Hi Myra, Having experienced the plant, I'm still willing to consider mace as less painful. I don't even blink at thick smoke, etc. But the first time (and only!) rubbing my eyes after using the plant caused me to rip out my contacts not caring where they ended up, and stuffed my face in the end of the hose for 10 minutes, tearing up the whole time. or maybe I'm just a woose? :-) (how do you spell woose?) Well George, I haven't been called evil in forever. Thanks, it makes me feel like less of a drudge. ;-) I would feel bad, but I think I remember something about you starting your winter garden in January? <BJG> How is your diet now? (I'm refering to sugar, etc., not your manzere size) I remember living in Hawaii, the locals would get a chuckle out of the new comeers suseptability to mosquitos. It seems we had a more sweet diet, and supposedly the mosquitos liked that. This came from several fisherman who lived on kim chee. Sort of like the sulfer pills, just tastes better going down. ;-) Are your skeeters the pretty black and white striped ones? Matt Trahan <matttrahan@ecsu.campus.mci.net> USDA zone 8, AHS heat zone 7, Sunset zone 31, northeastern N.C.