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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: Fw: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:11:29 -0800


Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)


> Some of you may be getting tired of the chigger stories, myself, I enjoy
> hearing them.
>
> I have often wondered.. with all the stories my Mom would tell of her life
> in Izard County,
> I do not recall her telling one single story about the chiggers ??? Do
> you become immune
> to them when you grow up in the area ?
>
> My first encounter was in a Texas Cemetery, a few days later I was
> scratching the back of
> legs furiously, telling a friend of mine, I have the most awful mosquito
> bites.. she looked at
> my legs and said "Mary, those are chigger bites!!!"
>
> Mary C. CA
> Mary
>
> http://www.freepages.rootsweb.com/brnbutr/~myfamily
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)
>
>
>> Several Years ago while we were in Mountain Home, Ark. my cousin Fred
>> took us to see his cabin that he was building near Mountain Home. I
>> covered myself with Skin so soft from Avon while my husband refused to
>> wear anything that smelled that bad, he was no sissy, altho' he was
>> warned. You guessed it, he came out of there with the little chiggers. I
>> thought that I would have to take him to the hospital, but of course he
>> refused, so after visiting Wallmart we stocked up on ointments, etc. He
>> now refuses to go anywhere near where chiggers might be, but he will
>> spray him self with repellent now, Ah, the memories, my cousin has
>> since passed away.
>> Betty Johanna
>>
>> --- wrote:
>>
>> From: "Wilma King" <>
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)
>> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:23:40 -0600
>>
>> Morning Cousin,
>> I'll tell you a story on Tom. This happened during his first year in
>> college. There was a kid from New York City who heard something about
>> chiggers, so Tommy invited him to come over to Pocahontas and they would
>> go
>> chigger hunting. So the two of them spent several hours in the pasture
>> and
>> woods here back of our house, and they didn't even find any tracks.
>> Needless to say, that poor city boy learned more than he ever wanted to
>> knnow about chiggers. I'm not sure Tom would want his story on the
>> "LIZARD
>> LIST. "
>>
>> Glad to know you are planning on a trip back here in July. What all are
>> you
>> planning---of course this is your headquarters. Butch and I have been
>> rather idly planning a short trip north into Missouri where some of the
>> King
>> family lived before they ever got to Arkansas. Pocahontas is planning a
>> big
>> sesqui-centennial todo this coming September. Tom's beard is getting
>> bigger, and Butch's little goatee is escaping along his jaws! Can't say
>> it
>> maked them any more good looking.
>>
>> ---
>> Wilma King
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)
>>
>>
>>>I had to add just one more chigger story ....Last year while visiting my
>>> Arkansas ancestors in the old Roberts Cemetery in Fulton Co somehow I
>>> took
>>> the
>>> whole tribe of those little buggers with me to the reunion in Nixa Mo.
>>> the
>>> next
>>> day! All the relatives told me about the clorox, the nail poilish, but
>>> still
>>> I itched, and scratched....then when I just thought all was well and
>>> flew
>>> back to Florida I found another Arkansas critter had rode home with
>>> me.A
>>> very
>>> large tic had imbedded himself on my back and thinking it was a very
>>> large
>>> mole-I asked someone to take a look...and he had come for the long
>>> haul!
>>> I plan to make another trip in July - but this time I'll take a bath in
>>> Off
>>> before I venture near! Stories are so neat! Thanks Izard!!!!!! Vola in
>>> Florida
>>>
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