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I have never been able to use Avon products. Severe allergy since high school and trying Heaven Sent.

I have heard many excellent reports on a lotion called Body Butter Baobab by NuSkin as a mosquito repellent. Pricey, but a little goes a long way!
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Llamalover,
Looking up online, there is specially treated clothing to prevent mosquito bites.
Hopefully, your DD uses repellant several times a day.

Do the bites make her sick?
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Send: My DD is hyper allergic to mosquitoes. Welts all over her legs and arms. Waterfront property doesn't help.
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ITRR,
Thank you! I will definitely look into it!
I do eat a high potassium diet, but maybe it is not being absorbed.

CWillie,
I know! I dislike Avon, but actually have seen that ants won't cross that powder or oil line. So not cosmetics, but for pest control, lol. My adopted philosophy when fighting pests is to be more of a nuisance than the pest.

I went door-to-door when I was younger. One customer was like the narcissists who keep you there for more than an hour before they will give you their order, talking crazy things. Definitely not worth it. So excruciatingly painful for me. I would never enter someone's house that was that crazy these days.
Seems unfair that Avon sells online and to stores undercutting their sales representatives. Kind of like the Fuller Brush Company did.
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Despite the hype I never thought the skin-so-soft worked very well (if at all) and I disliked the overpoweringly strong scent... IMO the repellents with lemon eucalyptus are much more effective (and smell nicer).
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Send, eat more potassium rich foods or take a supplement, mosquitoes hate potassium rich blood. Speaking from personal experience.
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Waiting for my order to arrive, Avon Skin-so-soft Lotion with Argan oil
so that I can safely go outside.
Mosquitoes are aggressive, plentiful, bite thru clothing, ankle biters, and I get painful, swollen bites.

I am either super-sensitive or allergic. Cannot use the usual chemicals for mosquito repellant.
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I'm so allergic I just try to avoid golden rod, which has always been problematic because the pasture fields surrounding my home and the roadside always have it growing. It's beautiful (especially when framed by darker tree trunks and grasses) but I cannot enjoy it.
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TN, do you ever use the goldenrod as a tincture?

You could harvest it and sell it to herbal companies, it is valuable and not always readily available.

Great natural antibiotic, unless you are allergic.
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Tonight is one of the best nights of the year for me: the temp drops and we have a light freeze. Bye bye golden rod! Pollen counts should drop from current high to at least mild by the weekend.
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You might try a mask with a little metal thingie across the nose. When I bend it to lay closer against my nose, my glasses don't fog as much. Sometimes I use a "healthcare" mask (like they give out at the doctor's office) because it has the metal bendie then layer my thicker cloth mask over it.
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Sig-other and I also got our senior flu shot. Glad that shot is out of the way. It's suppose to be a challenging flu season due to so many people not wearing their masks anymore.

I still mask up going into stores. I just wish there was some way to stop my eyeglasses from getting so fogged up. If I want to look at something in the store, I have to hold my breath !! I tried those anti-fog eyeglass sprays, all I can say don't waste your money.
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ITRR: Thank you very much.
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golden: Thank you so much. Good luck on your flu shot and scheduling your Bivalent.
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Pamzi, safe travels and fun times.

Becky, enjoy your visit with your BFF.

