Lance: Well, you do keep me expanding my comfort zone and have greet suggestions here. Thanks! Mis-matches socks? How about jeans with two different =colored legs. And did you know I have blew eyes? — one blew east and one blew west.

J.D. Bite them back. You make me laff a lot!

Tess: Once you’ve experienced them you get what the whole kerfuffle’s about indeed. May their bites forever remain a mystery (and never a misery,) to you.

Suzen: I bet in heaven fire ants are the most amazing chefs, or something. Must be a place for them in a master plan, yes. What do you think it could be?

Dr J: My husband used to pour gas down their nests and light them. To direct new-comers to out place we just had to tell them to look for the house with all the smouldering spots in the yard. Now we just leave them alone. And wear shoes outside at all times.

Aimee: Bad, bad bugs. Hope you never encounter them either, tho you will no doubt see them when you and I are sipping margaritas in the sunset, pondering the illusion of time’s passing.

VeRonda. It was a moment for me to count my blessings. And a learning experience to never trust the innocent-appearing grass here.

She: Hello and welcome!! Sorry I got behind in my comment responding for a while (that does happen to me from time to time.) And sorry you know first-hand about these little buggers. The bites between the toes are The Worst, I think. And the ones on the butt.

Teahouse, lovely blossom: It was just a searing pain, but I saw no ants. Then my arm got all white patches on it and started to swell. Then I started to itch. Then breathing got bit labored. And my skin got bright, bright pink. But I gud now!

Jannie, you naughty thing!

Snag: I need to think about making it a part of my lifestyle. I think it’s caffeinated, but I need to check on that. As I already have enough caffeine a day.

Lynn: Were you aware that it was on ships that landed in Mobile in the early 1900s, from South America that fire ants came? Blame it all on Alabama!! Red tea, eh? I must look into that, thanks!

Debbie: You’ve been bit, I take it? Ouchie.

Mia: May you never get a bite. And yes, still so happy here about her tooth gone, and the one beside it soon ready to jump ship.

Julie: Lynn mentions green tea is a bit bitter for her, so I would most probably, yes chock it full of cream, sugar and such. And wash it down with fries, a burger and a thick slice of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

Jannie: Still can’t get over the moldy walnut.

Meredith: Hi and Welcome, so humbled at your visit and comment. Thank you! Yes, exactly — you feel like you’ve been burned. Poor hubby. And poor you on the swollen leg — I know Exactly what you mean on that. Sucks.

Karen: Educational here, eh? They’re really nasty, you’d never think in this day and age in this fine nation of ours something like these could exist — in urban America. Yet they do. And they suck.

Cath: (Wow, last comment!) And did you know they can survive quite long without food and water. Incredible little surviving monsters.

back to bed soon. Kelly’s home with a low fever today.

No trail for me but I shall attempt 700 buttock lifts and 10 bicep curls this afternoon.