How do you Nahthuners do it?

[BarryBobPosthole]

I have a bump on the side of my face, right at the top of a sideburn, where I got bit by a blackfly. On sunday of my first weekend in Canada. that was technically last month. He must've got a pint of blood out of me because when I finally felt him and slapped him I mashed a bunch of blood across my face that made a streak. He landed on the floor of the boat, shook his head a few times and got up and flew off laughing. The fucker. It still itches. And is still a bump.

How do you live with those dad gum things flying around up there?

BKB

[Bwana]

Don't have any of them around here or at least not that I am aware of. We do have what we refer to as Horse Flies though. They bite but are not the bloodsuckers like got ahold of you.

[BarryBobPosthole]

All I know about them is I completely understand why mooses are so dang surly. That thing is still a knot.

BKB

[johnboy]

I've had lots of experience with the infamous blackfly in northern Ontario, none of it pleasant! I remember driving around the lakehead many years ago with the soon-to-be missus and stopping at a little park for a picnic lunch. Five minutes in we were both swatting and scratching and covered with the little monsters. I wiped my forehead and came away with a bloody hand so we literally threw everything back in the car and beat a hasty retreat. The Scourge of the North!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo

[BarryBobPosthole]

You Canadians are quite the picnickers. Seriously. People don't do that often enough where I live.

BKB

[Buckrub]

Of course not. They'd melt.

[BarryBobPosthole]

We don't even do it in spring or fall when we could! We're lax in the picnic department. Face it. Another sign of social decline. Due to republicans likely. Killjoys.

BKB

[Buckrub]

This Republican still does it.

Sounds like a Democrat claiming he don't see nun of it. Typical blinders, can't see the obvious.

I don't have a basket though. Actually we do.....but don't use that. Nothin' like a baloney sammich and mustard on FRESH bread that's hotter than bejeebers from being in the sun in the car........mmmm.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I'm gonna go on a picnic. Just as soon as it stops raining. And gets cooler. And, wait, but that's the best time of year to fish....

BKB

[Buckrub]

See?

P.S.
What is this "fish" thing of which you speak?