🐾 making trax

 🐾  making trax or closing out July

that heat alert ends tonight. much more reasonable for 5 days

we went and picked up fish and chips. no cooking in here tonight
we have an ant problem, the black ants are sneaking in and of course, picked the kitchen as their new getaway spot. I've been puffing them w / diatomaceous earth. The theory has them taking the white sprinkling that they get back to the nest. The diatomaceous earth supposedly gets in their joints and cripples the movement.
However, the sprayed ones are crawling off and expiring in the kitchen [ mostly ]

for the next layer of prevention, I sprayed vinegar on the door sills and deck. Vinegar is going to break up their scent trails and besides the ants don't like the taste of vinegar.

we will keep trying

Highlights of the day. The After hours clinic at our Dr s office. The skinny. Showering after Mon fishing adventure, I touched a ' welt ' in my upper groin. Red and angry  I have been using alcohol to clean / Polysporin to control bacteria. 

I couldn't wait another day, in case the Dr was busy this week ( meaning waiting 5 days ) The office has 8 Dr s who take turns on the after regular day service.

I showed the Doc my picture of the offending infection. He asked questions then prescribed an antibiotic combo. His guess was a follicle irritation that bloomed