[Groop]Gary v. The Ants (THEM! Part 2?)

[Gary Grossmann]

Hi Folks,

Not that anyone cares, but while Mark has possums in his backyard (they know
he's a Pogo fan), all other activities came to a halt when my home came
under siege by ants.   Discovery of many ants in the house (the nasty biting
kind) and a small anthill right outside my mother-in-law's window lead to
the discovery of three VERY large anthills just outside my yard in the
diggleberries, with my house being in the center of the triangle they
formed.

This is the disadvantage of living in a semi-rural area.  The advantage is
you can dig and chop and do all sorts of strange things (like put duct tape
around your ankles to keep the ants out of your pants)  and no one can see
what a fool you are making of yourself.  So using shovel, maddox, ammonia
and lots of water, I attacked the problem in a manner that would make Groo
proud and the former anthills now look like a scene from a World War I
landscape after the winter rains (although I doubt they ever smelled like
lemon freshened ammonia).

If that doesn't work, I may have to ask our Brazilian Groopies if they can
send me a Giant Anteater!  That would show those little bas...(oops, sorry
Eric)..those little hmmm, well you know what I mean.   Hopefully they are
all drowned and in lemon freshened ant heaven and I can get back to various
tasks, such as sending out those magnets!  Take care -Gary G

PS  I guess if I really did it Groo style, I would have tried to burn them
out with gasoline and ended up burning down my house.