Dear Ticks,

ApS · 05-27-2009, 05:43 PM

please go away.

This dark and stormy night (ok, afternoon), I pulled out the book Standing into Danger which, as it turns out, is a perfect true-life story for students of WW2 and serious boaters. I'm emphatically NOT a reader, but some quotes from this book are likely to appear in various forums here. Anyway:

Crawling up a page was a teeny-tiny insect—which I took to be a spider. Being a "live-and-let-live" sort, I brushed it off the page. However, it dropped in a very unspidery fashion.

Looking for it—and finding it—I thought maybe it was a tick, and tried to crush it. It wouldn't crush at first—though it's pretty flat now!

Due to the weather, my only venture outside today was for one piece of firewood just before its appearance on page 64 of the book.

Lakes Region visitors should know that the dreaded Lyme Disease is spread by ticks—most notably the tiny deer tick. They are present in this state, although I've only seen two in my lifetime. Both of those observations occurred within the last three years. The first tick had nearly attached itself.

This latest bug was probably a baby, as the adult Deer Tick pictured below is twice its size. I'd use OFF! around the ankles when venturing outdoors now. (And "OFF-for-Kids" for those other applications).

05-27-2009, 05:43 PM	#1
ApS Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida (Sebring & Keys), Wolfeboro Posts: 5,938 Thanks: 2,205 Thanked 776 Times in 553 Posts	Dear Ticks, please go away. This dark and stormy night (ok, afternoon), I pulled out the book Standing into Danger which, as it turns out, is a perfect true-life story for students of WW2 and serious boaters. I'm emphatically NOT a reader, but some quotes from this book are likely to appear in various forums here. Anyway: Crawling up a page was a teeny-tiny insect—which I took to be a spider. Being a "live-and-let-live" sort, I brushed it off the page. However, it dropped in a very unspidery fashion. Looking for it—and finding it—I thought maybe it was a tick, and tried to crush it. It wouldn't crush at first—though it's pretty flat now! Due to the weather, my only venture outside today was for one piece of firewood just before its appearance on page 64 of the book. Lakes Region visitors should know that the dreaded Lyme Disease is spread by ticks—most notably the tiny deer tick. They are present in this state, although I've only seen two in my lifetime. Both of those observations occurred within the last three years. The first tick had nearly attached itself. This latest bug was probably a baby, as the adult Deer Tick pictured below is twice its size. I'd use OFF! around the ankles when venturing outdoors now. (And "OFF-for-Kids" for those other applications).