Sudokuaholics Anonymous 8

Welcome to SA8. I hope that it loads faster and has less problems for you.

PUFF, PUFF

I am here with the coffee pot and my chair. whew, long trip!

My Ant Story

Was a good topic last of SA7, lets bring it on over.

We often get ants come in the house in really dry weather, hunting water I suppose. This particular year, I had not seen any, was not thinking of ants. I had my shower, went to my closet and got a clean pants and shirt, and put them on. Something itched, then another, then something HURT. I come out of the clothes to find ants all on the INSIDE, and they were biting me. Back into the shower fast to wash them away! OUCH, I still remember that.

I had to use an ant killing spray what was not oil based so it would not stain my clothes, and spray the entire closet heavily, and close it up for 243 hours. THEN I had to wash every item in the closet and I have a LOT of clothes.

For the longest, I shook and looked inside my clothes before putting them on. Sorry to say, it is not something I kept up long enough, like forever. It happened a second time, but this time, I knew the problem much sooner and only got bit once.

Hi, the room is looking a bit bare at the moment
Not too many people have found their way here yet

Ouch MizT not nice been bitten by ants.
I once, while away caravanning left a sweater in the awning overnight, when I put it on the next day I was bitten by a spider. Said spider didn't live long after that. I don't normally kill them but being bitten was a bit much

Brenda, glad you found your way to the new meeting room. I hope the others will find it today as they check in. If not, we will send out search parties to hunt them!

It has been quiet round SA over the last couple of days, but SA7 did well to last as long as it did. I didn't seem to get the same problems as everyone else (touching wood)

Good morning all! Surprised to see SA8! Welcome everyone!

Sunny and warm, 34F. There was a dusting of snow this morning. It's been a very quiet February. Can't believe March is just around the corner!

MizT, yikes regarding the ants in the pants! That really creeps me out. Would not like to experience that!

Hi Stella, nice to see you found us. I was surprised too when I found we had a new page.People must have had problems with our old home.

Stella our February, at the beginning of the month, has been the roughest one we have had for many years but the latter part has been quite warm. Spring flowers are now in bloom. The daffodils in my garden are quite tall and buds are showing. In a neighbours garden they are in full bloom

What I cannot get my head around is the fact that we are at this stage of the year again. It doesn't seem that long since we were commenting on similar things last year. Does this mean I'm getting old

Nothing here will be budding for at least another month, at least around my house. Even though we didn't get much snow this month, we still have about 6 inches on the ground! And yes, we're all getting old!

We cannot be old Stella because 'old people' don't know how to use computers or so some kids think

Hi everyone. Got your message, MizT, so I thought I had better bring my chair along.

Everybody. Brought my chair along to get comfy..... maybe I need instead.

I still have lots of snow because it snowed about 4 inches last night. No flowers here for a long time. Wasn't I complaining about the snow never ending about this time last year?

Glad so many have found our new home! Welcome to all.

Yes a few were reporting problems, so I just decided a new room might be in order. Old one served us well for 17,000 posts, that is a lot.

Hopefully this one will last a little longer so we can break records again

RENA, hope the snow does end soon for you. You might not want to hear, but it is currently 61 degrees, headed for 70 degrees today. I have my back door open to the breeze.

I am off to buy car tags. It is usually so much easier here then where I once lived. Hope it is easy today, it is almost the end of the month, but being Thursday, well, I hope to miss those who must wait till Friday and pay day to buy theirs.

I have another ant story (besides the chocolate chip cookie episode) I was living in Costa Rica at the time, training horses for a living. A couple of friends and I decided to explore some trails through the mountains and headed off on horseback early one morning. Several hours later, we came across a mountain stream and decided to stop for a bite to eat, and a cool drink for all. We dismounted and sat beside the stream with our lunches. Suddenly, I was on fire. I had sat on top of a nest of Fire Ants. I must have been bitten a hundred times on my butt!!! I had to pull off my clothes and my friends had to help me brush off all those ants. The 4 or 5 hour ride to get home was agony.

Thanks for the reminder, MizT. I need to get my truck registration renewed.

Sad but true, I, too, have an ant story. when Amber was about six months old, Taus decided to buy a bigger TV. It was too big for the living room in the cabin, where we were living at the time. Taus decided to make it bigger. When he tore out the wall he discovered it was full of carpenter ants. Those suckers are huge. After the addition was finished, I had Amber on the floor on a blanket. Well, there were a few ants still wandering around and one happened to wander too near Amber. You know how babies put everything that they can pick up in their mouths, but the ant didn't want to get in Amber's mouth and attached itself to her lip. It didn't seem to traumatize her too much because it certainly wasn't the last one she tried to eat.

Heidi, how is the headache this morning?

Under control. Thanks for asking.

I need to get going..... IH is gone for the day, so I've been lazy. I need to have brekkie (after 1 pm), feed hay to the cows, then go on a hay run.

Rena.... I think I found them.

Have a good day Heidi

..... I am no longer going to try to avoid getting s. Be warned.

Yay, I made it on to the first page!!!!

Morning all!

Ants in pants, ants on lips... ouch!

Good morning all my SA friends. Thank you Tricia. I know I had trouble yesterday.
Heidi, go for the TOPPs. I think I have had more than my share the last couple of SA's.

Me too June!

Thank you for reminding me....

Thank you MizT!!!

I have had a busy couple of days and now have today to catch up with shopping, gardenimg and H work.

The Pennant season has started for Bowls. That means Tuesdays and Thursdays. Although I decided not to play I put down to be a reserve and I also umpire when our teams play at home. I think I am more involved than if I had been part of a team. I played Tuesday and umpired yesterday!

Ally is home today. Although they can drive me crazy, I miss them when they're gone... Plus I want to know how she coped!!

June, that's a bit like when the kids play sport, except that with kids it is multiplied by how many you have.