Day 123: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: fumigate

I have a nice apartment in the basement of a house. Actually it is nice in the winter. My dog can easily go out the door straight into the back yard without having to climb the icy Canadian stairs, and my snow shovel and ice-melter are right outside my back door so I am safe and do not slip while walking to the car.

But the summers are a different story, because I have some visitors in town then. They are little black ants that have a sugar addiction.

If I use honey, and spill a drop, then come out of every crevice and crack and start eating it.

If I spill a piece of popcorn on the floor, they call out the troops, and carry it on their backs and transport it to a secure location for consumption.

I hate to kill any creatures, but at some point it is necessary to fumigate the whole apartment, all around the edges of the baseboards, to rid the space of the vermin!

It doesn’t seem to threaten their population however, or make them extinct, as in a few months they are back!

They think they are welcome to walk right in the door on my dog’s paws, or on my shoes, and then they make a return appearance and the whole process begins again anew.

In the summers, the dollar store sells ant hotels, so they can go on a vacation and never return!