Bad news

Black flies. Yesterday, nothing. Today, I was up on the field in the evening and they were everywhere. And they bite. Folks around here say black fly season is Memorial Day to Fourth of July, so we are just starting. Last year we found that tea tree oil works pretty well to keep them at bay. Various other natural remedies can work too.

Luckily this year we live in a house where the screens fit. Last year, we rented an apartment in an old farmhouse. The screens in that place were so bad that when it got dark we had to just shut off the lights and go to sleep. Otherwise, if we stayed up with the lights on, all the black flies found their way into the apartment and made sleeping almost impossible. So we would go to sleep at 9:00pm and get up at 4-5:00am, which actually wasn't all that bad. Very in tune with the earth, and all of that jazz.