Your husband is right! - Compared to what you find here, nature in Europe is child's stuff:
- Many kinds of poisonous snakes, with rattlesnakes being my personal worst. Never got bitten, but came close to it several times while i lived in Texas
- Cougars, Coyotes, Wolfes, Brown-, Black and Grizzly bears who all would not hesitate to eat you alive
- Dangerous insects like scorpions and (my personal enemy #1) fire ants. I still have the scars from them on my legs after 12 years.
- Poisonous plants like ivy, oak, sumach and whatever else i don't know (yet)
There is nothing like that in Europe, just one mildly poisonous snake and plants are only dangerous when eaten. Well the Wolf is coming back from the east…
As said, i knew about poison ivy, but not the details. There is an article called »
Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis« to which is linked from the article about
Poison Ivy and only there one can find a hint about the delayed development of the rash and the itch, see
2. Cause: »
For people who have never been exposed or are not yet allergic to urushiol, it may take 10 to 21 days for a reaction to occur the first time.« - Well i certainly have not been exposed before and i do hope that there won't be another reaction next weekend, when i hit the 21 day mark…
It was too wet here this week to destroy the plant, but this weekend... The spray-bottle with Glyphosate is waiting in my shed. I bought the really evil stuff from Monsanto! I will fence off the area to [protect the duckies and then have my satisfaction!
