" I don't believe Lyme's is particularly prevalent as far south as the Ozarks."

It's not, but it is here. The best way to avoid lyme is getting the ticks off fast, but you cannot avoid getting bit here if you're outside much. The shear number of them probably increases the odds a bit here, but the number of ticks carrying the disease is pretty low by percent here.

Sure glad to hear you caught it, and that you diagnosed it and looked for it. That's been the real problem in the past. It is hard to detect, and it's only been the past few years that doctors and patients looked for it as a cause of the symptoms.

I would love to find an safe organic pesticide for those little buggers. There has to be something...