Golden and llama, prayers for easy shots and recovery, if needed.
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llama -Hope your arm doesn't get any sorer. I'm getting the senior's flu shot tomorrow and I can book for the bivalent in two weeks. It's not the latest bivalent but I suppose gives a little protection.
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I received my first Shringrix vaccine and the Bivalent today. Not any wait at all since I made sure to reschedule on a Sunday from the first attempt. Used my non dominant arm. Little sore, but not bad.
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Becky: Have a great visit with your friend! So sad that she lost her house due to Ian.
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PamZ: Have a great trip to see your aunt and cousins!
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My best friend from jr and senior high school is coming to visit this week. She lives in Florida. Lost her house on Sanibel Island in the hurricane. She's not moving back there. I'm looking forward to her visit.
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PamZ Have a fun and safe visit.
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My daughter and I are going to visit my aunt this tues. First time I have seen her in about a year and I am so excited.We are driving up in the morning and then back later. A cousin has made us lunch reservations and we hope to see another cousin too. Hubs will stay home and mind the puppers and such. We will split the driving. I baked her an Irish Cream cake, her birthday was 2 days ago, and she always loved this cake!
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Made it home tonight after a day spent mostly at the nascar park. Turned the wheel over to my 17 yo once we cleared the heavy traffic and let him finish the drive home. Ordered 5 large pizzas and picked them up; now I have the 5 kids from the trip and 4 more from the compound (step-brother, 2 cousins, and nephew's foster son's little boy who just turned 3) in the house watching 3 different movies. I'm exhausted! Older kids are going to see to the younger kids and clean up the food later. I think 4 or 5 will be spending the night here. Foster sons are in heaven. They have never had a vacation focused on stuff they wanted to do. Tomorrow will be devoted to laundry and then back to school (and basketball practice) on Monday.

First time I've been really happy for more than moments since I filed for my father's guardianship and started down the parental caregiving road. Isn't it strange that the old aunt gets such a kick out of running around with the kids?
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techie -glad it is going so well for you and your brood

ff - I use a mouse with my laptops, and hard mouse pads, have a backlit keyboard and set the magnification to suit me which may vary from day to day with CFS blurriness. To each his/her own!

glad - I am so sorry you lost your contract. I know you are looking forward to getting settled in a new home closer to work.
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Domino effect. Lost my contract, so did buyer, their home is now accepting backups and had been pending. Who knows, their buyer may have lost a contract too.😔😔
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Will never give up my desk top computer. For one, I can read the monitor so easily. Heavens, I bought my second-hand monitor for $50 about 15 years ago, still works like new. If I try to enlarge the font on my cellphone I would be reading one letter at a time. Don't forget, as we age, so do our eyes. I hope those who build future technology remember that.

I have what is a senior keyboard with easy to read letters, it's called "Keys U See", have had it for 10 years now. Yellow keys with black lettering. I tried to use a laptop, but the flat keyboard made my hands ache.

Have to use a mouse, because I have age related mild tremors, with a laptop that arrow was all over the place.

Sig-other use to use a laptop, but eventually he plugged in a new monitor, a senior keyboard, and a mouse. He was also running into age related issues and how is happy as a clam with his new setup.
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Real, we've still on our trip. This is the last full day and we head home tomorrow morning or early afternoon. Yes, the boys have had a lot of fun. Days spent in the hotel water park (mostly on the slides and in the wave pool), then a early supper and heading to the nascar park for a couple hours of go carts (larger carts for the bigger boys and smaller, slower carts for the younger boys), then back to the hotel for snacks and a movie. The advantage of bringing my 17 yo football player is he can lift the younger boys off the couch and carry them to their beds when they fall asleep during the movie. Last night instead of a restaurant meal they wanted pizza to save time. Nascar park closes at 8 this time of year; when I had the grand-nephews here before it was summer and they were open till midnight. They all want another trip next summer so I guess we'll be back; probably every year for a while.
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pamz - I decline Zoom meetings but of course you can't for work. My financial advisor in another city likes to do them. I chose a regular phone call - not even facetime - too distracting!
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Cwillie and Golden,, today I had to get into a zoom meeting for work,, holy heck it was a mess! I had to reload zoom,, no go! Finally got it on my Kindle of all things! I still could not talk, but at least they knew I attended!
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TN, Yikes, bears calling.

We attract javelina if we put pumpkins out or the trash can.

We have a herd about 15 strong with babies roaming our neighborhood right now. One of the adult males challenged my truck, I guess I got to close to the babies.

How was your trip? Everyone have a blast?
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