Thread:Gloria1best/@comment-32738051-20160916062051/@comment-32738051-20160918133846

Actually, yes I will be...but not quite why you would think. I've been avoiding being outdoors too much this summer. One reason was the heat. But the other reason was poison ivy in my yard and I got the rash twice. Once really bad in April that lasted over 4 weeks and once again in July that lasted 6 weeks. Ugh!

Anyway, poison ivy season here is only through August, which means I am currently - and carefully - working to get rid of it while it is dormant and dying.

Florida is much worse than Georgia...I wouldn't be caught dead there outside the months of October through March. Usually November isn't bad for us here, not even for black ice but it is best to avoid Georgia in January and February, since that is when we're most likely to have ice storms. And Maine is great to visit in April (for the maple sugar camps) and in September (for the fall colors)...also cooler but not cold then and fewer bugs (Maine has the nastiest biting, bloodsucking horseflies in May-August). About 3/4 up the state is a park called Baxter State. That's where Mt. Katahdin is, the highest elevation in Maine and the northern end of the Appalachians...one of my favorite places in Maine. It used to be one could cross into Canada by land with only a valid driver's license but now you need a U.S. passport card or passport book (they don't stamp it if you use the book). But I'm sure being in Michigan you know all about that. 😉