![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
so last night i learned...
Sep. 28th, 2017 09:04 amYou know those solar lawn lights? The ones that are on stakes and you put them in your yard to light a path or whatever? WELL GUESS WHAT.
If the light shaft isn't sealed tightly to the stake, ANTS WILL MOVE IN. It's probably like the Space Needle to them.
And if you go out before the lawn mower guy comes, to pull the stakes out because the grass got pretty long and his mower will probably eat them, if you pull out a stake that is full of tiny tiny ants, what Mom used to call grease ants, the ants DON'T LIKE IT.
So I'm screaming and drop the stake on the driveway and am stomping the aluminum shaft flat and trying to GET THE ANTS OFF MY HAND and I may have mentioned the screaming, and the mower guy is ten feet away but he notices none of this because of the mower noise, and anyway there's not a lot he could do except say, Hey, you got ants on you there. It's not like he can come punch the ants.
Anyway, I need a new solar stake light.
Later mower guy came to the door to collect, which was fine except now for some reason the squirrels in the tree by the curb (its name is Rob, the tree not the curb) are SHRIEKING.
"The heck is their problem?" I say.
"It looks like they're..." he trails off, implying the squirrels are getting ready for fun pants time.
"Nah, that's a territorial noise, they're fightiSERIOUSLY, KNOCK IT OFF YOU GUYS!"
The squirrels stop shrieking.
"Is it the black one from our end of the block? He likes to pick fights." There's a very handsome sable squirrel that lives in one of their trees.
"Nah, he doesn't come down this far."
Now one squirrel is chasing another down the trunk trying to drive it off, but the other is doing the squirrel thing of just running to the opposite side of the trunk and making his pursuer even angrier.
"DON'T MAKE ME TRANQ YOU!" I shout at them, and give the mower man his $.
To sum up: The squirrels are going apeshit, the lawn guy is some kind of squirrel racist, ants exist, and I have become the sort of person who scolds wild animals.
If the light shaft isn't sealed tightly to the stake, ANTS WILL MOVE IN. It's probably like the Space Needle to them.
And if you go out before the lawn mower guy comes, to pull the stakes out because the grass got pretty long and his mower will probably eat them, if you pull out a stake that is full of tiny tiny ants, what Mom used to call grease ants, the ants DON'T LIKE IT.
So I'm screaming and drop the stake on the driveway and am stomping the aluminum shaft flat and trying to GET THE ANTS OFF MY HAND and I may have mentioned the screaming, and the mower guy is ten feet away but he notices none of this because of the mower noise, and anyway there's not a lot he could do except say, Hey, you got ants on you there. It's not like he can come punch the ants.
Anyway, I need a new solar stake light.
Later mower guy came to the door to collect, which was fine except now for some reason the squirrels in the tree by the curb (its name is Rob, the tree not the curb) are SHRIEKING.
"The heck is their problem?" I say.
"It looks like they're..." he trails off, implying the squirrels are getting ready for fun pants time.
"Nah, that's a territorial noise, they're fightiSERIOUSLY, KNOCK IT OFF YOU GUYS!"
The squirrels stop shrieking.
"Is it the black one from our end of the block? He likes to pick fights." There's a very handsome sable squirrel that lives in one of their trees.
"Nah, he doesn't come down this far."
Now one squirrel is chasing another down the trunk trying to drive it off, but the other is doing the squirrel thing of just running to the opposite side of the trunk and making his pursuer even angrier.
"DON'T MAKE ME TRANQ YOU!" I shout at them, and give the mower man his $.
To sum up: The squirrels are going apeshit, the lawn guy is some kind of squirrel racist, ants exist, and I have become the sort of person who scolds wild animals.
