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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

Time to brag, I just finished the swingset for the grandson.  He is already 
planning nights there and has gotten his seat dirty sliding.  So fat it has 
been a pirate ship chased by sharks and a submarine.

See http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html for the 
results.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> THAT's comforting to know - just yesterday our 6 year old excitedly
> pointed out one in the bathroom.  I said it can't hurt you and is not
> dangerous.
>
> (I'll handle them MUCH more carefully from now on!)

I've taken this whole discussion to heart, since my ancient brick pile
(in which I live) could probably be declared a habitat for endangered
spiders. I've seen some interesting ones.

I always have bendryl on hand (and when I had the goat dairy, I
generally had epinephrine too) but I laid in some of the liquid
variety as well as some spray. The latest plague -- and I'm not really
bitching because I'm on high ground, so the plague of the day isn't
the problem -- is buffalo gnats. They look like regular gnats, but
when they bite you, huge welts form. According to the local papers,
buffalo gnats thrive only in clean, running streams. They were a
penance for the early settlers (and the Indians who were killed or
evicted to make way for the settlers) but in living memory haven't
been much of a problem. Now the streams are all cleaned up, and the
gnats are back. At least that's the story. The observable fact is that
they're worse than timber flies and just as bad as sweat bees.

Marie, who remembers the nearly mosquito-less year during the drought
of '88 (not a consideration this year)