> >Terrible place to live and work and especially play. > > Yup, you are 125% correct. Florida ranks right up there, and no offense, > probally rates as a worse place than Tx to live / play / work. Heck, I > believe that even the mosquitos here are bigger and more vicious than Tx. |Hey! Now wait just a dang minute, there! Texas mosquitos are so big, |just one requires an entire rudder for a perch! And they are so vicious, |they eat Power Bars and can suck all the blood out of a Texas longhorn in |two minutes flat! We even rope 'em and use 'em as kites to propel our kayaks |through the water! :-p Shoot! You people don't know nothing about bit'n bugs. Those lil' ol' thang's that you are worry'n about are little nits. YOU don't want to come to North Carolina 'cause we got TICKS ands CHIGGERS aka REDBUGS! Now they will set you to itch'n. YOU WILL WISH you had been nibble'd on by a wee lil' itty bitty squeeter once a horde of chiggers has latched on to your body parts. Chiggers like to move up your legs to a W A R M, W E T, and D A R K place before they commence to a feed'n. Think on where that place may be..... I F Y O U D A R E...... You don't even know they are a much'n away until 24 hours later that when the red welts appear. At which time you will commence to itch'n. And you will stay a itch'n for a couple O weeks. And you don't get just ONE chigger! OH NO! They come in at least DOZENS and usually HUNDREDS! They are kinda like potato chips in reverse. Instead of you a eat'n, its youse that they are eatn'..... Heck, don't talk to me about no little scrawny squeeters. I'll take them any day or night for that matter! 8-) And if you think I'm kidding, I invite, NO!, I DARE, make that a DOUBLE DOG DARE for you to walk my property in shorts. GO ON! The wee ones are HUNGRY! LOL! I'm not kidding at all. Search lycos.com for chiggers and see how many web pages are devoted to these Evil Mites From Hell...... 8-) Later.... Dan Scratch'n And Itchin McCarty *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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