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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
an amazing likeness
Perhaps you've not yet heard of the blue-plastic-cup protection from horseflies and deer flies?
http://mainerunner.blogspot.com/2008/07/deer-fly-experiment-part-one.html
(with credit to Run2Win for the reference)
Acceptable at a dance, invaluable in a shipwreck.
jfa
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Our church camp was so bad.... that the horseflies would land on our heads in such numbers that several kids were pushed underwater by the weight of horseflies and the coast guard had to pull them up...
I think this is your camp:
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Prince of Fatness
Deerflies are king of the forest here too,but not until the latter part of the summer. We have greenhead flies by the shore but they generally fly solo. Not the deerflies.They swarm and attack just behind your head so you can't see them. I had to take refuge in a bathroom at Cheesequake St Park last year.Got up enough nerve and hauled ass as fast as I could to the car,which wasn't close. Some parks/woods are going to be off-limits for me this season.
Damn those biting flies down at the shore are nasty. One year I was vacationing down there (LBI) and the wind was coming off of the bay the whole week. It was like ringing the dinner bell for those little pricks. I barely saw the ocean that week, but I had plenty of beer so it wasn't that bad.
Not at it at all.
Yep.
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So it was fun,that's good .I would windsurf on Barneget Bay and the big headed bastards would land right between my shoulder blades where it's impossible to swat them, and suck a pint of my blood.
Sara
MM #2929
Yep. and this
Ha, that is one of my all-time favorite 'shop jobs.
But I don't much care for the sound of the CG helis. Living near an inland lake and Lake MI we hear them a lot. The sound always gives me chills. 2 times in recent memory the helicopter has been called down to search for lost fisherman. One case involved a young guy who had a seizure or something and fell from the boat into relatively shallow, but murky water. They didn't find his body for days. We saw and heard that copter for hours. Every time I hear it now it creeps me out.
When I was a kid in the 70s my Dad sprayed the yard with DDT before a party we were having. We didn't have any bugs or birds for that matter in our yard for awhile! Ah the good old days!
Heather and I were talking about the warnings not to use DEET on small kids, because of the risk of neurological damage. Yay, chemicals!
Now I do a lot of running on the C&O and come home with quite a few mosquito bites if I forget the deet. At least we don't have the mosquitoes with the stripes, they'll just find any place you missed with the deet, bite through thin clothing, or find a place to go into your clothes (e.g., going up your pant legs and past your socks to bite your leg).
Kirk
Buffalo Gal Rides Again
Just for fun, here's The Mosquitos. They visited Gilligan's Island. The Mosquitos sing "He's a Loser" The names of the Mosquitos: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving.
Just for fun, here's The Mosquitos. They visited Gilligan's Island.
The Mosquitos sing "He's a Loser"
The names of the Mosquitos: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving.
OMG. I remember that episode. It scares me when I can follow your references. I even knew their names.
Zoom-Zoom, the mosquitos are in a full court press in Michigan. Weird thing is that they are out so early in the evening.
That Harvest Stompede Trail Run I did last year changed the route mid-race for bees. The race volunteers were on horses due to the hilly terrain and had to yell at us from the horses about the route changes. heh.
We were running at like 4pm...insane!