Maybe it's the "Goop"!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel H. Weiskotten" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: poison oak/ivy


> 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.
>