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[RC] flies,bags of water? - rides2farO.K. guys, what's the deal on the baggies of water repelling flies? A couple of years ago my mother-in-law came home from a trip out of the country and announced that everywhere over there they had baggies of water hanging from strings around outdoor eating areas, etc. and that it repelled flies. Lately I've noticed several people doing this here and there. Then out of the blue I received a commercially packaged deal that's the same idea but a little heavier bags with rivets in the top to suspend them around your barn I suppose. Don't know who my benefactor is but I dutifully hung them up. Now I have this fear that somebody's going to start laughing and say, "You fell for that TOO? So, anybody heard of any research that affirms whatever affect it's supposed to have on the flies eyes or whatever. My ponies think it's great fun to reach high and grab them so there's 2 down already so I advise you hang them high if you're going to try it. One of the commercially packaged bags actually survived being pulled down by pony teeth though so if this is for real there would be some advantage to buying theirs with the heavier plastic and rivets...but it seemed pretty uneconomical to pay shipping on that big bag of water when you could have just gotten 8 bags in an envelope. Angie "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming --WOW-- what a ride !! " ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ============================================================ Just because someone tells you that your horse isn't "fit" for endurance...doesn't mean it isn't, it just means your horse isn't fit to be "their" endurance horse! Go for it, you never know what you'll accomplish with that "saddle horse" or "trail horse" of YOURS! ~ Darlene Anderson - DPD Endurance ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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