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The weather this year has been wet, very wet and that has given the mosquitoes perfect breeding conditions.

One day we were out working in the garden and backyard and the next day we had to tie ourselves down so the mosquitoes couldn’t carry us away with them.

I heard on the radio this morning that in some areas you could get as many as 29 bites per minute. I don’t know about you but two or three bites are enough for me.

We bought a kitchen tent this year so we could sit outside more without battling the bugs and I am thinking it might be my best purchase this year. That many mosquito bits per minute could drive me right over the edge.

My wife has the right idea when working in the yard when the black flies and mosquitoes are bad, she will wear a full body mesh that keeps them off. I don’t like to have anything around my head other than a hat so I prefer to use bug spray, even though it’s not good for me.

We are keeping anything that can hold water and allow the mosquitoes to multiple emptied and as dry as possible. The water that we want to keep from the rains so we don’t use so much city water is covered so that mosquitoes can’t use it to breed.

My wife and I went fishing on Sunday and I don’t envy the freedom the wild life has because they must be going mad. We have seen the deer and moose come right out of the bush and stand at the road just to get away from the bugs.

Hopefully as conditions get drier and hotter the black flies and mosquitoes will dry up and blow away.