Category Archives: Maine woods

Taking the next step in tick control.

Our house is in a rural setting and our back yard is field and scrub as far back as you can see.  To say that ticks like it here is an understatement.  The first day we moved into this house 3 years ago, I found a tick on the bathroom floor.  I thought to myself, “Ooh, […]

Wait, I’m not ready!

The last week of summer vacation.  Facebook is fillled with staged photos of parents jumping for joy when the little terrors darlings climb back aboard the yellow-bus-of-freedom once more.  Now typically, I’d be cackling and counting down the days with the rest of the over-tired, had enough Mamas out there, but this year I’m….not.  Wait…what? […]