Wednesday night while I was sitting at the dining room table I noticed ants, with and without wings, gathering on the overhead lights, the table, and the rug in front of the french doors.  As the light outside faded the amount of ants increased in the area until they were soon falling on my head and crawling all over my project.  I grabbed up the fly swatter and started hit them but it was turning out to be a losing battle. So after complaining to Jay and getting a commitment from him to call someone in the morning I turned off the lights and went to bed.

The next morning Jay’s first call brought no positive results about when they could help  us.  So I called Steve, my neighbor, for the number of a company we had used before and they said someone would be out between three and four in the afternoon.

After the man’s arrival he said that the birds would have to be removed from the house for six hours to protect them.  So a hurry up call to my friend Edna resulted in a place to go for that time. The man also said we should go after the bees in the wall now before they start moving outside.

So I sat with Edna for about 5 1/2 hours when Jay called to say it was alright to return.  He had vacuumed the dead ants up and wipe down the baseboard.  But that still left the cages to wipe down, the toys and dishes to wash, and the  cage covers to wash and dry.  So the birds stayed in the travel cages until that was accomplished and reassembled with food and water added.  When everything was in place and the birds were in place, we had a sandwich to eat Jay went off to bed.  I waited up until the cage covers dried and got them in place.  It was around 2:00am when I finally got to bed.

But I learned a couple of things for when they come back to take care of the bees.  One is that the bird cages will go outside.  The covers put away, the animal dishes washed and covered, cat box emptied, and all the animals toys bagged and put away.  All the birds, animals, and us will have to go to Cindy’s house for the day, if she will have us.  The only saving grace about this tentative move is that maybe I’ll be able to use my deck this summer.

This evening I notice there are a few visitor still flying around the dining room light but hopefully they will be gone soon.

Take care everyone!