Ants Are My Friends

If anyone comes across this site who knew me forty years ago or so you might remember me as the guy sitting on the playground feeding the ants and watching them build their hill.

I still watch the ants. They are my friends. Every year around this time we start to see a lot of ant hills pop up here in Arizona. I like to watch them. They’re very busy.

This is a nice hill right on my driveway. I’ve been watching it every day. I drove over it a few times by accident. Sorry, ants.
Yesterday they were busy! They had a whole construction crew working all day long. It was a relentless stream of pebbles coming out of there.
I still feed them. These were some weird croutons I found in the pantry. They were gone by the end of the day. Probably a bird ate the bigger pieces. The ants at my hill weren’t very interested. They seemed more like builders than food-finders.
It would be fun to get my borescope camera down there. I don’t think it would get very far though.

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