Ticks, tornados, and a Kucinich bumper sticker

[LittleClarkie]

I encountered all three camping this weekend.

I stabbed a hole through my tent trying to kill my camping arch nemesis, the tick that dared crawl on my pillow.

I got to watch raindrops as big as golf balls hit my tent, and the sides go in and out like the thing was breathing, but luckily, just about the time I figured out there was a tornado in the area, the storm seemed to be passing. I forgot to tuck in my tarp however, and slept soggy that night.

After a thorough tick check of the tent of course. Actually spent all day in a perpetual tick check of hair and clothings. My one big camping phobia.

But I thought of youse guys when we went to get wood. An old guy, must have been about 60, was selling wood at the campground out of his pickup. On his bumper was a Dennis Kucinich sticker. First one I've seen in a long, long time around here.

[ewagner]

1. When I lived in Northern Wisconsin

some of the "natives" up there used to refer to themselves as "wood ticks". That always bothered me because I have a tick phobia too.

Where were you camping?

[LittleClarkie]

6. Bong Recreational Area

in the Racine/Kenosha area.

It was fun watching a bunch of planes make like the Blue Angels, and some folks were shooting off rockets.

Could have been longer. And that tick kind of ruined my day. Such is life with a phobia.

No mosquitoes, but tons of fire ants. I'm still bit up. Retribution for camping on their turf, I guess.

[ewagner]

8. Just in case non-Wisconsinites

think you're kidding:

[XemaSab]

14. Wow... well here in California we have

Glory Hole Recreation Area.

[TheMightyFavog]

19. Named after one of our best Fighter pilots of WWII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong

[Eurobabe]

2. he-he, you made me laugh

i misread your comment about getting wood...

CLARK 08!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Sounds like an eventful weekend. :^) We're going camping

next week. I hope we don't get any ticks or tornadoes!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

4. I saw some Kerry bumper stickers today....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=186x9862

:hi:

[jeff30997]

5. Ticks, tornados, and a Kucinich bumper sticker

Sounds like a Woody Allen movie tittle.:)

[Wetzelbill]

7. Goooooood story

I had a tick on my head once. He was just about to dig in and my mom shrieked, grabbed it and tossed it out of our car window. We were in Glacier Park strolling around in the woods. I get creeped out thinking about it now. Ugh.

I am a proud DK voter. :)

[LittleClarkie]

10. Yep, my first encounter with one was when I reached up to scratch my head

encountered what I thought was a scab, scratched it, only to find it moving on the tent floor.

So, not knowing how tough they are, I mushed it.

It said, "Fuck you."

I mushed it again.

It said, "No, FUCK you."

I got out my Swiss Army knife and stabbed the little bastard.

That did it. Damn little tank.

Come to find out, the land that Aldo Leopold wrote about in "Sand County Almanac" is also Tickland. Don't got to Buckhorn State Park in Wisconsin if you're afraid of ticks. They're fucking everywhere. You don't even have to go into the tall grass. You can be sitting at a picnic table, look down, and see one crawling up your shirt. Or in your shirt. Or sitting in wait on your tent. Just everywhere. (shudder!)

I think it was encountering them THERE, where they were everywhere and I couldn't control whether or not I encountered them by staying out of the tall grass and such is why I'm phobic about them. I just freak out. My poor tent.

[Wetzelbill]

16. Former World Bull Riding Champion Gary Leffew used to call me The Tick

Because I'm small, about 5'1 and at the time 112 pounds or so. I went to his bull riding school in Idaho and I stuck it to a couple pretty tough bulls, so he said I looked like a little tick on a big bulls back, lol. So all week everybody called me The Tick. He said I should make a t-shirt for all the girls that says "The Tick Sticks" haha.

At my parent's house out in the country, there are ticks sometimes. Out in the fields. They never really got on any of us humans oddly enough, but our dogs and stuff would get some every once in a while. Hardly ever, they aren't predominant or anything. But they are out there. :)

[MuseRider]

9. Got one on my pickup

and it got me recognized by the media when I did an interview. Now they all remember my name because it was probably the only one in town and on a pickup no less!

I hope you had fun. Ticks, ick. We have them so bad here with the moisture and tornados? No problem but then I am not in a tent. :scared: That must have been exciting!

[LittleClarkie]

12. Gak

I'd go nuts. Can you get away from them? I found one state park in Wisconsin where I couldn't. Didn't matter if I was anywhere near the tall grass, they were freakin' everwhere. I was SO paranoid.

Luckily I only saw the one this time. But at 5 am. Ended up staying up after that.

[MuseRider]

17. I pick them off daily.

The worst are the tiny little ones that you can barely see. They usually are on you in the 100's it seems or else you would not ever know they were there.

I have a farm, I deal. Hate it but it is a fact out here. The worst is the way they get in my horses tails. Now that is a search.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. LOL

I thought you were talking about a tick. And I'm thinking Muse was the only person who had a tick in all of Topeka? And why in her truck?

Then I reread the OP and realized you were talking about your bumper sticker. :rofl:

[MuseRider]

20. Got a whole jar of em

in the back little lady. Wanna see one?

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Sure

I'm living in red state hell. Ticks don't scare me.

[Lars39]

11. Husband has a theory about ticks...

he thinks white or light colored clothing attracts 'em.
He's had more ticks attracted to white socks than to brown.
I figure it's a moot point if you step in a tick bed of baby ticks.:scared:

[LittleClarkie]

13. I have goose bumps now

IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!

[Lars39]

15. Sorry, those things give me the willies, too.

I keep wishing for a reeaaallly bad ass winter to freeze 'em out, but it hasn't happened yet.