Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

I daresay I'm obsessed...but it's too much. If crying or screaming could help, I'd be halfway successful.

Summary of the ant problem so far:

1) Late April: ants on kitchen counter. Sprayed outside from possible invasion location. Ants dwindled and disappeared.

2) Early May: ants breach sliding glass doors, get in storage cupboard. Cupboard cleaned, all sweet attractants gone. Sprayed in and out. Ants gone fairly quickly.

3) Ants in upstairs bathrooms since mid-May. We thought we'd solved the problem Memorial Day weekend when we cleaned the roof of leaves and found a big ants' nest. Roof and sidings were sprayed. Little crawlies kept appearing through cracks in tile in one bathroom, ?? in other. Foundation of house was sprayed, ant granules distributed on the lawn. Should get better. Ants upstairs dwindled, never disappeared, probably due to rain that seems to never stop. Finally sprayed in both bathrooms.

4) Noticed in cleaning roof that tree branches touching roof. May be ant passage, also not good for shingles.

Today we went out and bought a 15 foot tree branch trimmer. Despite a rainshower before we started and water gushing all over us, we got many branches cut, including the one laying on the roof over the bathrooms. Could this be a help? All branches must be cut; another sojourn on roof needed.

After cleaning up from this muddy and wet occupation, went down to kitchen, which has been "clear" since mid-May to discover ants wandering all over door to refrigerator. Much anger, much cleaning, much more spraying, this time around the refrigerator, and again around the foundation of the house around the kitchen.

Dark now. Depressed. So very depressed. It seems like the plague will never end. Don't know what to do anymore, except cry.

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