The "Tick Magnet Chick" Key!

I am beyond amazed!  Last fall we looked forward to the first days of frost or freezing temperatures.  Then one of the worst winters with temperatures in single digits for days and weeks at a time never getting above freezing.  It was a sure thing that the fleas and ticks would meet their maker and end the vicious cycle that has been with a vengeance for the last few years.  Well friends lend me your ear or let's just say the British are not coming!  The ticks are coming, the ticks are here!

Drinking my morning coffee and giving Quincy his morning rub down (expected just like a treat is) I felt the old familiar wobbly bump on his neck and the old familiar sick feeling in my stomach.  How the hell is it possible to survive the winter for these little parasites?  My woods walks have just had a damper put on them!  It means every day I come back, do the "tick check" and take a shower.  If you know me well enough you know I have labeled myself as the "Tick Chick Magnet".  For some unknown reason the nasty, disgusting things love my blood. I am getting sick just writing about them.  They are a reality in my life that just continues to ruin my warm weather days.  It was only 40 yesterday but apparently warm enough to bring them out for nourishment and continue their life cycle.  Thanks to Quincy for the heads up warning and taking the first tick,  at least I can hopefully avoid sharing with the ugly parasite.  Twice I have been on the strong antibiotics for ticks.  Not nice, the meds make me sickish but better than the alternative.

Two summers ago I even brought a tick home from NC!  Even southern ticks think my blood is special.  That was the first bout of meds.  Apparently I can not feel them until they are well established, by then I have a lump the size of a golf ball and black and blue around it.  I'm finished..........can't say anymore!

Last summer I bought this "tick key"  it is "the bomb" for removing them.  It might have to be my summer necklace!  I hope you never have to remove a tick from yourself or animal, if you do remember the tick key for safety of not breaking the tick.  Then there is a real problem.  Good luck!

Here it is......the "Tick Key"  they cost 99 cents to $5.00 and worth it!

It just doesn't seem right to post a delicious recipe or picture of a good meal on this page.   I will have a couple good recipes tomorrow and one will have maple syrup for flavoring and sweetness.  Yum, Yum