Illinois...

[Molpet]

Thanks very much for this!
It's good to remember that this treatment doesn't work well for head lice anymore, they've become immune to the pesticide. That's one reason I only treat when I know I have an infestation.

So far I haven't read that mites and lice have become immune to sulfur... works on the dog for fleas and tick prevention... and me... just stinks, but I take a shower before I go to town anyway

 

[SnootyHen]

Now that I am reading all this, I think *I* have mites!!! I've had really dry, painful cracked hands with some little raised bumps showing up here and there for almost a year now. When I first noticed they were super dry, I thought it was because I was doing a lot of painting and home projects and then gardening. But then it didn't go away and kept getting worse. Sometimes I'll take a Benedryl and I've tried cortisone creams and darn near anything to help them. The only time they get better is when I am in FL so then I thought maybe the humidity there was helping. But it actually makes more sense that it's mite bites that I am scratching (although I try hard not to). I guess it's dusting time!!!

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

https://patch.com/illinois/manhattan/bobcats-caught-game-camera-kankakee-sands-preserve

I know I will sound crazy but I saw the back of either a bear or jaguar (black bobcat, mountain lion, something ). I was working late out rte 6 in joliet by I&M canal. Look over 2 trailers and I see the black back of an animal just the other side of the trailer. It was 24"-30" tall. I looked away 3 times to rest my eyes and make sure i wasn't imagining this. After opening my eyes the 3rd time i made 15' dash to my truck in 2 steps. Never saw it again.

Or black cougar

 

[Molpet]

https://patch.com/illinois/manhattan/bobcats-caught-game-camera-kankakee-sands-preserve

I know I will sound crazy but I saw the back of either a bear or jaguar (black bobcat, mountain lion, something ). I was working late out rte 6 in joliet by I&M canal. Look over 2 trailers and I see the black back of an animal just the other side of the trailer. It was 24"-30" tall. I looked away 3 times to rest my eyes and make sure i wasn't imagining this. After opening my eyes the 3rd time i made 15' dash to my truck in 2 steps. Never saw it again.

How long ago? Could have been a dark phase of some kind of wild cat. There was talk of a black panther sightings, but I don't remember when. Maybe the 70s or 80s

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

. Next day reports of mountain lion... following hickory creek. For a week reports of it through Joliet along desplain river

I grew up right by hickory creek. My dad still lives there. Every winter when it freezes we take a trip up it till someone falls in or till we get too cold.. you would never believe we are in the middle of the ghetto.
DS and DD

A deer path to pass thin ice section

It's an awesome adventure. I'd love to go in summer but too many broken bottles and debris for a safe journey. I played in that creek so much when I was little. One time I stepped on broken glass and got a terrible infection and doctors thought I had spinalingitis. Thankfully it cleared up. I used to eat the crawfish I caught in there. It's a miracle I'm alive today lol.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

How long ago? Could have been a dark phase of some kind of wild cat. There was talk of a black panther sightings, but I don't remember when. Maybe the 70s or 80s

3 years ago.

 

[Molpet]

I grew up right by hickory creek. My dad still lives there. Every winter when it freezes we take a trip up it till someone falls in or till we get too cold.. you would never believe we are in the middle of the ghetto.
DS and DD
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It's an awesome adventure. I'd love to go in summer but too many broken bottles and debris for a safe journey. I played in that creek so much when I was little. One time I stepped on broken glass and got a terrible infection and doctors thought I had spinalingitis. Thankfully it cleared up. I used to eat the crawfish I caught in there. It's a miracle I'm alive today lol.

Lol but you all have good fun.
Well except the infection, but that's a danger of being barefoot. I used to eat fish I caught in hickory creek, didn't think much about it, blue gills mainly. My brother said one was a small mouth bass and we threw it back in.

 

[Justso]

https://patch.com/illinois/manhattan/bobcats-caught-game-camera-kankakee-sands-preserve

I know I will sound crazy but I saw the back of either a bear or jaguar (black bobcat, mountain lion, something ). I was working late out rte 6 in joliet by I&M canal. Look over 2 trailers and I see the black back of an animal just the other side of the trailer. It was 24"-30" tall. I looked away 3 times to rest my eyes and make sure i wasn't imagining this. After opening my eyes the 3rd time i made 15' dash to my truck in 2 steps. Never saw it again.

Or black cougar

Or a black squirrel? I wonder how big they get

 

[BReeder!]

Or a black squirrel? I wonder how big they get

Not that big. Lol

 

[Molpet]

Or a black squirrel? I wonder how big they get

The black squirrel is a color variety of gray or fox squirrel, so I don't think it's that.