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Weird things tend to happen to me and I've no idea why.  Like the time I was in Costa Rica with Patty Chance and we were out looking for frogs to photograph at night.  I heard one and kept telling Patty he must be VERY close.  He's so LOUD with his croaking!!

That's when I felt the movement in my hair ... he was actually sitting on my shoulder croaking into my ear.  Not sure whether he was poisonous or not, I freaked out just before he jumped to this leaf.  Well hello little hitchhiker!!  I'm pretty sure I lost one year of my life that night.

So I shouldn't have been surprised yesterday to have an encounter with an ant.  A BIG ant.  I would show you a picture of the real thing, but he's in a million pieces on the concrete patio.

There I was, minding my own business spraying weeds, when YIKES!!  Something bit me on my middle toe.  I quickly smashed my foot with my OTHER foot.  YIKES AGAIN!!!  It bit me one more time.

That got my attention and he was immediately throttled.  As I looked around, there was a nest of them, each about a quarter inch long and all one solid reddish color.  The bite irritated me, but I kept on spraying.

In five minutes the pain became like none other.  My foot starting throbbing with horrible pain in my toes.  What the heck?  By the time I got back in the house, it was swollen, fiery red and ridiculously painful.  Visions of Harrison Ford and Raiders of the Lost Ark flashed in my head.

Maybe I'm allergic .... I took a benadryl.  Good grief it hurt .... so I put an ice pack on it to dull the pain.  It didn't help one bit.  I finally propped my foot up high on the top of the couch and remained perfectly still.

It took well over an hour for the pain to finally subside.  I don't know what the heck those ants are, but that colony won't be alive much longer.  I'm usually live and let live (except for scorpions) but these guys have got to go!!

My plan for the afternoon was to get groceries (I made up a list this time and tacos are NOT on it) and to check out some toys for the zoo critters.  I ended up doing neither because when I put my shoes on, it hurt like I couldn't believe.

How boring .... I spent the day on the couch because of a lousy little ant.  That's it for me folks .....

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