Ronn wrote:
>One of the first years I taught I brought a
>bouquet of poison ivy in from the field and placed it in a vase in our
>faculty lounge.
I got extra credit for including poison ivy in my "leaf collection" for a
dendrology class while in forestry school. I was the first one, and as far
as I know, the only one since, desperate enough to collect one.
I also have some sort of nasty chemistry that ticks and such don't like. I
grew up outside of the tick and chigger regions, and never saw a tick until
a few years ago (and never a chigger that I know). Although I have been on
projects were ticks infest every fold of clothing and inch of skin I have
had only but two or three actual bites from ticks!
Dan W.