Quote Originally Posted by Eden View Post
Squirrels will always run for the nearest tree - even if that means turning around and crossing back in front of danger...... Once you realize this it makes squirrel behavior relatively easy to predict.
Ah, westerners.

Around here it can take 20 seconds (an eternity when you're coming toward it at speed) and five or six changes of direction for a squirrel to decide exactly which one of the 200 or so trees with 20 feet of it is the nearest...

Quote Originally Posted by Melalvai View Post
and if you accidentally swallow a lightning bug on your commute, you get a bonus. Electrolytes!



The gnats we have in Ohio and the noseeums we have in Florida are two different things. Gnats swarm in clouds, pretty innocuous unless you get a mouth or eye full of them. Noseeums fly individually, they're half or less the size of northern gnats, and they bite mercilessly. Fortunately they don't leave the huge welts that mosquito and fly bites leave, you'll just look like you have the measles ...