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The answer to the question below: it's a big ant hill.

Or mound.

Or mountain.

No matter what you call it, I didn't want to get anywhere near it.

When I asked a lady about it she said it was ants and that it's alright to touch them -just don't poke a hole in it.

Yeah...I can see that...I wouldn't want someone a million times bigger than I am to poke a hole in my house either.

Just the thought of poking a hole in one of those gives me nightmares.