when I was a kid growing up in Camas in the early 60's there was an awful misquito problem. I lived above a LL baseball Park...I side now another field was a swamp...near my home above was another, down the road another...There were all kinds of cool swamps for me my brother and friends to explore. Trucks used to drive around neighborhoods spraying into the air malathion...the problem became north country legend worthy... A program was started where kids were paid to collect smooshed misquitos in jars and turn them in... I collected a pint jar 3/4 full and got paid for it... Just went out to play all summer long with a jar to collect them... The municipality folks would put a notice in the paper for retrieval and one of the sites for check in was the LL ball Park below my house...Anyone else recall things such as this?
Skip Enge
Strange, I never had mosquitoes up by the Costco off of 205, nor in Portland. Must be swampy in Camas.
They are ferocious in Chicagoland where I live now, and even worse in The Driftless Area in the summer.
They are ferocious in Chicagoland where I live now, and even worse in The Driftless Area in the summer.
Hey jamma...do you remember the misquito wars back then? You were I believe living at Squish-squish then by the lake?
I recall a rather short 7 mile hike only to haul arse back out because of the misquitos...and deer flies
Hi Skip-
Please satisfy my curiosity. Are you intentionally misspelling mosquitos as misquitos, and if so, why?
Please satisfy my curiosity. Are you intentionally misspelling mosquitos as misquitos, and if so, why?
Hell at least I didn't spell it mesquitos...this is bug guy spellcheck...sorry ...I just don't miss them.
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