Watch Those Ticks!

Back in the “old” days, my brother and sister and I played outside most of the
time. We didn’t watch TV and have all the great internet games like today. Gee, we
didn’t even have a computer back then. How did we survive?? But what we did have,
was occasional ticks, poison oak and poison ivy. Our parents were all the time trying to
figure out the old remedies to keep us safe and happy.

The following are steps to remove ticks:

▪ Remove the tick immediately wearing gloves. Grasp tick with clean tweezers as
close to the skin as possible to remove head and mouthparts and …read more