🚀 go-pugleaf

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
> Yes, I'd like to know about that. My tatami are very old (at least
> 8 years) and while there is some kind of powdered poison underneath
> maybe it's not working.

    Dave, you should pull out your tatamis and dry them on the sun.
While I was a child, everyone has been doing that.  I strongly
reccomend you do twice a year, if possible at all.  But in these days,
we Japanese do not have the garden to do that!  At least in Tokyo...
It's a pity...

> The only visible problem I had was with ants (no gokuburi!) and for
> that I found a magic green box which you put down, fill with the
> contents of an envelope and within 1 hour it is covered with ants
> busily taking the stuff home. They don't come back....

    Hm, but perhaps sugars or some kind of sweets should be the cause
for the ants, I supporse.  I prefer cleaning and drying on the sun
better than magic box or poison powders, but I admit it's up to your
policy.

							  Yasushi Kuno