He finally feels my pain!

I have major issues when ants invade the kitchen and up until this weekend, they were only out in full force when it was just me home, err! Their home base is a concrete block at the base of our deck stairs. Anyways, we can no longer use ant killer b/c despite our best efforts (including not even letting Riley in the backyard!), some inevitably gets on our shoes or something, and Riley gets exposed, which upsets his stomach - no fun for anyone.

Finally on Saturday the ants make a resurgence in mass proportions and Chad was a witness - he realizes when I say thousands of ants are on the pad, I really mean thousands. Having no means to instantly wipe them out without poisoning our dog, Chad marches into the kitchen with the gas can saying "I'm gonna gas 'em"??? I kindly pointed out that it was not very safe and certainly not environmentally friendly - Chad is normally very on the ball about this stuff, but I'm telling you - thousands of ants will make you go a little crazy! Well, he came up with a new safe, and environmentally friendly way to get them - he brought out the hammer!! It's probably hard to appreciate how many ants are in the pic, but anything that looks remotely dark is a massive pile of ants (i.e. the entire crack b/w the two blocks).