*sniff* Ah, I love the smell of Quick Match Charcoal in the Evening -

[kyburg]

I got out the Weber kettle and made dinner. Hotcha.

Hamburgers, quarter pound hot dogs, the works. I smell like charcoal smoke and it's sweeter than incense.

And I discovered the ants have a back door into my kitchen. Terminix be damned.

So I tried something. I took some ground cinnamon and made a paste with a little water and jammed that stuff into the crack the ants were coming in. Little buggers hated the stuff and the ones left are wandering aimlessly - it's so ghetto, it's not funny and smells like cinnamon toast, which is not all bad - I'll let you know the verdict tommorrow.

I'm all out of Raid. If this works, it goes over on poor_skills.

Comments

For a change of scent...

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

try peppermint oil or peppermint extract - that's what they used at the daycare center my younger kids went to. Non-toxic, but it overwhelms the ants, who breathe through their sides, like many insects.