Monday, October 29, 2012

Sugar Ants

Wow it has been two weeks. I am settling in pretty good. Enjoying our daily walks and being able to sleep in the bed with mom and dad. It is a bit of a learning experience. Everyone is so less strict here! I can even go into the restaurants so I guess no health code to speak of :-)


We are combating sugar ants in the kitchen. They are persistent little buggers. Mom read that if you mix Borax and sugar and peanut butter it will kill the nest. But we have not found any Borax yet. Also corn meal kills them if you leave it out for them to eat and powdered sugar and baking soda. We are going to go get baking soda today.  Wiping the counters with vinegar or bleach constantly is supposes to help and seems to keep them down but we learned you have to have a special rag only for that if you use the dish rag it does not work because the dish rag becomes contaminated with sugars from the dirty dishes so all your doing is spreading around sugar when you wipe with a dirty dish rag. It sure inspires one to keep the kitchen clean anyway!

Other than that there really seems to be less bugs than there are back home that come into the house. A rare fly and I saw a little dead beetle once. I think that the lizards that live in the house maybe eat them all. They certainly are fun to watch, the lizards that is!


So as for people being less strict, there are so many things here that are different. I do not know if there is any electrical, building or plumbing code here at all. I don't think so. We were told that people leave there homes unfinished so they do not have to pay taxes because you do not have to pay taxes until your home is finished, so there are a lot of what look like unfinished homes here.

The neighbors house has the sink and shower water draining right on to the ground outside the house. Everything is just kind of hap hazard here. There are some really nice homes but there are also a lot of what we would consider shacks. Broken down and patched up with whatever is available. We can only imagine the plumbing and electrical in these homes.

The weather is still great we are getting used to the heat and it is actually quite cool at night and in the morning. It is still getting hot in the afternoon but not unbearable and we notice we are drinking way less water now than we were when we first came. I can actually see where once we have been here a few months we will need a jacket when it is chilly LOL 'chilly' hehe



We are off to the market again today. Have to get some fruit and some veggies for the chicken stew tonight. Plus we are out of rice so need to pick up some more rice.


Anyhoo off to get ready for the market!

Sniff ya later!

1 comment:

  1. Love your blog...
    you seem to be quite the accomplished Yorkie!

    My Husband and I are heading down in February to look for properties. We plan to move down in a couple of years with our two puppies (a Havanese and a Standard Poodle). I hope to get some good insider information from your entries before we head down for good. Especially from a furkid's perspective.

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