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Had to pick Parker up from the Walmart police and city police
Him and 4 other friends built a fort out of all the toilet paper and the dog beds...
I guess they did it this morning and after it was all put back they went back and didn't it again and Walmart had enough. They claim he his banned from all locations until he is 25. He is 15

Possible Aurora in northern states tonight

My disagree, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts in this case.

and there is a new tick spreading:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/11/11/asian-longhorned-tick-infestation/

Since 2017, researchers have watched as Asian longhorned ticks, an invasive species not usually found in the Western Hemisphere, have spread across the United States.

Now, researchers are using the gruesome deaths of three cows in Ohio to sound the alarm about the parasitic arachnids.

In an analysis in the Journal of Medical Entomology, they tracked the state’s first known established colony of the brown ticks. In 2021, a farmer contacted Ohio State University researchers, reporting that three of his cows had died during a tick infestation. The cause was exsanguination, suffered as tens of thousands of the ticks attacked the cows, including an adult bull, and bled them to death.

Researchers went to the pasture and dragged a muslin cloth along the ground, using a lint roller to pick up the sesame seed-sized creatures, which balloon to the size of a pea when feeding on blood. They managed to gather 9,287 ticks in just 90 minutes.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, the ticks have been spotted in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

We pulled three off our dog in the past two weeks.

@silvermouse said:
Just spent two minutes trying to remove a deer tick that had attached just below my eye. The skin there is so stretchy and the barbed lance so efficient I had to switch from fine point tick tweezers to a pair that could grab the whole critter before I could remove it. I hate ticks.

Same. Worked for a friend removing old fence for a few summers. I usually wore a white shirt regardless of how dirty I would get so I could see ticks better. No idea why but some years they are way worse than others. There were days when I'd count a hundred on me. Never had one attach to me though.

Just spent two minutes trying to remove a deer tick that had attached just below my eye. The skin there is so stretchy and the barbed lance so efficient I had to switch from fine point tick tweezers to a pair that could grab the whole critter before I could remove it. I hate ticks.

37 here and still no heat in the building. Damned gas company.

I remember that day. I got a ride one on one of those tanks.