Posted on 01/10/2009 6:05:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hey y’all!
Sorry you’ve been sick, both of you.
Ja—friend is doing much better, thanks. It was just the original diagnosis/treatment and drs didn’t want to keep prescribing antibiotics.
Red—glad it wasn’t anything more serious than what it was.
Take care, both of you.
I checked my Sam's location on the landscape fabric and it is showing unavailable as well, so hopefully it is a seasonal thing and will show up in the next couple of months. It cost around $36 a roll.
I bought 8 rolls last year, but I seem to remember that I only put down 6 of them. My rows are 100' long, so I was able to cover exactly 2.5 rows with one roll. Each row of fabric overlaps the next by about 4 inches, so one row of pins down the middles holds the fabric of 2 rows. I did buy some extra pins at Lowe's because I like to place a pin every 5'. That close is not essential, but the fabric had held up against the remnants of several tropical storms and hurricanes.
I do have a couple of holes that armadillos have dug and torn, but I'll patch those with a short piece of fabric and some weatherproof tape.
Thanks for the response justa.
Gosh, you have been through a lot, and I am so sorry to hear about this.
I’m glad you posted about your experience, because, from what I a reading, Lyme Disease is much more common than the medical community is admitting.
I had a really nasty tick bite in early summer last year. It didn’t produce the red ring around the bite, but I had a rash and it took forever for it to go away.
Back in the 1980s I lived in Missouri, and this particular summer the ticks were so bad I’d take my dog outside to potty and could see ticks crawling up my leg (in a mowed, manicured lawn). I did pull a tick off then and had the red ring around the bite. I went to the doctor and he also shrugged it off, but gave me a test, which he said was negative.
About two years ago there was a thread on FR about President Bush being treated/tested for Lymes. It had a lot of posts, and there were several posters providing good information.
I hope you are getting better as I type this, and that all freepers on the gardening thread will be aware of the dangers of tick bites.
Drooling over the seed catalogues. I can't wait to harvest some good tomatoes again.
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