Great!

Just as I was seriously considering buying adorable picnic-themed ant salt and pepper shakers, I read in the local news that southeastern Virginia is under a quarantine because of FIRE ANTS. Luckily, we don't actually live in southeastern Virginia, but we're pretty darn close, and the lifelong scars on my legs prove that me and the fire ants are not exactly allies. Scram, ants! But when you flee, please consider moving east-ward into the Atlantic, instead of south into my beloved North Carolina, or west toward ME.