Comments on: Mosquito Watch: Ugly Start

By: Itinerant

Itinerant — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:00:27 +0000

They’re out in Atlanta too, making the backyard questionably usable. I need to get a bug zapper. That and a 6 pack and I’ll be set for the evening.

By: eolai

eolai — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:55:07 +0000

Sam, certainly not every bite, but typically I do get several bites a year like flattened tennis balls, and others like eggs and golf-balls. The whole thing is kinda like the official hail-size naming conventions.

It’s because Deet works that I don’t use it, if ya know what I mean.

As I type this - bravely in my underwear - there are two mosquitos in the house frequently buzzing by my ear and becoming visible only when they visit the monitor. It hurts punching monitors, so now I’m going out to walk with the bats. Again.

Oh - and thank you very much on the painting - though I’m not sure which one you mean?

By: Sam, Problemchildbride

Sam, Problemchildbride — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:53:07 +0000

When I lived in Minnesota I would come out in an enormous welt like half a boiled egg every time I got bitten. They itched like crazy and I would tear myself to shreds scratching while my husband calmly advised me that “scratching will only make it worse.” Why I didn’t smack him in the face with a frying pan is a mystery to us both. He said the other year “I’d have smacked me in the face, for sure.”

DEET, however disgusting and stinky that stuff is, is the only thing that ever worked for me. And even then it didn’t.

I like that painting by the way. I’m certainly no art critic but I like that painting a lot.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:38:42 +0000

You poor man. You’re going to be chewed to pieces by July.
Shall we send Bertie and Tony over to broker the peace?