Things are buggy!

Things are hopping in Perth this weekend. There are road closures and traffic for three things: 

• KidFish at Tay River Basin,
• Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour: beginning at 7:30 a.m. June 21st, they bike to Kingston, and back on Sunday, June 22nd.
• Perth Kilt Run in the late afternoon. Road closure at 4:30. They are sold out!

We'll shop elsewhere, or early, and skip the market. It's a busy town!

Joe's gone back to walkies. I am glad. You have to dress for it. Our back deck is usually good, but we've mosquitoes, blackflies, and now deerflies. They don't know what season it is, it's late for blackflies and early for deerflies. I think he's going to walk in town after the other day!

🕷It is tick season. We're aren't doing too badly here. The spring adults are easy to spot. I felt one crawling up my elbow as I sat in my easy chair. I thought it was a spider and slapped at it. It went back into the folds of the chair. Then it climbed back up on me. I yelled for Joe to get the tick jar. Between us we got it into the jar, but it climbed out! There obviously wasn't enough rubbing alcohol in the jar. That's been fixed, and a new cotton pad put in. 

The nymphs are the small ones, newly born. They'll come around later in the season. The one on me is at 2 o'clock. We had 17 last year, most of them on me!

This sawyer was on the glass, and was tough to photograph. My hand helped! They look like ancient relations of dinosaurs!

Monochamus scutellatus

There was a flag to be hung up, I'd set it on the deck. Lifting it up, I disturbed a dock spider, some people call them fishing spiders, which landed overboard. It was huge! They do eat bugs...

Dolomedes tenebrosus

I loathed throwing this table out. The one board on top is rotting, the others are good. It was made by the previous owner out of heavy 6 x 6" pieces of wood. I removed and flipped the top boards.

Not so bad.

Cinnamon works so hard! He gets tired, too! The deerflies drive him batty, and he sticks close to the deck.

Happy weekend, all.