I'm reminded of a talk I attended given by Dixie Lee Ray
<http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=601> very
many years ago. She spoke lovingly of all of God's creatures saying
that all of them great and small had a place and purpose... except
mosquitoes.
:-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/1/2011 3:05 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I've mentioned before that around 20 years ago, give or take, I got a tick
> bite on my leg. Actually, I think the head did come off inside. Anyway,
> standard bullseye and rash. All these years later I get a rash at that same
> spot for months at a time. It only clears up during the summer when wearing
> shorts a lot and exposure to UV light.
>
> Never was diagnosed with anything, and I had done a major round of
> antibiotics for something else, but some of the symptoms I dealt with were
> that of Lyme Disease. At that time there were no other reported cases of it
> in our area (west michigan), but a short time later several occurred.
>
> I forgot about the liquid soap trick. Here in Iowa we have ticks coming out
> of our ears. You can't go wading into the prairie grass without picking up a
> half dozen. I hate picking them off. But I don't hesitate to get some
> personal satisfaction in crushing them into blobs of protoplasm. I'm a
> pacifist about many things, but ticks warrant no such honor.
>
> AG
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