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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi Folks!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Well, after seeming to be on a downhill slide, the ants have made a big comeback. Everytime I think I've found the border of the colony, I discover frenzied ant activity deeper into the brush. The hauling away of 4-barrels full of ant hill, plus giving them huge doses of ammonia, sugared borax, and even the grits (!) did not kill them or kill them all, and obviously didn't kill the queen, who must be tucked away in some hidden chamber along with a bazillion larve. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Determined not to use commercial poison, there is only on thing left to do. I must employ the<B> Groo Method</B>. No, no, not attack them with swords. No, I mean<B> I must go on an unfettered rampage of wanton death and destruction wholely out of proportion to the perceived problem.</B> This weekend I will take my trusty maddox and shovel (better than swords for the task at hand) and chop and dig and dig and chop and haul away or destroy every last little section and chamber of the ant colony. I don't care if I end up with a 15 foot wide, 4 foot deep crater; the ants must die! Then maybe just for fun, I'll seal it off with some old bags of concrete I've had lying around for years. Ha! That'll show 'em. So that's it. This weekend. It's me or the ants!! (So if you don't hear from me, you'll know happenned.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Take care, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gary G. </FONT>
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