Post #28617 by tikitony on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 2:57 AM

Yeah, I've had my battles with some ants, termites, etc. Lake Surfer, funny story, we're very similar, I made my first tikis from drift wood that accumulates at Rincon Beach in Ventura, almost all the wood I brought home was infested with some type of insect. I covered them end to end with plastic trash bags and sprayed Raid in there a couple times a week. By the way, your "operation wood retrieval" story was great. I'm always milling through trashcans, wood piles etc. for anything to be used for projects. I use the excuse that I'm a college art student when someone catches me, but I know I'm gonna still be doing it in 30 years. I also have two carpenter bees living in one of the tikis in my backyard. One is an albino, I'm not sure if thats special or anything but its pretty cuel. They always come huvering around my head when I'm out back carving. Unlike other types of bees, these seem friendlier, like you could chat tikis with them and they would understand, unlike your neighbors who are fed up with the chain saw noise. My girlfriend named one of the bees "Tumble-Weed". -tOny