Insecticide

Ok so it's been a bit since I wrote a truly disgusting post...ie the one about the bugs in the flour. Though I have found more in other flour this blog is not about that.

We have been having a bit of a problem with ants recently. Just in the kitchen but they are everywhere and it has gotten out of hand. No matter how clean we keep it they are there. Also we have these "mouches blanches" that are eating up the few plants we have by the pool so I had Ross call the exterminators.

They came in full hazmat gear and after asking what kind of bugs were the problem (ants, "mouches blanches" and mosquitoes) sprayed outside the house. Then, they left. All was fine and I put Declan down for his nap and then went downstairs to start making dinner.

As I walk down the stairs and towards the kitchen I see something scurry past me, then another, then Juliette with a can of RAID. It is then I realized we had a problem. They were everywhere and with only one can of RAID we were defenceless really. As I stepped into the kitchen there were more and more of them. All scurrying farther and farther into the house and if they got to hiding we would never find them and surely they would multiply.

Juliette and I attacked the kitchen with the RAID and a big shoe and the broom and anything else we could find. We found out where they were getting in a plugged the holes with paper towel (The doors on houses in this climate do not seal as there is no need for it to keep the cold out so things get in twice as easily as in Canada) and then when the ones inside were dead and all the holes were plugged we waited. We could see them outside the kitchen door trying to escape their fate but for many of them it was too late.

I guess we had more than ants, we just didn't know it and when the exterminator came he sprayed and then dumped the remains of the insecticide down the little storm drain in the area beyond the kitchen and they came out and were trying to escape. Thank goodness Juliette was there with the RAID when the attack started or there would still be some hiding in the house.

Now, the outdoor area beyond the kitchen is a disgusting tiled mess littered with the remains of hundreds of cockroaches.