[Sca-cooks] Mosquitoes, was OT: Weather in Oertha

[Micheal]

 We don`t have many mosquitoes down here on the East coast . They have to 
get permission from the black flies, and no see ums to enter their air 
space. Oil of citronella is the sent of choice at most camping events, down 
here.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharron Albert" <morgana at gci.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Mosquitoes, was OT: Weather in Oertha


> Ysabeau said:
>>I remember camping near Valdez around '77. We actually packed up
>>and left in the in middle the night because of the mosquitos. Big,
>>Huge, Gigantic mosquitos...everywhere, all over, no place to hide!
>
> Lol!
>
> I used to go up on Murphy Dome to see the midnight sun on summer solstice. 
> We're just a little too south to see it without getting some elevation. 
> And we don't really have mountains, just some low ridges and mounds --  
> we're pretty much in a large low valley. The last time I tried to watch 
> the dip and rise of the sun (taking about 20 minutes) outside of a car, I 
> was driven away by the hoards of mosquitoes. We were slapping mosquitoes 
> in the car all the way home.
>
> Morgana
>
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