Ah, me too! The only things that's keep the ticks low now is drought, but they're still around. I gotta find the sulfur dust in the shed and get out some repellent. Don't know for sure the sulfur dust works on ticks, but a park ranger taught us about the sock full of sulfur dust, put on shoes, socks and lower pants. Watched a PBS show about the poisonous frogs, snakes, spiders, scorpions, jellyfish, etc., they collect these natural venoms and scientists find they contain very important medical uses for parts of them that the actual toxic ingredient can be removed from. Amazing! The sad part is some of these creatures will probably go extinct soon because of what we're inadvertantly poisoning THEM with.