Ants

Every year, in the spring, we get ants. It's been ten years since we moved to this house, and it happens without fail: as early as January, as late as March. Sometimes they're gone in 48 hours; there's been a year or two where it takes months. One particularly tricky year we learned that they always come in through the electrical system when we caught them coming up through insulated wires, though how we cannot imagine. The electrical system piece makes it hard to eradicate them, because a lot of the pet- and child-safe options are liquids or gels. So I accept it: this is just an annoying struggle every year.

This year: no ants. We are now the latest it's ever been, and there haven't even been the typical warning signs (they start appearing in ones or twos a week or so before the big visit). Perhaps it'll stay this way.