A few weeks ago the power went out at night. I was reading via
headlamp and saw what looked to be a piece of poop climbing the wall. I
took a closer look and realized it was about two dozen ants carrying a
chocolate Frosted Flake.
Here they are rounding the corner that goes under the stairs. I found myself actually cheering them on.
I was so distracted taking pictures and videos that I forgot to throw away the Frosted Flake. It's probably somewhere upstairs being made into a little ant village.
This morning I woke up to find thousands of ants crawling all over this pair of shoes. (This picture was taken after beating both of them against the wall.) I looked inside and realized that they thought this was their new home.
I’ve yet to find packs of hot chocolate here, and a regular-sized box of candy canes costs $10.
I tried to have a bit of self control and wait until a special occasion. Yesterday I had a MASSIVE craving for something chocolaty and minty.
Occasion enough for me, I went to the kitchen to plug in the water heater.
I was almost too excited to notice that the heater was…moving. Crawling, to be exact, with hundreds of thousands of ANTS.
inside, outside, upside, downside...
Momentarily, my craving was replaced by repulsion. The following pictures document the disassembling and cleaning of the heater. This involved an inappropriate fork (do you spy?), hair cutting scissors, and GAZILLIONS of ants.
After everything was clean, I was afraid the re-assembly process would be a bit tricky. Thankfully, I had taken lots of pictures of the dis-assembly and was able to put the heater back together relatively quickly.
These are the words I desperately wish I could type. (lemonysnicket.com)
The first piece I tried, I put in backward which sealed the lid tightly; I was unable to pry it open to put the rest together. The remaining pieces littered the counter.
Wrong. Totally wrong.
Ant-repulsion having been taken care of, my chocolate-mint craving came back full force. The rice cooker proved to be a good water-heating choice.
Success!
And what of the broken heater? This guy pried the lid off in 30 seconds and had the whole thing put back together before dinner.
