A few words of advice to those of you new to my beloved South. If you’re not going to go back to your native land anytime soon (don't let this stop you and take a friend), you can add to the general comfort of your day by adding some baby powder to your underwear after every bath. Not the type made out of cornstarch. That just rolls up into icky little balls between the cheeks. I recommend using talc powder.

The "chiggar" / "chigger" / "redbug" search string is not being used as much as last year. The weather could have something to do with it and I've noticed on my pre-season exercises that I'm not getting the little s#!ts like I did last season. Still, if you itching and want to see what you can do about it, visit Natural History Biologist, Nina Bicknese who will tell you there ain't "nothing" that you really can do. The bug is long dead.