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Ant Season

October 5, 2020 2 Comments

By Joyce Adams

Along the kitchen windowsill they stream, in search of errant toast crumbs and specks of soft cheese. They circle a gravy drip, miniature wildebeest vying for drink at a muddy waterhole. A few brave loyalists carry cat kibble back to their queen.

What does Mother Nature have against ants? She provides meals for everything else: berries for the birds, grasses for the deer, our own sweet blood for the insatiable mosquito.

I’d much rather let in the deer, invite six-point bucks to nibble my houseplants. I will eventually kill all that is green anyway, including the peace lilies, resilient as weeds.

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  1. Janet Roberson says

    October 5, 2020 at 7:40 am

    What a comic picture painted with words! A relatable story. Who hasn’t witnessed home invasion by ants?

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  2. Michele Obenland says

    October 7, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    I can see a vivid picture of the scene so creatively described in the story!

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