Close to Home by John McPherson for April 18, 2024

I don’t think they speak English, though.

they might make Norm the king!

Why dontcha just ask Bleeb?

She looks hopeful.

News reports have it that, although Norm was never heard from again, citizens say they may have actually spotted him leading the charge on a local restaurant trash dumpster!

NORM ! (I borrowed that from Drabble a couple of days ago.

He’ll get the ant-sir.

A very smart approach! Emphasis on “roach”!

I had an aunt that tried that once.

hope this costume of yours shrinks down to there size or your gonna get spotted real quick.

I don’t think that will work.

Bleeb is staying where it’s safe. :)

Bedbugs are usually under covers.

He’s snug as a bug in a rug.

Decades ago, carpenter ants were eating the roof of my parent’s back porch; you could actually hear them chewing sometimes. They dropped excavated sawdust out of a hole in the ceiling. When the exterminators took a look, it turned out the hole was several feet from the actual nest. It was as if they were trying to hide the nest’s actual location.

Aunt Bee would have liked this guy.

Recent experience with home inspector at a century-old house. I was with son-in-law as the inspector did his thing inside, outside, on the roof, etc. At one point the inspector donned a head-to-toe suit with respirator, which gave him not only a funny look but a bizarre sound.

Perfect timing: my daughter arrives at the house at precisely the moment this inspector comes up out of the basement, talking.

Daughter was, to put it mildly, startled. As in, had to be scraped off the ceiling.

In our family, Ant-man lives to this day!

Norm will become one with the colony, adopt their ways, find a mate, have a few larvae, etc… ever since he was a child he dreamed of bugging out.

Something about that guy always bugged me.

I hope Norm fits under the fridge.

Perfect! He’s got built in antenna

Bleeb’s nest?