Late February 2004

Writing this during a mild spell in early March, I feel out of the Winter spirit and have gone into 'tick alert' mode, which means I spray my pants legs with repellant - not that ticks particularly  worry me - it's  just that they're so busy and friendly in the early Spring and they come home with me.

When I was young, it was Rocky Mountain (click) Spotted Fever that worried us when we saw ticks. . .Now, of course, it's Lyme Disease, (a growth industry in the past decade) - but I haven't really heard as many alarmists as before - so maybe the ticks are just trying to figure out what next to frighten us with.