When we lived in Venezuela, ants were everywhere. Someone told us there was sugar in the mortar in the walls. I don’t know if that was true, but it certain was true if we left any sugar at all on the counter in the evening, there’d be a teeming bunch of ants working on it the next morning.
I can’t even imagine those sugar ornaments in that environment! But in the cold intermountain west where the bugs die every winter, pretty cool! (Though as a kid I’d've found it impossible not to eat them all…)
Kind of like making the sugar Easter eggs that used to be so popular. Nothing like extending it to Christmas! What about Halloween? Could we do pumpkins and ghosts?
When we lived in Venezuela, ants were everywhere. Someone told us there was sugar in the mortar in the walls. I don’t know if that was true, but it certain was true if we left any sugar at all on the counter in the evening, there’d be a teeming bunch of ants working on it the next morning.
I can’t even imagine those sugar ornaments in that environment! But in the cold intermountain west where the bugs die every winter, pretty cool! (Though as a kid I’d've found it impossible not to eat them all…)
Comment by Paul — December 2, 2011 @ 10:39 am
Can you eat them after Twelfth Night?
Comment by Mark B. — December 2, 2011 @ 11:30 am
Kind of like making the sugar Easter eggs that used to be so popular. Nothing like extending it to Christmas! What about Halloween? Could we do pumpkins and ghosts?
Comment by Rosemary — December 2, 2011 @ 11:36 am