Comments on: Tick-a-licious…

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:41:41 +0000

Oh now you wanna have back up!! Did you forget all the lessons about being prepaired for anything(just in case) Not to say the extra key hidden in my house wasn’t back up Had I been home I would have answered your late night window knocking and you would have gotten you safely back into your house so you could yell at romeo..Now you went and got technology. It’s about time ..but look at the bright side..at least you don’t have to worry about the frogs locking you out of the house.

you girl
~amber~

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:34:53 +0000

HOLY COW GIRL! Not only do one but TWO of our neighbors have the code to our garage. You know a good cop always has back up! Which if we had that technology back in Oklahoma could have prevented a most unusually embarrassing evening for a certain neighbor of yours that was very mad at you for ignoring my late night window tap until I found out that you guys were at a ball game! And then the, “what’s that white stuff on your face?” Give…me…strength! (And your Mom’s bathrobe!) Love you girl and the fun memories together!

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:41:06 +0000

Ok so we both know that I have just now started reading this blog and in the past few days I have gone through a lot of your little stories. but this one hit’s close to home, as I have once in my life been your neighbor and we both know there are some fun memories of that time. Of coarse for your sake I will not go into but never the less the memories I will carry for a life time lol. and for your sake and the sake of the fink boys..give you neighbor an extra key(just in case) I love you steph!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:13 +0000

1. appropriate Psalm 91
2. garlic
3. Avon skin so soft–or is this just mosquitoes?
thanks for the reminder about DEET
I am wondering if this was just a God set up to stretch that territory! Wow–getting to know your neighbors, huh?

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:36:15 +0000

Yikes! So glad you were able to get it removed, Steph!

Thanks for the tip, Jennifer. A favorite removal trick in our house is to hold an ice cube in front of the tick on the skin – ticks don’t seem to like the cold and they back themselves out – then we grab ‘em with a tweezer or tissue. The kids don’t like the cold from the ice, either, so I may try your tip next time (which is likely to be any second now…ugh, so many ticks this year!)

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:14:12 +0000

Reading this entry, as well as the other comments, have given me great comfort! I am just finishing my month long course of antibiotics after being tested positive for Lyme disease. And I too never knew I had a tick! It’s so scary! I have been made fun of for years by my husband and various friends for being obsessive about tick, checking the kids and asking to be checked. I have no shame…if I think there is something on me I’ll ask just about anyone to check it for me. I now wear the little bug band, spray with the strongest stuff I can find and still tread lightly on camping trips/park trips/backyard outings!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:49:23 +0000

Patrick gets ticks just about EVERY time the poor kid steps outside.

For future refrence, I’m an avid tick remover! In fact, the best trick I have to removing them is: Getting a tissue or cotton ball and loading it with dish soap. Then you rub the tick in circular motions till the little baby comes out. Works like a charm every time!

So, if you ever need help I’m just three doors down!

By: Karin Bourdelais

Karin Bourdelais — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:56:10 +0000

What a brave woman you are!!! Ticks + protection = Don’t go outside. I tell you – I was just diagnosed with Lyme Disease and there was no tick ever found on me – we speculate that I may have gotten this in my quest to track down the mallard duck that was using my flowerbed for her clutch of ducklings – only to have a skunk come in a raid her nest – thus leaving me with 8 eggs and a 3 hour drive to a farm that could incubate and raise the helpless ducklings. We trapsed through tall grass by Home Depot in Ashburn thinking that was her watering hole. Needless to say I am a victim of the lovely vector that carries Lyme disease and have since pulled only one of these critters off my son. Now I shower them in tick repellant and do the head-to-toe prison check to make sure they do not have any lingering in the nookes and crannies. Perfect timing for your story – it made me laugh something I find a bit more difficult to do these days. God Bless you girlfriend.