I mistakenly thought, that with the ridiculously cold and long winter that we had, that the TICK population would be decimated. I COULD NOT OF BEEN MORE WRONG. WE ACTUALLY HAVE MORE TICKS THIS YEAR THAN WE'VE HAD IN THE 4 YEARS WITH ON THE LAND.
Apparently, the deep snow cover that we had for most of the winter, saved the ticks.
Just walking around on our gravel driveway (12 feet wide), walking on a path that is also 12 feet wide with low grass and no high grass, and working on our short cut lawn gives us ticks.
My husband is finding over 4 on himself each day, my beautiful daughter with long red hair luckily combed it carefully and found 1 alive crawling, and I have been wearing nonstop "bugs away" or "insect shield" clothing and still find them on me.
And the poor dog.
It's not as if were even getting woods time, or hiking, or anything fun like that.
Okay rant over
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