About this time every year, we get ants in our house. Can’t figure out how they get in. Not big carpenter ants, which gross me out, and would have me calling the exterminator for lickity 
split. Our ants come in phases: first little ants, then tiny ants, then medium sized ants. Just when one size disappears, another kind takes it’s place.
We buy them little ant traps, and those eventually do the trick. But when they’re here, ants sure are a nuisance.
Here’s Charlie’s ode to ants.
Our Uninvited Critters
Well, I feel compelled to write
About our sorry, little plight
When spring is lovely as can be
And suddenly we start to see
Ants! They come up through the cracks
Ants! They’re crawling up my slacks
Goin’ for my TV snacks
Ants, they won’t let us relax
Such persistent little critters!
You could never call them quitters
No, they’re always on the go
Busy, busy, to and fro
Ants, how nice of you to greet
Me at the table where I eat
Breakfast wouldn’t be complete
Without one by my Cream of Wheat
Traps? Oh, we got traps galore
Positioned all around the floor
Each a tiny fast food shack
That all the savvy ants ignore
Ants, they’re in the bathroom, geesh!
Can’t I just sit here in peace?
What would peak their interest, so?
I don’t even want to know!
The pluses of these little critters?
Guess they’re not as bad as ‘skitters
Unlike ticks and other ick
Ants, they don’t give us the jitters
So am I grumpy, am I bitter
‘Bout our uninvited critters?
No, I’m issuing a warning:
Don’t you end up in my fritters!
That’s it for now. Catch you on the flip side!
Hear Ida Tell It: Ants, Ants, Ants
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June 17: The Moose in Me, the Moose in You!, Sable Lodge Retirement Community, 7:00pm, South Portland, ME
July 12: Makin’ Whoopie, Deertrees Theatre, 7:30pm, Harrison, ME
July 25: Book Reading, North Gorham Library, 7:00pm, Gorham, ME
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