The Woods

Just wondering how others feel about going into the woods...we live in the woods and spring is around the corner.  It scares me to even look out the window.  Do others feel this way?

I LOVE to garden or should I say used to love to garden. Scares me to death and totally took the joy out of it for me. Boo hoo! Stupid ticks.

I used 2 love going to the woods in the summer with the hubby, dog an kids but I really don't think I will dare step foot in it again but then again you can pick a tick up from anywhere so not that sure, but do I really want to put myself through this again or even my children so the answer is no, you really could go on forever thinkin like this so my solution 2 this is I'm going to lock us all in the house and never go out again lol

to this day I will not sit out in my yard.

even tho the influx of ticks have moved on years ago.

I was petrified of my own home,  We live in   wooded area, pretty well beautiful but 3 years after we bought it we were swamped with ticks, pulled them off kids dogs ourselves every day tick check with tweezers. the fun ones were the ones half dug in, that spurted blood and would only have come out. halfway, this particular kind got my daughter sick. . 

they are gone now with the exception of maybe a few in the early spring. I heard they will settle and then move on and they did.

it takes awhile to get over it I will go to my folks and ride and sit by a campfire and they used to have ticks bad too, but like us will probably only wil get a few this spring if its anything like the last few years. 

i think I'll  go outdoors here now maybe even a bonfire, but will use deet and check, usually one can feel them crawling  they love the back of ears, and legs and in the hair.

I will not be debilitated by this disease and I will not be held prisoner. I have been infected three times now. The disease has colored twenty five years of my life but I still will not stop gardening, hiking and taking joy in the world.

For goodness sakes, we take risks all the time. When was the last time you thought about how dangerous it is to get in your car? Living is a dangerous and risky business but living in fear and cowering in the face of every potential threat is no way to live at all.

Please don't take offense at these words -- this is just me pulling myself up by my own bootstraps and facing my fears so I can enjoy life to its fullest.

I agree with Acheiving Grace here. I will not let those or any other bugs rob me of my life any more than they already have! I have pulled myself up by the bootstraps as well!

I would like to make a recommendation for a product - if I may - that I have absolutely NO connection with financially or otherwise - it just works!

I have used Ortho's Bug-B-Gone granules for two years in a row on our heavily wooded property, and are watching for the right time to do it again this year. We have put it out on what we have cleared, only about a half acre. I spread it heavily, & just how the instructions say to do it.

Although our dogs, who go out into the areas that are not treated & dig will pick up a few ticks each year, I have not been bit in 1 full year! The year before that I was out in the areas where it wasn't protected.

Back to the point - I use this twice a year - the first of Spring & then mid-summer & have had no issues.

If you chose to use this product, please be sure to read the instructions carefully.