Posted on 09/28/2018 11:14:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Get the Avon lady on the phone - we’ll take 14 million Skin-so-Softs, please. And can Wyoming send down some loaner bass? They’ll get fed real good.
OMG! THIS is my very favorte Far Side Comic !
I believe Ocracoke Island is open for visitors, I’ve been following posts by Village Craftsmen on the island, and shelling is reportedly awesome. People are finding augers, conch shells, olive shells, and the State Shell that is very hard to find under normal circumstances, the Scotch Bonnet. The road to the Hatteras ferry landing is still closed due to heavy storm overwash to my knowledge though, only the landing in Silver Lake Harbor is open, serving Cedar Island and Swan Quarter on the mainland. Maybe they’re rerouted Hatteras ferry traffic there temporarily, can’t say.
I know people here who do big planters by all their outside doors, plant lavender, mint, citronella, lemon verbena and a few others I can’t recall in them, just grab a handful and rub it all over exposed skin. Smells great, natural insect repellent.
I am soooooo jealous!.......We have very few shells on our beaches, and the ones we do have are common..................
I’m not a fan of Facebook, but that’s where the info is, so here’s a link:
https://www.facebook.com/Village-Craftsmen-185596684826166/
Ha! There you have it...you’ve proven the lying, enviroweenies wrong, again!!
I didn’t have any of those. Lol
I don’t get bothered at home. Hadn’t had a bite all year.
I’m in NC but well inland and northwest of where the flooding occurred, we actually have fewer mosquitoes after the storm than before. There’s typically gorgeous weather pulled up in the wake of a hurricane and this one was no exception, bright, sunny, dry, humidity much lower. Areas southeast got that weather too but had and still have widespread flooding, it’s generally so flat that water takes a good long while to drain off afterwards. Perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes, even some that are fairly unusual there, such as those huge ones whose eggs had laid dormant since the last big storm flooding.
I don’t usually get bit in Hawaii either. They must’ve been extra hungry. I actually started looking for bed bugs first since I’ve never been bit before. No bed bugs. Just hungry rainforest bugs.
Actually, “The Mist” a few years ago featured absolutely giant bugs and it was a pretty good science fiction movie. Caution: it has one of the most grim endings I have ever seen in a movie in my life. (Planet Of The Apes is still #1 in that respect.)
Yep!
Been there, done that many times. It was a blast!
Hahaha! Love it. Thanks for sharing!
Skeeters are awful here in Wake Co. Worst I’ve ever seen no matter the time of day.
“He said a silver lining is the mosquitoes aren’t transmitting many diseases.”
Wheew.
I thought, maybe, the hurricane sucked up some tiger ‘skeeters from somewhere and dropped ‘em on NC. Dengue (break bone) Fever comes with them.
Back in the 80s we used to call it Seabo”. :)
I was working in Mobile, AL back then when the bales were washing ashore. High times!
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