Things that are ticking me off - PSA

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1. Ticks

The mild winter has led to a huge number of ticks this spring, I've found 6 already climbing on me inside. One of the best things you can do to prevent them is to keep your lawn mowed.

Note to neighbors: Mow your F'in lawn!

2. Gassing beef with Carbon Monoxide

People probably aren't aware of this, but in 1992 the FDA started allowing meat packers to gas their beef with carbon monoxide. It sets the red color in the myoglobin making the meat "look" fresher than it really is.

Appearantly the FDA doesn't consider this coloring the meat, which would be illegal. Ask your butcher if the meat is processed fresh onsite.

Note to wife: Please only buy beef from Clements and Lees

3) Network Neutrality

Another thing people aren't paying attention to...big corporations are lobbying hard for congress to allow telecom's to provide prefered service for some web traffic over others.

What this means is that if you have access through AOL, they could sign a preferred contract with Amazon so Amazon would be faster than competing sites!

Note to everyone: This is a bad thing.

-spence

[tynan19]

Ticks, bother me also. My wife and I take the kids once a week for a hike in the woods. I have seen a lot more ticks as well this year. The other day our cat was sitting in the computer chair before I sat down and when I got up I had a fat tick crawling up my chest.

[Swimmer]

Whole Foods market sells beef with nothing in the meat. Grain fed and certfied so.

[spence]

Yea, but we don't live in Providence

-spence

[Swimmer]

Any closer to Bellingham, Mass. Spence. They have one there also.

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by spence

1. Ticks

The mild winter has led to a huge number of ticks this spring, I've found 6 already climbing on me inside. One of the best things you can do to prevent them is to keep your lawn mowed.

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-spence

Think you hate Ticks? My wife has had Lyme for 2 years this coming June. You want something to scare the F&^% out of you? Spend a few weeks seeing what her life is like every day. F'ng UNBELIEVABLE...

I BATH in DEET whenever I venture near the woods.

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I know a few people who deal with it...

That's why I hate ticks

-spence

[reelecstasy]

I work with a guy here that has had it, sucks. Changed him, not the easy going light hearted guy anymore....

[Uncle Matt]

I had four crawling on me last Friday while I waxed the boat. Any clue if that tick and insect repellant stuff you put on your lawn like fertilizer works?

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Originally Posted by Uncle Matt

I had four crawling on me last Friday while I waxed the boat. Any clue if that tick and insect repellant stuff you put on your lawn like fertilizer works?

I'd be suprised...best thing is just to keep the lawn mowed short.

I have read that a deer tick has to be on you for a full day for lyme disease (if present in the tick) to be transferred. So if you're in a higher risk area there's plenty of time to check the obvious spots.

-spence

[reelecstasy]

and not so obvious spots, the guy in here had it on him for like 3 days, yikes....

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I guess buy obvious I really mean not so obvious

Groin, pits, hair etc...

-spence

[basswipe]

Spence if you're buying meat at Clements save yourself a trip over the bridge and buy it at Grand Central.Both are IGA grocers and their meats come off the same exact truck.Clements does have a wider selection though but there ain't nuthin cheap about shopping there or at Grand Central.

[Raven]

supposedly the saliva they exude is where the lyme disease enters the human body... and i've been told by more than one source that its not ONLY the deer tick now that's carrying the disease...all of them carry it. I had a tick on my neck recently and the first thing i did was take penicillen which was stupid because it takes almost two weeks before the symptoms begin my doctor said. The area where i was bitten on my neck while i was asleep was extremely achey, like i got wacked in the neck by a branch out in the woods or something similar. if i came up and punched you in the neck! hard enough to where you'd be in pain from it the next day....that's what it felt like.

ticks are unbelivably resourceful and will climb up anything tall that an animal will brush against with their fur gaining them access.

theres an herb called pennyroyal which is difficult to buy except at only certain seed sellers but its easy to buy as an extracted oil
at most specialty shops or health food stores. you can get some and soak a thick string in it to make pennyroyal collars at home.

The best preventative proceedure is to mow ...and weed wack true
but also when you come in from certain places you have to strip down naked and shower while isolating those clothes or else you bring them in. Certain places are infestated though. I'll never forget one day my wife and i were walking in a grassy field near the charles river and we purpously had our socks pulled up over our pant legs...for tick prevention. We stopped mid -way to do a tick inspection on each other using the buddy system and we were absolutely covered in them thangs...25 on each leg at least....so we got the hell out of there fast and grabbed a brush at the car and
made sure we weren't taking any home.