Subject: Saturday Chat 09.04.10 by Matatk on 2010/9/4 11:40:10
Good Morning CGs!
Was a cool evening and I slept with the windows open. It was nice. Today is only up to 69, I think. I love fall weather. Although I like to swim in the summer, so I'll be sad to see it go. On that same topic, I won't be sad to see the damn mosquitoes go! Here's Don "Jerry Lewis" Haller's post from yesterday:
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biggrizzly wrote:
BUG BITES -- HA HA HA ---- Come visit me if you want to get some bug bites. My backyard borders a 700 acre or so Wetland. That's a nice word for swamp! We have all kinds of crawly and slithering things back there and flying ones too! The worst bugs are the itty bitty tiny mosquitoes. They can tear your ass up in just a few minutes if you don't have Deet or Off sprayed on. We have found some great little lanterns that keep them at bay and really seem to work. I could never, ever go into my yard bare-footed without spray for any period of time and expect to not get bitten up. If I get them real bad, I will take Benadryl tablets and spray on some anti-itching spray for the two or three days of the worst. I feel for ya Matt!!
Well....the mosquitoes that got me were the itty bitty ones...the young ones that live in the grass and aren't really flying. As far as having wetlands, here's a shot of my neighborhood. The marsh/pond/wetland is 200 feet from my driveway with a forest preserve behind it...so take that, Don!
And this is what those little bastages did to me. It's like this on both sides of each ankle:
Last night was pretty bothersome, as well. It seems at night once I lay down it gets worse. May have something to do with circulation. So I slept with some ice bags on them again. During the day my buddy at work convinced me to try Gold Bond Medicated lotion...that stuff works great. I've never tried it before. You put it on and after a couple minutes it turns cool and stops the itching for about 2-3 hours. I can't wait for this to go away.
