Army Ants, Lazy Cats, Clean Dogs & Tico Bingo

Today was a little different ... Roy, fixing to work on the new septic system, calls to me "baby, you need to look at this" ... as you know, I hear this alot!  Slipped on some sandals and walked out back to see what.  ARMY ANTS!  They are known in these parts as "cleaner" ants, as they swarm over the property, consuming all the stuff we DON'T want around ... dead bugs, live bugs if they can catch them, bug eggs, scorpions, ect.  These photos don't really show how MANY of them there were because they also bite and I didn't want that to happen twice!  Suffice it to say that the back of the house was BLACK!

Not really wanting to stick around to see if they swarmed INSIDE, we grabbed the dog  ... more on him later ... hopped in the "jumpzuki" and headed to Steve & Brenda's house.  Got as far as Soda San Luis and remembered that we needed to be home for Ferreteria Los Angeles to deliver materials, so, sigh, turned around and went back home.  By this time, the ants were all.over.the.place ... but it didn't last long, thankfully.  

When the army moved on, Roy decided that he could do a little septic excavation, and then discovered that he needed a few more plumbing parts, so off to Ferreteria I went, bought parts and came back home to bathe the (rather) stinky dog.  It was a "two man job", so I don't have photos, but we, together, got 'er done.  Wiley smells sooooo much better now and behaved better than expected!

Kiki, however, was totally underwhelmed by the whole thing.

The other day, our new acquaintance, Hymie, stopped by to sell us tickets to the local church fundraiser bingo game.  Now, I am NOT a bingo person, but WTF, so Brenda & I decided to go (the guys were TOTALLY not going to go with).  Grabbed a quick, post dog bath shower and off to la iglesia for fun & games.  

Bingo is a little different here as:  a) you had better know your numbers in spanish and b) they don't EVER say "B - 12", just doce (12).  Then, of course, when it is "4 corners", or whatever and you don't understand ... still fun and we were the only gringos (gringas) there!  I hear there is a really HOT game in San Juan from time to time which we will probably hit when it next happens.  

So, that's life "en el campo" today ... exciting, no?

Tenga Paz,

K