hello the fire, i've had enough of the 21st century and i'm going trekking,i don't mean to rub it in,but i'll be thinking about you all while the deerflies and their kin eat me alive while i attempt to get a fire started , i do plan to eat well,see you in a couple days

Have fun.

Jealous!!!!!

Best thing for deer flies is a straw hat. Take it off and they will bounce off your head 20 times a minute. Put on a straw hat and they go away. I wish I knew why!

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Originally posted by Pichou:
Jealous!!!!!

Best thing for deer flies is a straw hat. Take it off and they will bounce off your head 20 times a minute. Put on a straw hat and they go away. I wish I knew why!

...must be them Yankee deerflies--the one down here are not deterred by straw hats--or anything else that I have found. I wrapped a flypaper hatband around my straw hat years ago and caught a few that way, but gave up on the idea. Best thing is to take my wife along--she can catch and kill them suckers!

hey Mike R , can i take your wife along ? just kidding !!!!! i could take my wife and she could talk them to death in a 200yd circle,but that puts me danger close!!!

Well the deer flies up here (the brown ones with a spot on the wing) bounce off your head about 20 times before they try and land. If they do land it means a nasty bite. I'm not talkin' black fly type bite, I mean chunk o' flesh!

No wife. The GF is a tick magnet, just like I'm a chick magnet though. ROTFL

i'm back,the deer flies were't bad ,and were easy to kill,but between blow-flies and gnats,as soon as you stop the blow-flies are on ya,the gnats are in your eyes and ears w a constant buzzing,then when i stopped to set up camp,the buzzards started circleing,maybe i should check my deoderent ! then at night came the sapper squirrels,i was totally surrounded,luckely i choose easily defended postions(sp)! anyway,it was a wonderful time and i really needed it

Chuckles,
Those PA ridges are lovely this time of year. I eat some raw garlic when I first go out and the bugs let me alone. Other people do, too!
volatpluvia

Hey, 'Ploomie---I've got an idee that them ar'nge feathers'n'flimsies will do the same thing fer ye! Haw! Haw! Haw!

Just watch out for them wall-eyed blue herons a'googling at ye!

Smirkin'sticks

'Schticks,
Ms. Audrey said to me today, "you don't dress for Dixon's, do you?"
I said, "yes I do, especially if Miz Gabi gets my new outfit to me in time."
Go ahead and smirk! Haaaaaaaaaaw, Haaaaaaaaw, Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

plumes smiling from ear to ear