{"id":101,"date":"2008-03-13T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/ant-farm-update.html"},"modified":"2008-03-13T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:17:00","slug":"ant-farm-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/ant-farm-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Ant Farm Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we’ve had the ants in the farm going on 5 days, and we have some good-looking tunnels appearing now.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, all the tunneling is going on in “Timmy’s” ant farm, while Jake’s has something else going on…mass burials of all their dead.<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you what! I think these ant farms are WAY more interesting than fish or sea monkeys (Jake got sea monkeys for Christmas when he was 4 and they didn’t capture his attention the way these ants are).<\/p>\n

So here are the tunnels, up close and from a distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Jake’s side’s mass gravesites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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And a closeup of a pretty buff ant trucking some sand from one farm to the other:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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So, we’ve had the ants in the farm going on 5 days, and we have some good-looking tunnels appearing now. Unfortunately, all the tunneling is going on in “Timmy’s” ant farm, while Jake’s has something else going on…mass burials of all their dead. I’ll tell you what! 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