Bug Bait

Fio's is the haute cuisine of the mini-muncher world. Mosquitoes, chiggers, you name them--they all step up to the table.

Two days ago she was the victim of a fire ant bite, and they don't call them fire ants for nothing. One little nip on her toe and her foot was aflame. Husband prepared her a baking soda poultice Saturday evening, but she had to stagger out of bed in the middle of the night to renew it in order to get some sleep. It's been that way ever since--about three apps a day to quell the pain.

So now she's going to use a fire ant episode in one of her romance plots. No pain, no gain.