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First tick of the year today

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by papadave, May 22, 2014.

  1. Gasifier

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    Well, let's see. I occasionally wake up with night terrors the night after I have done the bills for two pieces of property. I am well on my way to going bald. No problem in the other areas! Yet! LOFL! Thankfully! Yeeesh. Thanks for cheering me up before I go to bed Dave. Let's do this again some time. Shall we?
     
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    Well that's just fantastic ;)
     
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    Well... isn't that special... :hair:
     
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    :rofl: :lol:
     
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  5. Stinny

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    :rofl: :lol:
     
  6. Stinny

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    Going to bed now... curled up in a ball. Prolly have night terrors about Pete's blueberry flies... :bug:
     
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  7. lukem

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    I'm not making this up. My BIL took his dog for a walk in the woods last week for a couple hours. When they got back he pulled 72 ticks off the dog.
     
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  8. Gasifier

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    I believe it. My wife took 10 off of each dogs heads when they got back from one of their romps in the woods about a week ago. :mad: I was glad I was not home when they came back. :rofl: :lol: Ahem. I mean I was working and I couldn't have been there if I wanted to. Really!
     
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    Bed? Lightweight. :rolleyes:
     
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    Okay now I'm thinking hazmat suit
     
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    Wow 72 :jaw: :bug: in a couple of hours
     
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    I think I had one months ago but here in the south they dont really ever diss appear...just slow down. And this year they slowed way down but I think I has some several months ago?
     
  15. savemoney

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    Got Lyme's two years ago. Had a huge infection on my abdomen, Big as a foot ball. Pain was the worst I have ever experienced. Now battling arthritis, but who is to say I wouldn't have arthritis anyway. Now ck the dogs every time they come in. They don't go into the woods because of the wireless dog fence. I hate to spray, but I am going to spray around the shrubs, house foundation and the parameter of the lawns. I have pulled several of my female lab but none off the male. He is lazy and doesn't explore like the female does.
     
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  16. papadave

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    I wonder if chaps will fit over one of those?
    How's THAT for a visual?:rofl: :lol:
     
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    quite a visual there you should have seen me when I was battling the Yellow Jackets, after they attacked me, about 40 stings that day,boots, full motorcycle rain gear, full face helmet, and neck wrapped up, I dug and I burned , and I dug and I burned ,and I dug and I burned :D
     
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  18. My IS heats my home

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    A hazmat suit would be cool, watching all the little black ticks walking around on the white background
     
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    I believe it. Ticks are really nasty this time of year. We once pulled off over 100 ticks crawling on a golden puppy over the course of a few hours during a hike. Unbeknownst to us the dog hadn't been treated. (He wasn't officially our dog at that point but he became our dog a week later.)
     
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