nothing like waking up early
sipping a warm cup of strong coffee
chewing on something that seems like a berry
your brain catching up
and wondering
why there is a berry in your cup
because you don’t normally
add berries to your coffee
and you spit it out
only to discover
that it was really a random giant ant not a berry
who climbed into your cup
in the time it took you to walk out of the room and back
and you have unwittingly shared your coffee with him
and he, with you.
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“it is not enough to be busy. so are the ants. the question is: what are we busy about?”
-henry david thoreau
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Good morning indeed 🙂
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yes!
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Beautiful
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))
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I suppose that’s a risk one takes when one decides to share someone else’s coffee before that someone else gives permission.
Happy morning!
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that’s it exactly, colleen –
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Perhaps he came from the P ant ry.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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ha!
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ewwwww nooo! horrible! xo
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yesss!
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Hahaha! (I can laugh because it didn’t happen to me)
Cheers!
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oh, i’m laughing now, but it was pretty gross at the time –
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Oh, Beth. This reminds me of when I found something crunchy in the top of my cappuccino. It was a fly!!! It took me years to order another cappuccino. 🙂
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i totally get that!
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Must be catching. This morning, I poured a little milk from a pitcher into my cereal, started eating, decided to pour some more and there was a fly doing the backstroke in the milk. ICK!
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the are all clearly on a summer break and enjoying their vacations fully –
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In some cultures that’s a delicacy, Beth. I always wanted to say that …
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yes, that’s true, but maybe if it’s planned )
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Unplanned it sure must have been a shock, Beth. Oh boy.
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Yes, by both of us)
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Uninvited guests are seldom welcome, and ants, as we know, have very limited conversational abilities and possibly lack the ability to swim so the kindness shown by your sucking it out of that heated liquid where they were on the verge of drowning and then spitting it out onto a safer terrain where it could recover his composure before resuming his duties will always be appreciated I am sure 🙂
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i must say that i’m pretty sure he did not regain his composure after being repatriated. or even his original form. )
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Cringing and laughing … A protein snack goes well with a cuppa!
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yummmmm)
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Wow, this one hit home – we’ve had Ant City as a result of several consecutive days of rain. I’m really careful what I drink. 🙂
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Great strategy)
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I think we can all relate to that in some way. Yikes!
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Yes!
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Nothing like a wake-up call from you. Thanks!
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Welcome!
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Gak!
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Yes!
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Living in tent as I do just now, today I removed three ants from my tea… Easier to see in there than in coffee! I’d say you’ve put your finger here on the closest thing to a universal experience short of birth and death! 😋
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Who knew?)
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I’ve shared some coffee with the stink bugs we have here. They don’t make a stink unless they feel a need to defend themselves. For some reason, they apparently felt a need to defend themselves against my coffee.
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i can imagine!
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Good Morning! and good morning ant!
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thank you!
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this made me smile
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I’m glad)
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OH MY!
I’ll be double checking my morning mug from here on!
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probably a good call )
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I’ll bet the ant woke you up faster than the caffeine!
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You know it!
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