OK the gifts got a little out of hand, but the tree was very compact.On Christmas morning Janna came in to our room to say "Merry Christmas and get up please", but instead she said, "Eeeeeewwwww Dad, what's that on your back?" I said, "I don't know. Does it look like something I can pop?"
It turned out to be a tick about half finished getting inside of me. Here is most of him.
OK so you're looking at the whole thing except the head which is the hard part to get out. The right thing to do is heat a pin and zap the little sucker in the rear end. He then opens his mouth to say OOWW!, and he backs out of his hole to see who was rude enough to burn his backside just when he was having a good burrow. We tweezerd his back end and I nearly lifted off the bed before his body broke. Then it was a simple operation of sliding a needle under him, lifting hard and slitting him off with a little bit of my back. Burn me with some high power peroxide and I'm good to go.
One more gross thing.
This is called a grub worm. There are lots of these or at least pieces of them in the dry firewood you can chop up around here.Christmas was really fun, except for missing family. James and I finished his birthday with a campout about a mile out in the swamp. We got to see a possum up close while he was pretending not to be there. We went to sleep to the hooting of barred owls, and woke up to cardinals chirping. We also got to play 4 uninterrupted games of chess. Good night!
Hi Gals and guys! Nice tick Brent! It obviously had class.... prefers mature, aged Canadian meat!! As kids we were always picking up the same sort of tick but black- called them Wood Ticks. Mom would latch onto the body with tweezers and very slowly rotate to the left or right- they would then back out. If left unattended the body would swell to the size of a kidney bean, back its head out and drop off.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Happy New Year!! Alex and Sharon
(Sharon talked with John two or three times but couldn't convince him to join us for the Community Christmas dinner or a couple of other non-threatening events- said he preferred to stay on his own. We'll drop by in the near future with a small Christmas cake- S. had made several for various seniors and they were very popular. Alex)