Wonderful that you could be that true 'friend in need', SRS. Hope the worst of her hassles are behind her now!

I thought I was making progress, cut and bagged 4 large hefty bags of weeds (can't compost the goatheads, they have to be gotten off site). Neighbor finished carpentering in the new back door. We walked out past the ant highway, where I showed him the large yet very low hill. And lo and behold, their commute to work leads to the stupid gnarly logs the prior owners stuck in the front door cactus garden, where apparently termites are pasting on their weird sawdust crusts.

Meanwhile, I had already tried 4 stores for diatomaceous earth, no luck. Will try the feed store tomorrow. But, maybe not, neighbor says the black ants eat the termites, so they are not the real enemy.?

Regrettably, when property transfers in NM, water and sewer have to be rigorously tested but termites do not. On the upside it's not a woodframe house, so I'm probably not in danger of property loss, but, do I need to let the ants keep knockng down the termites til I track down a local termite guy or some do-it-yourself poison?

And the computer died today. The stupid cheapo new internal batteries that swell up and bow your trackpad area. Can be replaced by tearing off the whole back, but I'm so disgusted with the machine I'd rather retire it.   

I did backup everything yesterday, except I forgot the bookmarks list. I know that can and should have been synced, it just always struck me as creepy to do that.

2 steps forward, 2 steps back!