Ooh, I like those!
I’m not a big fan of candy, but that’s a good one.
The nearby farm park has a mix of trails; paved, boardwalk, crushed stone/bridle path, fire roads, & some that aren’t even that much. They allow bow hunting of the deer long-legged, white-tailed rats from Oct thru mid-Feb. While walking on one of the main paths this winter, we found an arrow at the edge of the trail, which kinda scared the $#!+ outta me that one would land so close to the main trail & made it damn certain that I wouldn’t try any of the side trails; even picked up an orange vest to be on the main trails. As luck would have it, a couple of weeks after finding that arrow I pulled into the parking lot & started talking to a hunter who was there; trying to suss some info outta him about hunting rules & how not-/safe it is to be there for five months of the year. Turns out, it was his arrow & he dropped it out of his quiver while walking to his intended spot, which made me feel much safer being there; however, I still didn’t take that goat path in season. Since we’re outta bow season I tried it this afternoon; turns out it falls away to nothing; which left me two choices, turn around & go back from whence I came (which was soupy) or continue forward & trailblaze it knowing that I’d hit either a street or a trail that I knew at some point because the park is only so big. I make my way thru about ½ mile & can see the main trail about 10’ in front of me. Did I make it there unscathed? Nope, < 10’ to go is when my shin catches some sticky vegetation & put a nice bleeding line across the bottom of my shin. It wasn’t that bad but I made it 99% of the way unscathed.
Realizing where I was I did the rest of my regular loop & get in the car to drive home when my knee itches. When I go to scratch it I feel a bump & look down to find I’ve picked up a tickhicker. 
I guess it’s that time of the year already.
I get they have their place in the ecosystem but I don’t like them because of what they do to humans & puppers. Nasty little insects! 
And this is why my tournament bracket is in shambles. Iowa State easily knocked off Kentucky, Iowa led most of the game and beat Florida by one, and Kansas lost to St John’s on a layup at the buzzer after coming back from 14 down in the final minutes. March Madness indeed!
This morning’s The Villages lecture: Don’t let Bob pee on the same lawn twice or they’ll get phone calls complaining about it.
What the fuck? Listen. My dog pees where he pees. I respect all the ‘No Pee/No Poop Zone’ signs on people’s lawns, but moderating my dogs bowel movements for sake of the neighborhood is too fucking Stepford for me.