We now have at least three varieties of ant (small, medium, and LARGE, as it happens) trying to stake scout claims in various parts of our home and while we've escalated to baits we have not called an exterminator (who would place a larger bait in the ground near the house foundation) as we would have in the Missouri River valley I did consider it ... this is the time when one would consider it ... last night I contemplated my kitchen with murder in my heart but there is a family of striped chipmunks that live in the rock wall steps from our foundation and I would be wrecked if I somehow poisoned them We live on the side of a mountain Our mountain abuts a huge nature preserve It is we who live where the ants live I am not giving them the house but neither am I willing to salt the earth I guess this cohabitation is just how spring is gonna be EVERY YEAR but I still don't like it