[Sca-cooks] Cats and ants was ant trail::: was:::Re: ants

[silverr0se at aol.com]

Too true! I expect that almost all feline meditations are mistaken by us humans as napping!



Renata


-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] ant trail::: was:::Re: ants




Veering off topic but I thought you would like this ancient Zen koan and 
an old joke it is:

A monk asked Chao-chou, "Has the dog Buddha nature or not?" Chao-chou 
said, "Mu."

Which makes more sense when you know that "Mu" is the Chinese way of 
depicting dog sounds.  Essentially, he answered "Woof!"

So I expect Renata's cats to be sitting in meow-ditation!

Selene

Heleen Greenwald wrote:
> LOL Renata!
> Maybe your cats are Buddhist!
> Phillipa
> "My furs are not in storage, or draped across the bed,
> they're hanging from the cage door, waiting to be fed."
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:46 PM, silverr0se at aol.com wrote:
>
>   
>> Imagine a thin but solid?black, brown or red line (depending on  
>> your variety of ant) travelling across your house towards your  
>> kitchen. Then imagine your cats, if any, lined up along it, just  
>> looking when they could have been killing the dratted things!
>>
>> That's what it looks like at my house - it tells me it's time to re- 
>> do the boric acid powder!
>>
>> Renata
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Heleen Greenwald <heleen at ptd.net>
>> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Sent: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 6:37 am
>> Subject: [Sca-cooks] ant trail::: was:::Re: ants
>>
>>
>>
>> That sounds like a sure-fire way Huette, but I have never seen an ant
>> trail. I only ever see a couple of ants, just wandering around....
>> What does an ant trail look like?
>> Phillipa
>> "My furs are not in storage, or draped across the bed,
>> they're hanging from the cage door, waiting to be fed."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Huette von Ahrens wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> When I had problems with ants a couple of years ago, here is what I
>>> did that actually worked:
>>> I followed the trail back to the nest and put Grant's Kills Ants
>>> bait stakes near it, which
>>> are pet safe, unless your pets are ant sized.  I took penetrating
>>> ant and roach spray and
>>> sprayed all around the foundation on the outside of the house.  I
>>> repeated this every month for
>>> several months.
>>>
>>> When I get one or two ants [which usually means they are scouts], I
>>> spray them with windex, which
>>> burns the beggers up.  I also spray the windex around the area so
>>> that I can obscure their trail
>>> so no ants can follow it.  I spray the foundation again with
>>> penetrating ant and roach spray.
>>> And I put out more ant stakes around if I can't find the nest.
>>>
>>> Huette
>>>
>>> --- Heleen Greenwald <heleen at ptd.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I need an opinion please..... I have had ants in my kitchen and
>>>> bathroom (right above the kitchen) off and on since July. Every time
>>>> I think I have the problem taken care of, I find a few more. These
>>>> are the tiniest ants I have ever seen. They certainly don't look  
>>>> like
>>>> roaches. I keep all my food in Tupperware containers.  If I wash the
>>>> kitchen down with ammonia water tomorrow do you think that will take
>>>> care of these tiny ants... or should I use bleach water?  Or  
>>>> should I
>>>> call the exterminator?  Has anybody else dealt with tiny ants that
>>>> won't go away.  btw, I never have many ants at one time, never more
>>>> than 5, usually 1 or 2.
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> Phillipa
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