ok that's so gross

Gross story alert.

I had noticed a bad smell around the linen cupboard area for a while.  I assumed something had died under the house - we have a wooden floored house on stilts - then about a metre gap to the dirt below.  It's not unusual for rats and mice and possums to breath their final gasps under the house or in the garden.

I had hoped that he ants would do their regular clean up job and the smell would dissipate after a few days.  Honestly, there are so many ants around our house that if someone slipped the mortal coil in the garden the evidence would be gone lickety split.

Anyway, the smell lingered and lingered, wafting through the hallways and not going away.

Until we tracked the source.

A rat had died in the roof eaves cavity ABOVE the LINEN CUPBOARD and dripped it's dead icky rat juices INTO THE LINEN CUPBOARD all over the quilts and sheets and towels and tablecloths.  Well probably just the top shelf of linen as it mopped up most of the DEAD RAT JUICE, but I wasn't taking any chances that the other linen hadn't copped it.

I had to wash and dry clean EVERYTHING.  And stash it in random spots around the house until the smell had gone from the cupboard.  Which it still hasn't.  So we are retrieving linen from under beds, the bathroom cupboard, piles on the floor....actually almost business as usual.

Come on ants.  Do what God designed you for.  Nature's clean up crew.