Ants in the Tub

Dear Readers,

As you may have read earlier, we had bugs in our Penne pasta. Well now we have ants in our tub. So on Saturday night, dad was sweeping the master bathroom because there were some ants on the floor. (There’s always ants. Somewhere. When we got into our house there were ants all over my bathroom floor coming out of the corner under my sink. Most of them were dead though, which is kind of weird. There were also ants flying out of Nathan and Ben’s air conditioner, and then there were ants in the kitchen because one of the boys left a cookie out overnight. So there’s ants everywhere but this is by far the worst…) So he decides to turn on the tub to clean it out because it was all dusty. He turns on the water and when it got high enough, he turned on the jets. As soon as he did, a whole clump of ants and eggs shot out and hit him on the leg. The water was still filling up, and shooting out of all the jets were tons of ants and their eggs. The water was full of them. He turned on the shower head connected to the tub and sprayed down the sides where some of the ants were crawling up. He opened the drain and it drained out all the ants and their eggs. But we decided to do it one more time in case there were any left over. There was. We filled up the tub again (and it’s already gross because the water’s all yellow) and he turned on the jets again, and more ants came out. It was by far the grossest thing I’ve seen here. We joked about how if mom had tried to take a bath and turned the jets on, she would have screamed that she was going home. But by how many ants were coming out of the jets, anyone in their right mind would have screamed that if they were in a tub full of ants and eggs. We got some insecticide at the store for the ants in my bathroom and kitchen, and it was almost gone so we used up the rest of it on the master bathroom. I guess we need to put that on our shopping list; more insecticide. I swear it’s like we live in a jungle.

With all my heart, Kayla