Parker County LifeStyle Spring 2020

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Summer Pests By Johnna Thomasson

Tips & tricks to help us tackle those true Texan Summer Pests, and I’m not talking about your nosey neighbor.

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ithout fail, every year we find ourselves mid-March, bundled up in our warmest attire, dreaming about sweet, sweet summertime. In our fantasy, we are on the lake, laid back, catching a tan, listening to the drip of our child’s ice cream cone melting faster than they can manage to lick it, when halfway through our daydream, BUZZZZ! And as soon as we recognize what that sound means, the bloodsucker has already managed to sink its disgusting snout into our neck and fly off before our hand even lands, leaving us the crazy lady who just smacked herself--mosquitos, the true sign of sweet, sweet summertime!

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