Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 2:35:32 GMT
I've had 2 full days of doctors with the parents. When I got home I went out to blow off steam by doing some yard work. When I came in I felt something crawling on me and darn, the TICS are already out! Bugs and critters (other than rodents) don't bother me but I hate tics. Their bites take for ever to heal, leave a ugly black mark and there is the whole disease thing.
|
|
|
|
Post by sunsetpainter on Mar 11, 2015 3:00:21 GMT
Ick! Ticks creep me out!
|
|
val2525
Chaos Manager
Posts: 30,791 
|
Post by val2525 on Mar 11, 2015 3:32:48 GMT
Ah ha, something good about living in the high desert! Whee!
Except my trade off for no ticks is black widows. Ugh.
|
|
|
|
Post by denise15601 on Mar 11, 2015 17:22:07 GMT
Ugh to bugs, esp spiders. I do have a herd of deer that visit my yard daily, so I do worry about deer ticks.
So far, so good.
|
|
|
|
Post by jellybeanscloset412 on Mar 11, 2015 18:46:14 GMT
We are loaded with them. Then when you factor in a dog its even worse!
|
|
Shirley U Geste
Chaos Manager
Cats, cats, cats and more cats!!
Posts: 10,382
|
Post by Shirley U Geste on Mar 11, 2015 19:21:12 GMT
Sorry you have to deal with them Deborah. They take part of the fun out of enjoying the outdoors.  |
|
|
|
Post by mupcycledcouture on Mar 11, 2015 19:25:35 GMT
Ticks are bad. Lice are gross. But fleas are the worst thing ever. Because they are impossible to get rid of.
We have a black widow problem in AZ. We also had cock roaches despite how clean we were. Solved both of those problems by hiring a bug guy to spray 1x a month.
We had red ants in Texas. Our dog would come inside with her head COVERED in them because she would never learn to not stick her nose in the ant pile. They would get in her ears and nose and bite the crap out of her. We also has a copperhead bite 2 of our dogs while there.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 1:22:10 GMT
HATE ticks. My son had Lyme Disease when he was about 9-10 and DH got it last summer. No lasting effects for either of them, thank goodness, but it's just always a worry. Takes the fun out of hiking in the woods. At least my kids are grown now, so I'm no longer responsible for checking them over all the time. My other son had one in a private area when he was younger. He woke me up in the middle of the night and I had to get our tick tweezers and remove it. I was driving car pool that morning when I heard my other son tell his friend "Michael had to wake my mom up last night because he had a tick on his (fill in the blank)." You can imagine how entertaining that was for the five boys riding in my car.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 6:28:50 GMT
Classring I bet they loved that conversation! I find so many during the summer the doctor has been pretty good about prescribing a preventative dose of doxycycline each year. I just wish there was a way to make them stay off of me. Bug spray does not seem to work.
|
|
|
|
Post by RetroMonde on Mar 12, 2015 16:29:43 GMT
Eeeww- ticks gross me out! Luckily we don't have 'em locally..DS came home from a Boy Scout campout in central Oregon with 3... nasty buggers. We've had a super-mild winter so bugs will be worse this summer than usual. I killed a mosquito on my arm Sunday, and the stink bugs are already driving me crazy. But compared with what Mup & others described... we've got it easy.
Sandra
|
|
