Dropping Ticks!

["Karen J. Zelinsky" <kjz2@juno.com>]

Okay folks!
When I WAS YOUNG (hee-hee-all is possible!) . . . . back in the hot and
steamy-in-the-summer-you-beat-through-the-air-with-a-baseball-bat-to-get-enough
to breath Southern Illinois (and I mean southern - Ozarks, hills, lakes
and all that stuff),,,,,, all one had to do is walk through the woods by
the lake at Southern Illinois University, and if you dared to linger at
any spot for a moment, you would have these little buggers falling OUT OF
THE TREES, obviously aiming for your bod.  That sounds of raining ticks
from heaven.   Upon checking with my non-scientific, non- entomolygist's
(sp?), art major's eye... EEEEKKKK  -- ticks, ticks everywhere (with lots
of blood to suck!)  -- RUN!  I kid you not!  Maybe they were a different
sort back in those days - who knows if the same sort still exist or if
they are an endangered species, or ???  But they sure understood (via
street smarts) that when heat rises and hits them they are supposed to do
a bungee-jumping, kamakazee, leap of faith down to a lunch buffet!

What's the moral of this story?  Avoid all woods and all nature at all
times!  Wear hip boots, make like an astronaut in a full suit, etc.  Now
that I'm in the real world, real time, and Central Pennsylvania about 30
years later, I haven't noticed those fearless little terrorists in these
woods.  So, was I dreaming or did any of you have the same experience? 
Southern Illinois was so tick-infested, that .. you know you're in tick
country when all the hound dogs have ears sticking straight out in a
horizontal mode! (you know - swollen ticks lodged in there!)  Anyone out
there -- do you hear me?  Sound familiar?

Presently tick-free Karen

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