baby ants! they’re totally full grown. but they’re tiny! cutest ants ive ever seen, and there are some nasty fat ants I gawk at every day. those ones are like the water buffalo of ants. but these little tinies are like, bryan’s dog small/cute. 

so one day, Anu and I were trying to map out the communication that goes on between the valvemen and other parts of the water board by using… post-its. you know, to be VISUAL, and help ourselves see what was going on. because its so damn confusing what goes on.. everything runs on its own weird non-system and differently everywhere. too hard to keep track of in your head. 

it took a while to finally go out and buy post its, so it felt pretty good to stick em up on the walls for our map. and these ants that were moving across the wall.. i tried to leave them alone as much as I could. 

but we couldn’t figure out how to draw the lines of communication. painted wall… no white board… trying to find string somewhere in the house… nothing small enough that could get stuck on a wall… until i realized we had floss. 

PROBLEM SOLVED YO. PROBLEM. SOLVED. up goes the floss with the puddy, connecting these post-it valvemen like maddd. we end up with like 4+ lines of floss going in and out of each post-it node to indicate calls. and we were nearly finished mapping what we knew when… these ants. 

they had stopped moving sideways?

and 10 or 15 of them had kind of stopped where the floss cut off their trail mid-way across the wall. and then more came. and a few more. and they started spreading out along the line. hahaha. 

i look at anu and im like. wait….. give me that.. is there.. is there mint on the floss?… is this mint-coated floss? 

:) it was. we were feeding our gorgeous visual communication map to the baby ants. haha :) I thought you guys would enjoy so I snapped a picture before tearing it down :)

my coworker says their edible because they dont have bones. :) Emily sometimes lets them in to clean up the cockroaches killed overnight. ha :)