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  1. #76
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    You guys are cracking me up!
    I hate bugs like chiggers and black flies. And they hate our wonderful Seattle climate. I'll take this spitting cool rain any day over chiggers, black flies and horse flies. ANY DAY
    EXACTLY what I was thinking, mimitabby! Never leaving this state!
    Everyone Deserves a Lifetime

  2. #77
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    Quote Originally Posted by zencentury View Post
    I buy my chigger repellent from Wal-Mart.
    Made in China.
    Works great.
    I wear a spun polypropylene painter's coverall from Lowe's. Made in China. Totally non-recyclable. Looks like a hazmat suit. Doesn't leave smelly scary chemicals all over my skin. Works great.


    (but when I need a spray - Bite Blocker. Soybean oil & geranium oil, works as well as DEET and I'm not kidding.)
    Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler

  3. #78
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    I found a great bug repellant at our local "natural" pet supply store...got it for the puppy whom I can't put any flea stuff on yet because she's too small. Anyway, the company's called "Dirty and Harry" and it's green tea and lime bug and flea repellant. No chemicals, good for the dogs AND the humans, no rashes, no asthma, no bites. GREAT stuff! And smells good to boot!
    Kristen!

  4. #79
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    I feel better now

    In Arizona, we don't have those nasty bugs. Our heat fries them.

    Zen - you crack me up!!!
    To train a dog, you must be more interesting than dirt.

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    Trek FX 7.4 Hybrid

  5. #80
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    Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
    I wear a spun polypropylene painter's coverall from Lowe's. Made in China. Totally non-recyclable. Looks like a hazmat suit. Doesn't leave smelly scary chemicals all over my skin. Works great.


    (but when I need a spray - Bite Blocker. Soybean oil & geranium oil, works as well as DEET and I'm not kidding.)
    must be comfy when it's 90 degrees out there!
    Mimi Team TE BIANCHISTA
    for six tanks of gas you could have bought a bike.

  6. #81
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    Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
    must be comfy when it's 90 degrees out there!
    Actually it is, that's why I love it so much! Not the Tyvek ones which are heavy and don't breathe well. Air goes right through the spun polypro, but bugs can't, and in fact sweat forms and evaporates on my skin better than it does when it's covered with oily repellents (even natural ones).

    I live in the country, and often times in hot weather I'll do my gardening wearing the coverall and nothing else.
    Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler

 

 

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