re: How many ticks have you had in your life?

When I was about ten, we visited a relative outside Leesville. We played under a big oak tree in some sandy soil. I had been itching for a while but was having a great time, so I endured the itch. I looked down at my ankles and see this line of "sand;, thinking it looked kind of strange. I looked down in about ten minutes and saw the line had moved up a few inches. Realized it wasn't sand , but ticks. mom called them "seed" ticks. (I don't really know if they were ticks or chiggers, but they ate me up.) Grandmom put in a tub and dumped in some pine sol. I was miserable, hundreds of bites. So many bites my pride and joy turned purple.