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From: "Betty Brunson" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:25:02 -0800
References: <000f01c6427f$86590aa0$41b86747@Clegg>


Do you become immuned to them when you grow up in the area ?
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Absolutely not. You just learn to get prepared for them.

I remember my Mom saying ( this was before all the thing on the market today
to keep them off) that they would tie stripes of rags ,soaked in kerosene,
around their pants legs and sleeves to keep them off them when they were
picking wild blackberries.

Guess they didn't carry matches with them while picking those berries.

I think some people are immune to them, they seem never to get one. For
most they are memory makers for sure.

Betty BB



----- Original Message -----
From: Mary <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:11 PM
Subject: Fw: [ARIZARD-L] Re: Chiggers (off topic)


>
> 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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