Yikes!! Spiders the size of -- holey mackerel
I keep my eye on several different blogs. This is one of my favorites:
http://www.roundrockjournal.com/
On May 18th, he wrote about a tick:
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Adam took this photo with his dandy camera. He said that this is one of a hundred ticks he got to know on our visit last weekend.
Adam has always been a tick magnet. The whole family could go to the woods and fields and come out clean, but Adam would be covered with the little critters. I’m sure its metabolic. I think ticks are attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, and since Adam is the most athletic of us, perhaps he exudes the bouquet they seek.
In any case, we thought we would try to give a name to this tick. At first we thought of **** the Tick, but we knew someone named **** and the comparison didn’t work. Then we thought of Rick the Tick, but we also knew someone named Rick, so that was out.
We finally settled on Flick the Tick. It works as both a name and an instruction!
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The "athletic bouquet" is the part that stood out to me. Could it be...
Hugs.
Barb
PS: If you want to read the original post, you can. I just saw how the Crazed Asterisker modified my typing
