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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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You need to get in a professional. We did battle with black ants for four years. Carpenter ants. Every time we thought we had them, they would reappear. Then we called an exterminator who is REALLY good! He goes to Ft Wayne too if you want his number and he's very reasonable. He did ONE TREATMENT and we have not seen a carpenter ant on the premises since.
I agree with Colleen. We get these tiny little ants and I've used ant poison (liquid form) and then my husband sprinkles that powder around the border of the house. It works to a degree but never completely eliminates them. I DID go on an ant hill hunt once in my yard (that was fun!) and poured the Google-search solution of baking soda all over them. It definitely killed the ant hills but somehow ... they just keep coming.
These aren't carpenter ants, but the little tiny ones. Yeah, C, send me his number! We used Terminex last time but it wasn't cheap.
Before you spend a lot of money, try a little bottle of "Terro." I laughed at my husband when he brought it home because we'd tried so many things other years. But this stuff worked--at least for us. And you just use a tiny bit in an out of the way place that they travel through...a couple of days and they're gone.
Thanks, Rachel. I think I'll try that first.
we had the same thing with them
my brother got some ant bait call "TAT" it has no smell, it's a little round box you sit it out the ants go in and take it back to their nests and in 14 days they are gone! it work for us!
My mom actually got a long wooden stick, used the flame from our gas stove to set it on fire, and burned the ants. Not enough to kill them, but just enough so they would go back and warn the colony. We didn't have ants for years after that. However, my mom ordinarily uses cayenne pepper, and that's worked really well.
Ants come back to the same place every year. You have to spray the outside of the house first. Get ant traps to place where they are, but a good exterminator can do all that.
Another thing to do is put Murphy's Oil Soap on the thresholds where they come and around the edges of the cabinets. They won't go across it and it's safe for your dog. You have to keep applying it.
I hate seeing ants of any sort! They want your territory. Ugh. Can't live with them.
Ugh...ants. My mom called them sugar ants. We used red pepper and my dad had to reseal windows and doors. But, they CAN and DO come up through sink drains if you haven't gotten enough rain
Heebiee-jeebies!!
Thanks for all the advice! Annie, your mom is brilliant! I love that idea--only I'm picturing myself torching our house in the process . . .
OH! I read last year about using lavender oil mixed with water for ants. I've used it when they invade, and so far it's worked. Sorry to be so far behind, but it did work, and it's harmless to everything.
We used Borax powder and soon they quit coming.
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