I keep planning on getting younger rather than older, but then I forget.
Just More of Ken's Nonsense
- Thread starter Ken Anderson
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Mary Stetler
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Forget what?
Beth Gallagher
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Ken, I hope you're taking a bottle of water with you in the heat. Do you ever get ticks or chiggers when you go off onto a trail? I've read that both are really bad this year.
I sometimes wish I had, but I don't. Usually, I don't plan on going as far as I do.
Marie Miller
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How about one of those small ones that fit in a pants pocket? Just park it next to your shoes.
The black flies were particularly numerous and vicious yesterday. Working in the yard, my arms, legs, and neck were peppered with blackfly wounds by the time I finished. Fortunately, I don't react to blackfly or mosquito bites as badly as some people do. They do go after me, but an hour later, only a few of the bites are still visible, and none of them hurt or itch anymore.
When I am planning on a longish hike, I will sometimes bring water, and if I plan to hike in a part of the woods where there is a possibility of getting temporarily lost, I'll sometimes even carry a small backpack with snacks, Dude wipes, and water. Fortunately, I have never needed the Dude Wipes on a hike, but when I didn't have them, I probably would. Generally, when I regret not having brought water, I will have set out intending on a 20-minute hike, for which I wouldn't need anything, and then decided to go further.
Since my last hospitalization for a bowel obstruction, several months ago, I have had only two carbonated beverages. Besides a low-residue diet, my surgeon said that I shouldn't drink more than maybe one soda (pop) a month. I thought that was going to be difficult because I had been drinking six or more per day, most days, for several years. However, in part perhaps because the threat of another abdominal surgery scares me, I've only had two. I had a Diet Moxie, which I loved, and didn't want to even finish it, although I did, and the other one was a fountain drink at a fast food place while we were traveling, and I didn't enjoy that much either. I thought that was going to be a hard habit to break.
Today again, I spent a few hours in the yard feeding the black flies.
Marie Miller
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You could have been feeding Brown Recluses like silly me did. Long sleeves, hat, you know the drill.
Marie Miller
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No reason to wow Ken. I get hysterical when it comes to multi leggers. Looked like a sugar ant bit me about six inches from my wrist. Next morning two distinct white dotes, red swelling about twelve inches by six inches, red, hard and itching. Shots, antibiotics and strict instructions to go to ER if marked dimensions do not shrink. There is a national vaccination register. I was too fluffy at Walgreens to take down the name and will have to find it.
Please seniors - is your Tetanus vaccine up to date? A bug bite, scratch by a pet or a grand child, a thorn. Take care of this and generally insurance covers it.
Most spiders are incapable of biting into human skin, and most people who think they've been bitten by a spider are referring to an insect bite or some other skin issue, but brown recluses are no joke.
Marie Miller
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Please tell the one who apparent bit me. It is not a think but two white coates and and obvious bite pattern.
I said "most spiders," not all. The brown recluse is an exception.
Mary Stetler
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I have a hat with mosquito netting in the brim to take down because black fly bites are the worst for me. I also have just a plain netting that can pull over any cap to keep them out of my face and neck. And now the deer flies are out.
I have a wide-brimmed floppy hat that has a flap covering the back of my neck that I could fit netting onto. When I go up north to my camp land or when I am planning a long walk in the woods, where I don't expect to come across anyone, I'll wear that and, even without the netting, the wide, floppy brim seems to confuse them, and mostly keeps them off my face, while the back flap completely keeps them from biting the back of my neck. This is going to sound silly, but I rarely wear it because it looks ridiculous.
Mary Stetler
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I always look ridiculous or at least, not dressed for success. I'm old. I want comfort and no cares. Hubby always wants a crease in his pants. I don't know why. I think he still aspires to be a rich somebody. I think he missed the boat.
Marie Miller
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It does not take much to combine comfort and “I care”.