New Horizons
In fall of 2024, my son posted a picture of a Tar Heels Ants formicarium on Snapchat and mentioned adding the goal of becoming an ant god. Normally, I would chalk this up to the late-night, addled postings of a young man without enough to do. Then he mentioned it in conversation a day or so later. And then a day or two after that. I decided to step in and make sure he didn't do something he wouldn't regret (re. a ferret, two cats, and a dog that my wife and I now own). In an effort to keep things under control, I told him it was close to Christmas, so he should hold off, and we would get him set up. I ordered him a Hearth XL from Tar Heel Ants. Then I decided I might need to parallel his endeavors to make sure I could help should he have any problems, so I ordered another Hearth XL for myself. At that point, I realized that there were tons of ants around us in southern Tennessee and I had so many opportunities to lean into this, so I ordered materials to begin fabricating my o...