Re: RC: Dropping Ticks!

[Jasmine Cave <toppere@siu.edu>]

I still live in southern illinois and go to SIU and when I take the horses
to any of the state parks I go really fast when you start to hear the ticks
fall. They are in the trees here.
	jasmine


At 08:14 AM 5/15/99 EDT, Karen J. Zelinsky wrote:
>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-en
ough
>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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