Hidden Ants: Hidden Treasure

In the process of preparing to transport our male goat to my friends house, I pulled a large tarp out of my outdoor storage (where I stash all the gardening odds and ends/extra goat tethers, etc.).  It's huge so I semi-shook it out and covered the back of my car with it partially folded.

My son brought Brownie out to the car but wasn't putting him in so I huffed over to help out.

"Um, mom, there are ants EVERYWHERE."

Crawling all over the tarp, marching all over the carpet, creeping into all the cracks...DISGUSTING!!!

I rip the tarp out and an ANT HILL had started IN THE FOLD OF THE TARP!

My son jumps in the car and starts stomping and then runs to the house for the shop vac.  I feverishly start vacuuming as fast as possible, rip the carpeting out and vacuum every crack and crevice I can see.  

Here's the carpet
(there wasn't any of that other stuff when we did this,
but I wanted to show you some pics of the space).

Ripping out the carpet leaves this in the corners

I scour the now uncarpeted floor for any little escape artists, lifting the cubby hole on the left side of the car and sucking up the escapees.  

Then I turn my attention to the cubby hole on the right side of the car, lift the lid and 

NECKLACE!!!!!!!!!!

My long sought after "Lost in the Tiny House" (http://tinylivingbigplans.blogspot.com/2016/10/lost-in-tiny-house.html) necklace was in THIS cubby hole.

As I gasp in joy, grab the necklace and jump back to my vacuuming, I remember WHY ON EARTH I put my necklace in the cubby hole of my car OF ALL PLACES:

I was somewhere my car was likely to get broken into.
I knew the glove box would be the first place a thief would look.
I didn't want it lost under the seat (but also a thief likely place).
I knew wallets and purses are desirable to thieves.
I didn't want to wear the necklace (it probably didn't match my outfit!).
I knew this cubby hole was well hidden.

Evidently well hidden enough that if it wasn't for a very disgusting ant catastrophe I probably wouldn't have found it for months.  However, it WAS in a safe place!

Oh, and I haven't seen any ants in my car since the catastrophe: another HUGE blessing!