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WHAT: The Woodzie
WHAT? Festival In The Woods
HOW: Coleman Lanterns
WHEN: Next Woodzie is Spring 2009
BRING: Your Camping Stuff, A Casserole And A Woodzie State Of Mind.
WHERE: Near FM 1102 and Hoffman Lane in New Braunfels, TX
WHAT? Festival In The Woods
HOW: Coleman Lanterns
WHEN: Next Woodzie is Spring 2009
BRING: Your Camping Stuff, A Casserole And A Woodzie State Of Mind.
WHERE: Near FM 1102 and Hoffman Lane in New Braunfels, TX
14 comments:
it was dry enough to stunt the wildflowers this spring didn't it do the same to the mosquitoes?
... all else optional? I'm liking this.
if you're visualizing some kind of beautiful people Woodstock thing I don't think you're gonna get it. I know and love his group but we have a body mass index higher than the national debt.
My gut has just recently surpassed the square acreage of Rhode Island.
It's best that we keep our Woodzie t-shirts on.
Just this past week it's become difficult to work outside without the Cutter spray. Even though it's dry we have lots of low spots that hold water, and a pond, and even trees with niches full of standing agua that skeeters love to hatch in.
Of course, when I'm out there alone I'm the only target. Shouldn't be so bad when we spread the bites among lots of folk.
do they make Cutter in a thinning opaque?
I'm not saying that there's not a chance they won't be carrying us all off like the winged monkeys did the Scarecrow in the Wizard Of Oz but.... during the micro woodize where Pat, Mike, Brad, Jimmie, Evan and I sat out there at the woodzie site most of the night without any spray at all, nobody got a single mosquito bite.
They may rebound and hatch another batch this week but I can say this, I now just don't see them being any kind of real problem. For whatever reason they're not here like they have been most years. Certainly not going to be any kind of an annoyance that a light dusting with Cutter won't completely cure.
I think we can scratch them off the list of potential problems.
There was something truly enchanted about that particular spot, I really think we did have some kind of protection there, from mosquitos or any other bad thing. the rain storm that hit everywhere but right where we were, that little patch we gathered in is a really special place, holy ground.
well.... hatch another batch is what they did. I guess that was to be expected. Come prepared to use some repellent.
Now if you stop by the Super Happy Fun Land camp area, Flakey says the use some organic stuff that works great and he's says they'll treat you with with and you'll be glad. I think they have outdoor shows all the time so they know what they're doin'.
Sufferin' Swallows, Caped Crusader! Call Capistrano ASAP! Better still, buzz the Batcave--let's get some Mexican Freetail skeeter-eater action goin'! (Calm down, PW... these durned leotards get me het up ever' time) ...okay, back to the HD-DEET/take-no-prisoners option, then--nuke 'em till they puke, eh? Listen, I'm sure he's a splendid cat, but is it reasonable to place life/death-gauge faith in the unpublished research of a man whose friends call him 'Flaky'? Is Mr. Flaky a real scientist, like Glenn's a real Reverend? Anybody seen the brother's CV? Can I get a checkup from the neckup? Need a readout on the bleedout...man, I'm tore down from the floor down... actually, what I've done for years is to meditate on the little bloodsucker as she alights, let her freely take what she came for, wish her godspeed as she freely leaves, and thank the Great Spirit for allowing me to be of service to a fellow creature; this system also works fairly well on mosquitoes... :)Seriously, I'm seldom bitten, and when I am the bite seems neither to swell nor itch...also, I DO pack DEET, and lots of it, and netting too... :)
Glenn is a real reverend.
'tis true.
And I'm packin' Deep Woods OFF, loaded with DEET. Spray and wipes. The wipes are great for those tricky spots you don't want to spray, like eyeballs.
nobody at our camp saw a single mosquito. Saw several fire ant hills but just in general bugs were no problem at all.
what an awesome day. I keep telling people about it but it's hard to draw a mental picture of it.
well, they were out there they just weren't biting anybody. Maybe they bit Mike Fletcher and then couldn't see straight enough to fly.
Here's a fact, at some point during everybody's day and night in the woods they were within a few feet of spiders, scorpions, fire ants, snakes etc. but didn't know it. I expected to hear the occasional scream from the city slicker hippies but I never did. Maybe the Woodzie is like Wurstfest for the bugs, the locals stay home and hide.
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