OK. I'll be the first to invoke the phrase.
"Girlie-men!"
All Hail plaid wool jackets and flap hats and NO WHINING!
ScottGee1
On 11/4/05, NSURIT@xxxxxxx <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> In a message dated 11/4/2005 9:06:07 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> AG and I were getting bit by flies in early October, though it was
> warmer than usual this year and they were mainly concentrated down by
> the water. Other occasions when I've been to northern Michigan in
> early October the wind, rain, and snow was more the factor.
>
> In Michigan they wear red plaid jackets and caps with earflaps. The people
> too.
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>
> I wish you guys would quit complaining about your little bugs. Spring time
> is wonderful in Texas. We have beautiful wildflowers, the birds come into
> the rookeries for breeding, the snakes, alligators and other
> reptiles/amphibians start stirring and swarms of mosquitos start doing their
> thing. 100% DEET
> is their beverage of choice, West Nile virus is their gift to the world and
> fools like me invade their habitat to capture images which may make the trip
> worth making. There is no way for me to tell you how one can be covered head
> to foot with these insects and get you to understand how many of the little
> blood suckers there might be. They cover your Levi's, bite through layers of
> clothes, ask for another round of DEET, fly into your camera body when you
> are changing lenses, get in your eyes, ears and throat. When you get in your
> car a few dozen will join you for the trip home. You can put your windows
> down and swat at them, but you won't get them all. That is something only a
> day
> or so of Texas heat can do to them when you lock them up in your car. If
> you are really unlucky, you will end up with a few of them in your bedroom.
> They seem to delight in buzzing your ears while you are trying to sleep. Go
> ahead and get up and swat them if you can find them. If you are successful,
> you will have a dead mosquito and a big spot of your blood that you smashed
> out
> of their body stuck to the wall. You want to see insects, come to Texas
> and I'll show you insects . . . and some other wonderful things. Now stop
> whining. Bill Barber
>
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