Ant Invasion! Four Full Months in Our New Home

The pesky ants haven't left our home. We managed to ward off a huge amount of them with a mix of homemade and store bought insect repellant. We realized that you need different solutions for different ant varieties. We got most of them, but a particular set of ants destroyed our brand new split type aircon. Good thing it's still under warranty, so the service center changed the mother board at no cost. Whew! 

Just realized we've been in our new home for four months now. The hot summer season forced us to find a cooler space to stay during the afternoons. We fixed up my craft room and it's been the perfect spot in the afternoons. 

I was stuck in the bedroom since I got my booster shot. Finally got out today and stayed in the basement. I also checked out my plants and saw they've been happy with the rain. I'll have to find the energy to re-pot some of the veggies to allow them to grow more. 

We were sad to find out after the heavy rain from the past few days that the chicks were gone. Miggy thinks it's due to a predator (likely a cat). They were yellow vented bulbuls and we're really sad they didn't survive. Miggy said that those birds produce chicks thrice a year, so we'll see if they make more in July.

Four months in our new home. Four months of new memories. It's a new quarter, let's see where the hot summer months bring us. We were hoping to do a day trip to Tagaytay, but with the recent phreatomagmatic eruptions we decided to delay it. Maybe we'll go North, we'll see :)

#BeKind #StaySafe #VoteWisely

Giant Ant and Lechon!

Early this morning while visiting my plants on the balcony a giant ant appeared! It just sauntered out from under one of the tomato plant pots and explored the area. I'm not sure how it got to our balcony which is more than 200 feet from the ground. I asked my friends what it was and one said it was a Japanese carpenter ant and another said it was just an ordinary giant ant.

I've been watching AntsCanada on YouTube and the first thought that came to mind was it's probably someone's pet! Haha. I can't imagine how an ant can climb over twenty floors. We haven't gone out for a long time too so the only way it could've reached our balcony is go up the side of the building from the ground or it may have escaped it's pet cage. I was planning to catch it and ask around if anyone lost their ant! It was gone by afternoon though. Bye-bye Mr. Ant.

Sweetie surprised me and ordered lunch from a lechon place from Novena. Oh my it was so makasalanan! He also ordered some lumpia since I was craving for it the other day. I was looking forward to eating lunch I shared with my colleagues that I was going to eat lechon. I was surprised when they all knew what lechon was and shared my excitement haha.

I have happy lechon memories. That time when I was a child and my Dad with my neighbor Titos tried to roast a huge pig by the seashore. They didn't expect that it would take 12 hours to roast the whole pig! They started in the morning and we got to eat the lechon late at night already. Then there was the time right after the GSA summit in 2013 when we celebrated the end of the event by eating at that famous Cebu lechon place across SM Cebu. And then that time when everyone went hungry in my Dad's law office because I declared that the tiny roasted pig was kawawa. They had to hide in another office so they could cut up the lechon de leche. 

Tomorrow Singapore is starting phase 2 of the reopening. I've been home now for 103 days. I've only gone out for really essential stuff like doctor appointments, the move and the home turnover. Physiotherapy re-started two weeks ago and I do that once a week now. We decided to stay put for now and see how things go after two weeks. Still need to take a lot of precautions to be sure.


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