Last weekend, I was down in Baltimore, as I am about every other weekend, to see my girlfriend... She comes up the other weekends for the most part... There is a tendency for us to work on some project in either location, my house, or landscaping here, or her classic car and apartment down there... This weekend was a car weekend.
We were doing some rust abatement on the floor pans and toe boards, when they swarmed... Now, I grew up in suburban New Jersey, and rural Pennsylvania... I've spent a year in Mississippi, and weeks in just about every other state east of the Mississippi... I've done lots of outdoor work, as well as hiking/fishing/outdoorsy stuff all over the place... I am familiar with mosquitoes, and I don't fear them... If I get bit, it swells up and is gone in a day pretty much...
They must be raising a special mosquito in Baltimore... Not only did they attack in force IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY, IN THE BRIGHT SUN, WITH A SLIGHT BREEZE, but the bites are still driving me nuts 2 days later...
I’m going to have to re-acquaint myself with DEET and Sting Kill…