June 4, 2009
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Water Run June 1, 2009
Wild roses are not blooming around home, but there was one bush near the base of the bluff by the spring that was in bloom.
Across the highway from the spring are some trees, and beyond the trees is a muskeg a mile wide, with the Susitna river on its other side.
Our purpose, Doug’s and mine, in going to the spring, was to fill our water buckets and jugs. The mosquitoes had a different agenda.
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I hate those nippers.
Right now we’re dealing with a flea invasion and we don’t even have a pet. We live right nest to a “critter strip” (Skunk Creek) where there is an abundance of wild life starting with rabbits. Also all our neighbors own(?) cats and or dogs. Tomorrow I plan to dust and vacuum……
How do you people deal with the nippers and do you have a black fly season?
@hapax23 - Bed nets, head nets when they’re really swarming, 100% DEET on clothing, not skin, PIC mosquito repellent coils, and best of all, transparent sticky trap strips stuck on windows and the insides of lamp shades. They start trapping skeeters before I’m finished sticking them on.
Flies aren’t much of a problem, but there are little biting gnats called noseeums, and white socks, like flying chiggers.
the photos are gorgerous….when will the roses bloom.
@dlm0908 - I’ll post more pics when the roses bloom in the yard.
Oh! Me hates chiggers too. Most people don’t seem to understand that the insect problems can be so bad in the Great North.