Spare Us!
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, February 25, 2011
We recently found carpenter ants in our house, so an exterminator came and baited for them. Since the bait does much of its work when the ants take it back to the nest, we were instructed not to touch or spray any ants that we saw around the house.
Recently Camilla, sitting on the floor, saw one and yelled for me to come and squish it.
“I can’t,” I said. “They told us not to kill them.”
A second later, my husband and I were treated to our daughter’s best scornful face (tilted head, raised eyebrows) as she told me, “Silly Mama! Ants can’t talk!”
But, as a friend of mine commented when I related the story: if the ants could talk, that is probably what they would say.
Summer Kitchen Vermin
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Thursday, April 15, 2010
A few weeks ago when the ants invaded, the sight of one would send Camilla shrieking to find me so I could kill it for her.
This afternoon she noticed one on the carpet and informed me of its presence. I armed myself with a tissue, then turned around and laughed. Rather than waiting for me to do the dirty work, my daughter was squatting on the floor, hopping after the ant as she blithely attempted... READ MORE
Tick Talk
Posted by Danielle Bean in Health on Wednesday, April 07, 2010
The ticks are back.
I’ve picked a few off of the kids so far this season, and already I feel myself itching all over.
I have always considered ticks a nuisance. A pretty gross one at that. Living so close to the woods like we do, we see quite a number of them each year. Really, though, I always thought of them as just a nuisance.
But this past January, my 6-year-old Gabrielle was diagnosed with Lyme disease.... READ MORE
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