Accosted by blood suckers

Well spring must be here cause ticks have started appearing in masses. Neither I nor Buddy are getting quite the quality of sleep we did last week, thanks to the little blood suckers. But I console myself with the thought that early settlers, like Pierre Wibaux, had to put up with these same critters. And those folks had a much more difficult time of it since bug sprays either weren't available, or weren't very effective.

Still, I'm hoping that North Dakota won't be quite as full of these particular nuisances.