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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Chiggers love Quilters

We drove the eight hours to Mother and Gene's house and hit the ground picking. We picked about three gallons of blueberries before it got too dark to see the berries. Then, we crashed and got up by 6:30 the next morning and picked nearly four more gallons. Apparently, chiggers have a particular fondness for quilters because Brandy and I both coated our bodies with sulphur powder but we were still the main course. Luckily, we are not going to a baseball game because we might get mistaken for one of the players.... no spitting or balls of any kind involved, but, oi, oi, oi, the scratching!!!

4 comments:

  1. I feel for you. Got chiggers for rhe first time two weeks ago. Pure misey.

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  2. Clear nail polish will kill them.

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  3. Does it have to be clear? I love color and am thinking multi-color polka dots, heh heh

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  4. so does dotting them with some unleaded gasoline, using a q-tip. Just be damned careful if they have nested in certain places - like the elastic areas of ur undies . Growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina - this was our cure over everything else.

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