Fire Ants

I think I wrote a while back about how this year has been different with the blueberries ripening at a later date than usual. Something else hit me yesterday that I really had not thought about until now. There are no fire ants in my yard this year. For the first time that I can recall, and I have lived here for about 32 years, there is not a single fire ant mound in my yard. That is very unusual. I have always been plagued with fire ants. One year I counted 120 mounds in just the mowed portion of my 2 acres. This year there are no mounds and as best I can determine, no fire ants either. This is not the result of anything I have done. I quit putting out fire ant poison several years ago since it did not appear to do any good. Maybe they are just taking a year off and resting underground but they certainly aren't running around my yard like they have in the past.

Comida Típica

A while back I was reading a blog or a travel log where someone had traveled in Mexico and Central America and he or she was talking about eating comida típica. I am a threat to try exotic foods so I googled comida típica to see what it was. I discovered that it just meant typical food or food commonly served. In the region in question, that turned out to be rice, beans, salsa, tortillas and maybe some pork or chicken. Kind of like a #3 at your local Mexican restaurant.

I had not though of comida típica for awhile until last night. I was eating supper over at Lindas and we were having chicken, mac and cheese, peas, sliced tomatoes and onion. It dawned on me that for the time of year and place we were, that we were having comida típica for supper.