Well, as I mentioned before, last week it was winter with four inches of snow. Today summer arrived; it’s about 80 degrees, sunny, and humid out there. The plants must be hopelessly confused (the ones that weren’t killed by frost anyway).
I woke up at 5:45 am with a really hideous headache. It hasn’t gone away, so I rested on the sofa for a couple of hours late this afternoon. I discovered that today’s burst of warm weather means that pretty much every insect in the area has realized that it’s time to awaken. Living in the middle of the forest has its down sides.
Various bugs are thunking against the windows, and the carpenter ants are on the move. In fact, Leto the large hairy hound just made his peculiar slurping sound as he snarfed a carpenter ant off the floor. He and Cami are the only ones who will mess with them. Cami, the white dog sometimes will eat carpenter ants, but she makes a huge production out of it. Apparently, they taste incredibly bad because Cami makes many outlandish faces as she tries to choke one down. She makes lots of faces anyway, but carpenter ant consumption is really quite an event. The cats, who gleefully eat spiders and flies, won’t touch carpenter ants. We all have our standards.
Speaking of the cats, while I was resting and the bugs were thunking, Troi the more agile of the two felines distinguished herself by actually catching and eating a fly. I did get up and kill two wasps that she was chasing, since it’s not good when (or more accurately, IF) she catches them.
A carpenter ant just crawled across my Wacom tablet. Ewwww! Okay, it’s an indisputable fact: job #1 this weekend is to set up the ant traps.