Good Morning, Spring!
Posted By Cori on May 17, 2010
I have to say that I love living in Utah; I have found very few things I dislike about life here.
But these ant piles completely freak me out!
This one was by our garage door this morning when we stepped out for our walk.
It seems like they’re all over instantly. It’s so strange because there was nothing – nothing – there yesterday. These huge ant piles appear literally overnight.
Coming from AZ, I’m extremely nervous around large piles of ants – and I’ve rarely seen them in hills this big there. But in AZ, if they’re fire ants, they are very aggressive and their bite is painful. In Utah, the mounds are huge, but they don’t seem to care if we’re there or not.
As soon as Garret poured ant killer on them, they started pouring out of the cracks – by the thousands. It is disgusting! They climb all over each other and create big hills of ants. Yuck
By the afternoon, there will be no trace of them whatsoever.
It finally warmed up enough for me to feel comfortable planting our tomatoes. Remember those tiny little seeds?
A pull-out view of the whole garden at this point. We’ve been able to plant a lot of vegetables in this one little strip of bedding. The peas are coming along nicely – even starting to grab hold of the trellis. And now that it’s warmed up a bit the radishes are starting to grow. But the carrots are still very small – I haven’t even been able to thin them yet.
Being a rental property, we didn’t have any control over the care of the home and yard before we moved in last year. And, in all honesty, I don’t think it’s physically possible for us to get rid of all the dandelions in the time we will spend in this home. They are everywhere! I pull a few here and there, but they are evil little things. In AZ, we thought they were kind of pretty. HA! (Well, yeah, they kind of are – they just don’t stay pretty for long!)
This little picnic table is just so sad it’s adorable! It was never sealed, so the wood has turned to pulp. You can’t touch the table without coming away with a ton of tiny bits of wood all over. I keep my pots and herbs on it, though, and it works great for that. Kind of chaming.
Many of you may remember my herbs from last year… sad.
But this year we are getting tons of seedlings! Again, they waited until the sun came out but now they are sprouting in force. I’m considering grabbing a couple packets of some other herbs to try.
This is one of my favorite things about living in Utah – spring with snow still in the mountains. The bases of the mountains and the fields are all green with tiny purple wildflowers, but the peaks are still capped with snow.
And here in the valley, there are blooms and seedlings everywhere. So pretty!
Have a great Spring day!!
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Yuck!!! These piles of ants are just disgusting..even though I am not even afraid of them…. Looks very pretty down there in Utah…here in Germany, we finally had the first sunshine day since the beginning of May
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I can’t believe the ants!! That’s a huge pile!! I’ll second and third the ‘yuck’! You’re garden is cute…I’ll keep my fingers crossed that everything grows big and tasty!!
we had a pick nick table like that growing up, we used to seal it… but now it’s like that one, fuzzy. Ug the ants are crazy here, we need to get more poison for them. When we first moved in they found their way through our front door. I caught Olea trying to vacuum them up with my little dustbuster… I called Gary to have him pick up some poison on the way home. Thankfully it was a small trail compared to your pictures there. Love the pictures.