I took my dog for a walk early this evening. I needed to find somewhere to sit before I fell over when I came to an intersection of side streets. There was also a narrow strip of park down the middle of the street. I planned to sit on the curb. With all those curbs, there wasn't one single one that didn't have those crazy ants going like mad for as far down the curb as I walked, which was about half the length of the block. So I could not sit anywhere to rest.
I was only a couple blocks from home, but I live downhill from where I was. I'm much more unsteady without Treasure, especially downhill, so I was surprised to make it down the hill without falling over and rolling down the hill. I thought I'd rest a bit at the end of the hill where there's a church at the corner one block from my house. But those ants were everywhere there as well.
I managed to stumble home with Itty Bitty not wanting to end our walk. After resting a bit, I checked all over my yard for those ants and was relieved there weren't any. However, I think it is only a matter of time before they make it here. There were masses of them. That strip of park has a lot of nut trees and several homes have mulberry trees. I think the ants are gorging on those. Although where I saw mulberries all over the sidewalk, I only saw normal ants. Itty Bitty didn't like walking on the sidewalk where the sidewalk was almost invisible beneath all the ants feasting on mulberries. I didn't like stopping on the corner with all those tiny little psycho ants climbing on my shoes when I checked to make sure it was safe to cross. It feels like the middle of an ant invasion.
