{"id":18422,"date":"2022-03-07T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/the-great-indoors\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:18:09","slug":"the-great-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/the-great-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday was about 70\u00b0F. First nice day of the Spring. So we took the dogs on a hike up the hill that is our land. The dogs had fun. We got some here-comes-spring exercise. Yay us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the house about 15 minutes later, I felt something crawling on my arm. A little teeny tick! The fucking snow just melted, and these little fuckers are already out?!
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FUCK. Panic ensued, of course. Clothes stripped off, straight into the washer. Both dogs were bathed within the hour (because my sweetheart Navi is amazing) and both the floofs got their first spring flea and tick treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t stop feeling ticks crawling on me, even after a shower. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t go outside as much as I’d like. Ticks are one reason why. They keep finding new and scary tick-borne diseases that can really fuck you up. Fleas and ticks can give you everything from bubonic plague to Lyme’s disease, while they’re sucking your blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ticks. Fucking Parasites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Indoors is my haven. When vampire insects hitchhike their way in, breaching the sanctum walls, I kinda freak out. I felt ticks in the bed all night long (there were no ticks). I think I still feel them crawling on me this morning. (Is THAT one?!?) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s warm again, but it’s raining, so I’m not even tempted to go out for a hike. I don’t know when the next time I’ll be hiking up there, but there will be repellents involved. Bug spray. Long, light-colored pants. Hair in a ponytail AND a hat. Then I’ll avoid the tall grass, and woodpiles and logs, and stay out of thicket and undergrowth where they may be hiding, hoping to hitch a ride.<\/em> So they can kill me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe I’ll just stay inside, and enjoy the Great Indoors.
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Don’t ask me, I’m just a #GuyOnACouch ~jg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Gray – Musician, Writer, Fearer of Ticks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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