The Peanut Ant

I have named a new class of Southern insect beasts: the Peanut Ants! Last night I was brushing my teeth when I looked over on the wall and saw what appeared to be a small peanut (still in it's shell) crawling up my wall. I went closer to investigate and realized that it was the largest ant I had ever seen! "You have gotta go!" I said as I whipped out my bug spray. (I've stopped using hairspray to kill bugs because it just wasn't being effective enough, and everything was getting really sticky.) It took a few sprays, but finally the peanut ant succumbed to the stuff and killed over. Thankfully he was the only one of his kind I saw in the house. Hopefully his buddies aren't camping out close by.

I ended up not going to Vicksburg last night, but I'm going to leave here in just a few minutes to head up that way. Angie, Matt, and I are going to go eat sushi tonight and watch a movie which should be super fun! Intern Mary wanted to go see "Harry Potter" last night (she's addicted), so Ben and I went with her, as well as a new intern named Meg. After the movie, Mary was really mad because she said it didn't follow the book at all, but the rest of us didn't know any better because we haven't yet read the books (it's on my "to do" list for some future time). I also haven't seen the other movies yet, so I was a little lost, but maybe sometime I can watch those too. Well, I'm going to hit the road. I'm planning to stop at the Grand Gulf Military Park on my way up to V-burg. It's located just west of Port Gibson, right on the river. That's the site where U. S. Grant and his troops cross the Mississippi River on their way up to Vicksburg. It should be a fun place to stop.