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Mystery...sometimes it's a really wonderful thing in life. I do like to know what's going on most of the time with a twist of the unknown for excitement. But, there are mysteries that are maddening to me at this point. One happens overnight...I can find no logical explanation. If I try to catch it happening...I get nothing. This mystery also brings out a fit of OCD in me that can't be hidden. I find myself peaking out the windows...slipping around the garage like an undercover FBI agent... But to my demise the mystery remains.
My yard gets mowed every other Tuesday at this point. The cool air at night has slowed the growth of the grass in preparation for fall. Once my lawn is mowed and pampered it looks like green velvet. You just imagine rolling all over it and then popping a couple of benadryl to fight the allergy attack that will follow. This is why we only fantasize about the rolling around in the grass.
So you ask, "What are the mysteries?" Let me share my madness! Every Wednesday morning my yard is covered with fall foliage...leaves are everywhere. Example A: A Green tree with NO dead leaves. Example B: My yard covered in dead leaves (okay, let's call it fall foliage so it sounds better). Example C: Close up of Large Fall Foliage in it's perfect Brown wonderment!
Where are the leaves coming from? They are in my backyard as well. I look all the way up the street and down...NOT ONE yard has a single leaf on it. Their trees are also green. My neighborhood has a POA office that will send you a letter if you have weeds. I'm terrified that it will also arrive if you have leaves (and when I clean them up...they are back the next morning!) This letter of shame as I refer to it, absolutely can't show up in my mailbox. I would be mortified. This summer, I have stayed after the flower beds to keep them weed free. Another mystery unveiled itself as well.....
All my life I have heard the word chigger. Funny word...but, with all the pastures, woods and ditches I have played in during my life while growing up, I have never experienced a chigger. It sounds harmless enough and having not had one I was under the impression that a chigger was a very rare bug or pest...whatever you want to refer to it as...I have my own definition that's not fit to share with others.
Well, first time out in the flower beds...4 days later...I have this weird looking patch above my ankle...never in my life has something itched as bad as that patch. In a wild fit I searched the internet and discovered to my regret that it was chiggers. I treated the little patch and nearly lost my mind before it healed over the course of the next month! I spent a little time out there again 2 weeks ago and I was dressed from head to toe and had on rain boots that hit me at my knees. I sprayed so much "Off" on me that I am sure to have some sort of lung disease later in life. I'll be on the TV show, "Mystery Diagnosis" and will recall the fit of over spraying "Off". My OCD made me re-apply with frequency. Four days later a patch on my forearm...looked like a spider bite or even a snake bite....two marks in the center like a pair of fangs. It itched like a chigger family with out of town relatives had used me as a host for their family reunion. It's still driving me crazy...I bought a bottle of "chigger tox" on the last round. I have applied it over and over.
It still rages on...mentally I'm going with spider or snake. Two things that I believe the world could do without...spiders and snakes make my skin crawl and give me nightmares. However, in reality I know it's the dreaded chigger. It's an itching sensation that could send the weak to the mental ward with padded walls. A single chigger brings fear...you can smell the fear in me when I check out my flower beds. Yet another mystery though...my beds have been sprayed with every insecticide known to man (due to the fear)...and when I prefer spiders and snakes to a chigger...if you know me...then you know this is serious business.
Thus, the mysteries of my yard are great...I've posted proof of the "mystery of the leaves" on the square. I dare not post a picture of my "snake bite" for fear of angering the chiggers and awakening the Beasts of the yard.
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