Life in this little Alabama trailer park in this little town at the bottom of the State continues to evolve daily.

For the very most part it's been great, considering the possible alternatives I was considering, and I'm grateful for the help and support I received to get here. I appreciate the roof over my head and the ability to live my life as I chose.

I'm not making any excuses, but it's tough being this old. I certainly didn't think I could possibly make it this long with the way I've lived. But I have, I'm healthy and I'm sober.

It's 0430 on a dark Sunday morning. I usually sleep longer than this but last night was interesting. I was finally clean so I put fresh sheets on my bed to celebrate and drifted off quickly.

After a couple of hours I woke up and said to myself What the Fuck? Something was in my bed and biting me all over! At first I thought it must have been a nightmare, but as I laid there I could feel things crawling over me, and making my skin their dinner.

I jumped up and flipped on the overhead light. There on my nice clean sheets were about twenty tiny black ants! So I picked each one up, crushed them between my fingers and threw them on the floor.

Let me back story a bit. I knew the trailer park had an ant problem, I remember the first time I sat out front of the trailer with my bare feet in the grass. They bit the shit out of me and I had to bail. One particular bite between two toes on my left foot, is still there.

One day I noticed a trail of them in the RV, coming up the cabinet near the front door and I sprayed them with heavy duty bug killer. It has finally dawned on me why the folks in this Park never come outside. Nobody sits around and mingles, they all stay inside, all the time.

Well, it is what it is. I just need to find some indoor traps to protect myself. After about fifteen minutes of no ants returning I went back to bed, and only got up one more time to kill some stragglers.

It could have been worse, I lifted up the mattress and found no trail so I'm hoping traps will work. Hey, I could be sleeping under a freeway so I'm very grateful for what I have.