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[micky]

I follow part of your advice. I never travel with the president or vice president.

[rbowman]

There isn't a lot about the east I miss but fireflies is one of them. The last time I saw them was at the Breaks Interstate Park a few years ago. The rhododendron were also gorgeous. The downside was after the firefly show was over it started raining at around 2AM. It had been raining for that last thousand miles but I wasn't camping out.

[rbowman]

White oak acorns aren't too bad. You can't boil red oak acorns long enough to get the tannic acid out.

[Ed P]

For a better, happier, trip, include your mother-in-law in that scenario.

[rbowman]

You might even want to book all your in-laws on the same flight. Is anybody still flying 737-MAXs?

It was too long ago for me to remember the details but a company lost most of its brain trust when they all were on the same flight. After that companies started spreading travel plans out.

[cshenk]

Ah well. I think it might be just my area of Virginia Beach. The great dysmal swamp is here and a lot of close to stagnant waterways. Lots of mosquitoes.

[rbowman]

George Washington wanted to drain the swamp but it didn't work for him either. I've canoed around in the Okefenokee but somehow 'dismal swamp' doesn't attract tourists any more than 'pine barrens'.

Having experienced hordes of mosquitoes in the wetter northern states I'm glad Montana is a little too arid for their taste. They seem to flourish for a couple of weeks and then they're gone in most places. No black flies or chiggers either.

[Ed P]

I've never seen a mosquito in FL. They do spray a couple of times a year. Come May, the love bugs come out for a couple of weeks. You have to clean the windshield but they don't bite.

Take a look at the front of this car. I've never seen one that bad but they exist

[rbowman]

You don't get out much, do you?

Drive down to Flamingo and take the Coastal Prairie trail out through the mangroves. Every step you take they rise up in a cloud in front of you.

Then there are the no-see-ums

I camped at Fernandina Beach, which I think is part of the Ft. Clinch State park now. I had an Eureka Draw-Tite tent which had a floor, door, and screened ventilation openings. It could keep Adirondack mosquitoes out but was no match for the midges. The sun went down and they attacked. I retreated to my car, a black 1960 Plymouth. That was great until the sun came up and it turned into a slow cooker. I'd driven to FL to see my girl friend the day I graduated from college so it would be early June.

I also recall mosquitoes when I camped in the Ocala and Apalachicola forests.

I can't remember where it was but it was a mangrove nature preserve. The mosquitoes attacked in the parking lot but once you were on the boardwalks through the grove the mosquito fish were on the job. I don't know what they lived on besides mosquitoes since they had exterminated them.

The Highland Hammock State Park at Sebring was also pleasantly bug free.

[micky]

I went boating in the Great Dismal Swamp once. About 1982. I was smart enough to row upstream first in case I got too tired to row back, I could just coast. I didn't find it dismal. Unfortunately when I got back, they had just painted the showers and I couldn't use one.

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:46:46 -0500, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...

Are you still signed in with one computer when you try to connect with the other? Maybe (probably) they only allow one instance at a time.

Get back to us.

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 08:24:56 -0500, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest...

Unfortunate.

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:30:01 +0000, cshenk posted for all of us to digest...

I remember you.

[Ed P]

Blocknews was having issues, but seems to be working OK now.

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On 06 Mar 2024 09:48:32 GMT, Cindy Hamilton posted for all of us to digest...

If you don't clean it out the house value will reflect that. Compare the value of the house before and after clean-out. There are plenty of clean-out services that will do it (Got junk). It's not a pleasant task. Also depends on how you want to play the inheritance taxes...

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:51:19 -0500, Ed P posted for all of us to digest...

Another one slipped in!

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:59:43 +0000, cshenk posted for all of us to digest...

Thank you for your service.

[Hiram T Schwantz]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 09:04:38 -0500, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest...

Whatever happened to the killer bees?