Buggy Beltane
So yesterday I ran some errands with my neighbor friend and we stopped at the mini mall to look at purses and shoes. It was one of those surreal days where all kinds of strangers went out of their way to smile and make eye contact with us and strike up conversations. Old ladies asked me where items were in the stores... a mom and daughter pair asked for our opinion on shoes for her prom. Store clerks asked where we were from (I guess assuming we were NOT from around here which I thought was odd?) and we got into a big conversation about all the garage sales going on, yada yada yada. While chatting, I kept feeling something itchy in my nappy messy hair bun and right in the middle of the conversation I reached back to my neck, felt a bump, and pulled a wood tick that had not yet engaged. Ack! Ick! As a natural reaction I threw it on the ground in disgust as soon as I realized what it was. Luckily Laurie was talking at the time so somehow, by the grace of gods, the clerks did not notice me pulling a bug out of my hair and throw it on the floor! I nervously scanned the ground for it hoping I could non challantly smash it with my shoe, but I wasn't about to stop our conversation and point out that I'm a freak and have bugs or pick it up and show them like a monkey in the zoo. It's not like you can just easily kill those things either, unless you smash them with a hammer, or my personal favorite, pee on them and flush them down the toilet. Meanwhile, I never did find it so there is now a tick residing in the carpeting of Sterling mall. We laughed about that the whole way home and the thought of it still has me itching... T'is the season to pull 2-3 off the dogs each day :/ Ugh.
When we got home we shared a beer and then I went for my Beltane walk. Such beautiful colors... and mmmm, smells delicous in the woods today. Makes me want to paint my toenails purple again. Oh and saw lots of mating toads in honor of the holiday too. Rumor has it, the hummingbirds are back in town so I have got to get my feeder cleaned out and up pronto.
When we got home we shared a beer and then I went for my Beltane walk. Such beautiful colors... and mmmm, smells delicous in the woods today. Makes me want to paint my toenails purple again. Oh and saw lots of mating toads in honor of the holiday too. Rumor has it, the hummingbirds are back in town so I have got to get my feeder cleaned out and up pronto.