Well, for once he’s correct.
Broken clock and all that…
Zackerly.
Thunderstorms. That’s rare for this area.
According to this, I’m gonna have to keep slathering myself with Skin So Soft and hope the masking keeps working. I might not be able to avoid wearing orange…can mosquitoes tell the difference between orange and brown? 
Also, bananas are a regular part of my diet, and there’s no way I’m giving up beer because of those bitey bloodsuckers. Dawn and dusk are when I’m going fishing and returning home from fishing, too. 
Maybe I could use these tactics to make someone else more attractive to mosquitoes, and hide behind them… 
Yup. Hang out with someone like me, whomst the mozzies find irresistible.
The bastards. Uh, pardon me. I should say bitches.
My annual warning that mosquitos carry deadly diseases.
My ex-husband, who was an avid runner and specimen of health, got viral encephalitis from a mosquito bite. I have memories of him waking me up in the middle of the night speaking nonsense; he was delirious. It was terrifying to see him so sick.
Had he been older, younger, or in worse health, he could have died. It is a deadly disease to about 50 percent of the people who get it.
WEAR DEET. It’s safe and it works.
DO NOT rely on “natural” repellants. They do not work.
YOU CAN DIE from diseases that mosquitos carry. They are not just a nuisance.
Local news recently ran a story about west nile virus in Michigan. They carry so many awful diseases!
we’ve had cases of dengue fever in the keys.
that one really scares me!
This is apparently what my bestie does when out with her sister’s family… they all hide behind her BIL, because they love him and will ignore everyone else if he’s around.
The first film in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams had a fox wedding. It unsettled me so much that I didn’t finish the film. My susceptibility to feeling unsettled was slightly enhanced at the time, though.
that is such a gorgeous picture! i absolutely loved every one of those vignettes. the foxes wedding was mysterious and sad.
if you have never revisited the entire movie, do! it is so beautiful, and yes, disturbing in places.
i think my overall favorite was The Peach Orchard. left me feeling a deep sadness, but overwhelmed in the stunningly beautiful scenery.
for a gut-punching, modern era Kurosawa movie, Rhapsody in August left me a sobbing mess. yet again, in his inimitable style, Kurosawa makes every scene an art piece. also - in keeping with this thread, the major thunderstorm at the end is crushing…
damn, i love those movies!
Oh yeah, I’m definitely going back to it! The fox wedding itself was an amazing scene, but the end of it felt like a punch to the gut. Like you said, it was so sad. It impacted me a bit too much at the time. When I get back to it I will probably avoid using any movie-enhancing substances!
Yow!
(For those who want to watch the foxes’ wedding part, it’s the first vignette, titled “Sunshine Through the Rain” 2:03-12:45)
Thanks for posting that.
Yesterday evening, I texted my kid and her partner to tell them to stay at the bar drinking instead of coming home.
Why, you might wonder?
One gauge west of Chicago’s United Center measured 5.12 inches of rain in 90 minutes, a rate the National Weather Service called “staggeringly high.”
It was solid sheets of water coming down, plus lightning.
You know how they say that smells trigger memories? I find that the weather does, too…
Today is the exact kind of warm and hazy day that my sisters and I (elementary and junior-high-school aged, left to our own devices on summer vacation) would roll our swimsuits inside a towel, pack peanut butter sandwiches, put them in the baskets of our blue Schwinn bikes, and ride across town to the community pool.
One summer I worked up the courage to dive off the high board—dive, not jump. I dove off the high board repeatedly that summer, but the next year felt too self-conscious to try.