You know, some people just have a remarkable ability to irritate me. There is a couple that bought one of our dogs whom we loved very much. (He was absolutely gorgeous and had the sweetest temperament.) Anyways, they say he is now having seizures. We have never had seizures anywhere in our lines but seizures aren't hereditary and can pop up randomly in dogs.
These people really love the dog but keep complaining to me and mom constantly! I told them that we would absolutely take the dog back but he says no, they love him, it's just getting so expensive with the vet bills! It's like the expect me to pull some answer out of my ass that will cure whatever it is they think he has. I'm getting really fed up with them. Honestly, I think they are stressing him and creating problems in their own heads that he doesn't really have. Anything he does is surely a symptom for something else wrong with him. Just because I am often tired, easily distracted and fidget a lot does not mean I have ADHD. Just because Mac barks at a door slamming or runs around like a maniac does not mean he is having constant seizures! Why are people so damn irritating? I want my Macaroni back and them to go away.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Ants
So we got an entire new garden put in several weeks ago. Our old one was essentially a jungle so my mom paid a hefty sum and now our garden is like amazing thanks to a professional landscaper. Well, when the three guys were tearing through one of our gardens they came upon this huge ant hill under the tree, hidden by all the other plants. So of course when they started clearing everything away they found the hill, took the chunk out and all the ants went crazy. At least they were gone...right? Nope.
Then like two weeks ago I was watering everything (which I have to do every day since the plants' roots aren't all established) and our tree is always leaning really far over. The guys had put a sort of bungee around it to help support the two trunks. So as I'm watering I noticed along the trunk near the bottom it almost looked like sawdust. I was thinking what the heck so I took a twig and scraped it away. Guess what happened to be underneath all the sawdust...yep, ants. They simply moved from under the tree to inside the tree. I thought it was originally just near the ground but they had actually gotten all the way into the tree like five feet up! That whole part of the trunk was practically hollow. So I got out the bug killer and sprayed it liberally all over the place and thus they were gone again...or so I thought. *again*
Now this morning I was out watering again and as I had the hose soaking one of the trees I was wandering around picking weeds from the various gardens. I went back near the tree (the same one the ants had gotten into previously) and started to pick some weeds near one of the plants not far from said tree. There was some weed that has the rediculous root system which goes really deep in the ground and is near impossible to get up, know what I'm talking about? Yeah, well I tried to pull it up and didn't get all of the roots. So, I stuck my fingers down in the dirt, went down under some of the roots and tried to yank it up that way. To my surprise it came up fairly easily. That was when I noticed I was holding a large clump of dirt and roots in my hand with hundreds of ants swarming all over it and the ground. Needless to say I freaked. I jumped probably about a foot in the air and back and screamed HOLY SHIT! Yes, it was loud.
I got a paper towl and held the clump then threw it over the hill into the woods. I went back to the garage and got my handy bug killer and sprayed it liberally all over the area where the ants were still swarming. They're buggers too because they bite. They may be tiny but I've had plenty that climb up on my leg or arm and give me a nip. After that I take great joy in rolling them into a little ball. Bite me, I kill you. They never learn... So now this is the third time I've had to battle these nasty little things. I don't mind ants, just not in my garden swarming all over the place and trying to bite me. That bothers me. I am still getting goosebumps as I think about the swarm I was holding in my bare hand. It gives me the freakin' heeby-jeebies! lol
Then like two weeks ago I was watering everything (which I have to do every day since the plants' roots aren't all established) and our tree is always leaning really far over. The guys had put a sort of bungee around it to help support the two trunks. So as I'm watering I noticed along the trunk near the bottom it almost looked like sawdust. I was thinking what the heck so I took a twig and scraped it away. Guess what happened to be underneath all the sawdust...yep, ants. They simply moved from under the tree to inside the tree. I thought it was originally just near the ground but they had actually gotten all the way into the tree like five feet up! That whole part of the trunk was practically hollow. So I got out the bug killer and sprayed it liberally all over the place and thus they were gone again...or so I thought. *again*
Now this morning I was out watering again and as I had the hose soaking one of the trees I was wandering around picking weeds from the various gardens. I went back near the tree (the same one the ants had gotten into previously) and started to pick some weeds near one of the plants not far from said tree. There was some weed that has the rediculous root system which goes really deep in the ground and is near impossible to get up, know what I'm talking about? Yeah, well I tried to pull it up and didn't get all of the roots. So, I stuck my fingers down in the dirt, went down under some of the roots and tried to yank it up that way. To my surprise it came up fairly easily. That was when I noticed I was holding a large clump of dirt and roots in my hand with hundreds of ants swarming all over it and the ground. Needless to say I freaked. I jumped probably about a foot in the air and back and screamed HOLY SHIT! Yes, it was loud.
I got a paper towl and held the clump then threw it over the hill into the woods. I went back to the garage and got my handy bug killer and sprayed it liberally all over the area where the ants were still swarming. They're buggers too because they bite. They may be tiny but I've had plenty that climb up on my leg or arm and give me a nip. After that I take great joy in rolling them into a little ball. Bite me, I kill you. They never learn... So now this is the third time I've had to battle these nasty little things. I don't mind ants, just not in my garden swarming all over the place and trying to bite me. That bothers me. I am still getting goosebumps as I think about the swarm I was holding in my bare hand. It gives me the freakin' heeby-jeebies! lol
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