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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    "Just in case my reference was too cryptic, Edmund Gwenn, who played the scientist in "Them" also played Santa Claus (Kris Kringle) in the classic "Miracle on 34th Street"." No I got it. I'm not as stoopid as I look. There's a "keep watching the skies" group on Facebook. Sorry, I couldn't...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    Yes it's off on a tangent all right! The NJPB forum might need to brach out into science fiction! Thanks for the movie tip. I've never seen it, but i found it online and i will watch it: https://tubitv.com/movies/536879/the-flying-saucer-the-first-ufo-feature-film On the visible part of your...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    In the Plot Summary for Watch The Skies they mention some of my favorites, Destination Moon, the first movie I ever attended alone, playing with its co-feature, The Highwayman, based on Alfred Noyes' poem. I still remember both, especially the latter. The former, Destination, was considered...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    I read about how they created that sound: They combined bird sounds with insect sounds. "Santa Claus (Edmund Gwynne)has to save the day!" Wow I didn't know Santa Claus was the hero in this one too! I liked Santa Claus in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". I like Santa Claus. (re Jean...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    This is a dangerous planet. If one thing doesn't get you another thing will! It's the giant ants in "Them" that really worry me. I saw that movie when it first came out in 1954 and the sound they make is still stuck in my head...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    I don't know. It was the same ants in the same spot that got me recently two months apart. Medium sized, didn't appear to look unusual. Maybe I'll go back there and take their picture, but I'm afraid to do that. Maybe if I wear heavy boots (I usually wear sandals now because of my nerve damage...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    Noticing them is the problem, Boyd. Some with more sensitive skin notice them better than I do. Then the little rascals immediately head for the most obscure parts of the body to hide themselves. The ants that attacked me did that too. Right away they crawled under the straps of my sandal...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    Tell your ex mother in law that removing ticks with tweezers without breaking off their heads isn't an instinctive skill. (Removing them with gasoline, however, is.) ;-)
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    FAA Tower Area

    Bobpbx - Those levered windows in the cab of the abandoned trailer were the best kind. I used to use the shell in the back of my pickup truck as a camper, but they stopped making levered windows for them. The levered windows were best because you could leave them open or partially open in the...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    I'd like to see a video of someone doing that the proper way, close up. Not that I need it anymore (uh oh maybe I shouldn't have said that), but just to know what I used to be doing wrong.
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    I don't get ticks anymore but whenever i used to try to pull them out with a tweezers their head usually broke off in my body, and I used the gasoline trick hundreds if not thousands of times successfully. It would be hard to do it now anyway because of the way car gas tanks are built. I used...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    Could be.You're probably right. I don't know what it was, but there were two fang marks on my lower leg and then the leg swelling went down and it quickly got better, and as soon as I went down to 4,000 foot altitude my breathing was OK. I've been at altitudes like that before with no breathing...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    What was your technique for pulling ticks out? The best way I found to do it in the old days was to put a little gasoline on them and then they started wiggling and could be easily pulled out. I did that a lot back then. But then I read that that is a bad way to do it because it makes them...
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    I don't know. I didn't even feel it. I had been camping in Death Valley, CA and then I went hiking through tall grass at a beautiful spot called Darwin Falls. But than I drove up to very high altitude Bristlecone Pines National Forest and set up camp - but at night I had trouble breathing and...
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    Where is this?

    Oh my - especially the Pine Barrens! I didn't know they ever man fire towers any more. I don't recall seeing one manned since the late 1960's when I climbed up to talk to a fire ranger in the Catskill mountains. He told me he majored in forestry in college and one of my ancestors was a...
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    Where is this?

    The fire towers in the Pine Barrens are manned now!?
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    Visiting the Monster

    Is there any identifying writing on it? There are Utube videos of people finding old machinery and vehicles and managing to bring them back to life.
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    Northern Lights Over the Pines

    Like others have said, amazing photographs - and how much more amazing to have actually been there and seen it! I've never seen anything like it. PS Is your first name Rumpel?
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    A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?

    "...more exposure you get, the more sensitive you get" Might that be something related to what's been happening to me with insect - mostly ant - bites (that I wrote about in my self-deleted thread) because i never used to have a bad reaction to them? Oh, never mind...If u say "yes" or "no"...
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