"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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How very interesting, as yesterday, for the first time, we had carpenter
ants aboard, following a torrential rain.

Curiously, however, by the end of the day, there were several dead ones,
but all the rest had decamped, and there are none today.


Your ants were probably workers fleeing the deluge because they probably
couldn't get back to the queen's castle until the flood subsided. I don't
get the dead one's, though, unless perhaps Portia smacked them. The
problem with a boat constantly on the water is the fact that when a queen
lands and sheds her wings she's stuck on the boat so she sets up
housekeeping even if it's not really to her liking.


Wilbur Hubbard