I need to remember to buy some 6-12 and Campho-Phenique next time I'm at the store......Ben
I need to remember to buy some 6-12 and Campho-Phenique next time I'm at the store......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
They have not been bad here YET........................
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The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
Stop whining---you haven't seen mosquitoes until you spend some time on the Alaskan Tundra----they eat geese for breakfast
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
So----let me understand----do you spray the skeeters with that concoction or rub it on yourself?
Back to them tundra skeeters-----it is the only time that I gave thought to peeing my pants rather than taking a more conventional route to relief
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
6-12 always worked well...I doused it on myself from a stick (similar to underarm deodorant), but it seems it got banned a few decades ago by some eco-wacko, possibly the same one that banned DDT...The hot sauce/diesel idea came from my fevered imagination, but who knows, it might work...I'll probably just see what they have on the shelf at HEB...I hope they still sell Campho-Phenique...It stopped the itch almost instantly as I remember...My Mom always kept plenty of both on hand when we were kids......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
Yep - the record levels of rainfall this year are going to bring a bounty of mosquitos. And, firefighters fear the fuel growth occurring out in the bush.
The good news is Lake Mead will rise for the Las Vegans.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
Lake Powell is coming up almost 1.5' per day right now.
worst swarms of Mosquitos I have ever run into was on the outer banks of North Carolina. The damn things would land on an bite through the big blob of deet on your arm before you even had a chance to spread it out. As you got out of your car a huge black cloud of em would raise off of every bush with in 30 feet of you.
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
Exumas Bahama.... Anchored about 30 yards off shore in Staniel Cay enjoying a cuban cigar on the bow after dinner when we hear a humming noise. My mate looked at me and said 'lets go down and make the ship tight". A swarm of mosquitoes the size of flies engulfed the boat for about 15 minutes and then were gone..... No more encounters for the rest of the evening but we slept with all the hatches tight and the genny running for AC that night.
I learned to anchor out on the windward side after that.
I also saw something this week I haven't seen in decades, a firefly...Just one in the front yard...I used to see swarms of them in East Texas, but this was the first one I've seen here......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
We've had a lot of rain and hence a lot of mosquitoes, biggest I've seen since I left Northern Wisconsin, largest swarms also. Used to be you couldn't see them coming now they have got so big you can't help but see them.
OH! I have seen a bunch of fireflies also. I've never much paid attention to the date when they come in. We usually get a lot not so many so far.
This is your mind on drugs!