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To: Crocodile who wrote (43755)	5/26/2005 1:14:23 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104159

I'd say the skeeters here are even worse than that time. Pretty frightening! I heard a news report that in Maine, small children have been spotted flying airborn through the woods due to the large amount of biting skeeters. I better stock up on citronella and Deet. (I imagine you might have a better method. Lemme know what you use.) Ya wanna know what cracks me up? Due to the West Nile scare, stores like Home Depot, etc have been selling mosquito traps that run off of those big barbeque propane tanks to produce CO2 and cost over $300. They are selling like hot cakes. We live in some strange times. I can't imagine spending $300 on something that burns propane (and can't even cook a hamburger), lures bugs from far and wide, and catches probably less than half of them. Seems cheaper to simply put a Porterhouse steak or a couple open cans of bubbly soda inside a running shop vac... <g> Maybe I should patent that idea. I remember taking the whole family on our first hike ever. It had been a very damp spring and summer. We had to almost run the entire hike while swatting everywhere until we reached an open sunny area where the skeeters refused to follow. Our mosquito bites had bites on them. It took a while to convince them that not every hike is that buggy. -Bugsy