The tick season has started, yay.

April 15, 2023

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Well we have to take the good with the bad I’m afraid and yesterday I found a tick on Alma. So I brought the tick repellent spray (it is supposed to help towards the biting flies too but that’s harder to check) from the cupboard. It smells like one of those cheap perfumes one can buy when going to (in our case) either the Canary Islands or somewhere along the mediterranean coast. They might smell nice there because You actually think more of the surroundings than what it actually smells but way too much here at home 🙂 🙂

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Alma has a very well made harness when we’re out walking and it has two attachments for the leash. Well today Alma tore off the one in the front so now there’s only one place. I’m amazed that it lasted this long to be honest but surprised at the same time since she has calmed down considerable. I guess that seeing two deer was one too many 🙂 🙂 She behaved much better on our second walk. Thankfully the attachment that still is there looks like that if she managed to break that one she would rip the entire harness apart 🙂 🙂 🙂

The beekeeper seem to have lost one hive this winter.

I might have to buy a new spray because I just picked a tiny tick from Alma, it walked on her where her fur is lighter colored and the tick was black, the tick is no longer. It is rather nice outside even though we have a rather feisty wind. The morning was dark and cloudy but the cloudy sky has more cracks in it now so we do see the sun every now and again. Tomorrow will be all sun though according to their guessing. They have already started to lower the temperatures they’re guessing we’ll have around next weekend so I’ll have a few work friends who planned to fill up their outdoors bathtubs feel rather sad 🙂 Ever never believe what Swedish weather sites and meteorologists say if it is longer than twenty minutes into the future, sometimes they don’t even get the weather we just had right 🙂 🙂 🙂

This is the only bush with flower buds I could find unless one counts the willow we passed on our walk today.

a (19) — We call this one Porcelain Hyacinth (Pushkinia scilloides).

Have a great day!

a (3) — The swamp behind my garage. There was a really beautiful duck swimming around there this morning but Alma refused to stand still so all photos I tried to take were so fuzzy it was hard to see anything.

4 responses to “The tick season has started, yay.”

Caryn

April 15, 2023

Tick season here started a few weeks ago. I pulled a couple off Piki Dog at that time but haven’t seen any since. I spray them both with flea and tick killer. I spray me too. Well, my clothes anyway. It smells like eucalyptus and pennyroyal and makes me sneeze. For days after I’ve sprayed them, Rocky makes a wide detour around the spot where I sprayed them. I don’t blame him. 😄

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1. Christer.
  
  April 16, 2023
  
  Hi Caryn!
  
  I’ve taken two from Alma who already had bitten her and one that walked around on her. The spray I use does make us sneeze too but only just after I’ve used it thankfully 🙂 Then again this spray doesn’t kill only repell.
  
  Have a great day!
  
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katry

April 16, 2023

Christer,
It was a warmish winter with little snow, about an inch and a half so I fear this will be a terrible tick season. I found one on Nala, in her ear, a while back. It hadn’t attached yet. Her fur is so short I can see them moving. I found 4 fleas on her, the first ever, a month or so back. Both dogs are wearing collars now.

The harness I bought for Henry is guaranteed for life. I have returned two for new ones. Henry chewed them both off. The third one broke so it now has to be replaced. He was actually okay with wearing the third one. Nala doesn’t mind a harness.

My hyacinths have bloomed as has my forsythia bush. It is a beautifully bright yellow. It screams of spring.

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1. Christer.
  
  April 16, 2023
  
  Hi Kat!
  
  We’ve had an unusual warm winter but when it came it came late and was pretty cold. I think we in average have had two degrees centigrade warmer in average than the winters before 2000.
  I’ve taken two who already had bitten Alma yesterday and one that was walking around on her. I’ll go through them all before we go to bed tonight.
  
  WE don’t have that life time guarantee here. I remember we had it back in the days but now it’s one year or what ever the law says (which is usually longer.
  
  No bushes have flowered yet but with these nice days it’s just a matter of time 🙂
  
  Have a great day!
  
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