Iowa

unless you were in half a mile or so of a river. I usually managed to get bitten by something or other by this time, one or two itchy bites telling me they're not all completely discouraged.

This year has been extremely hot and very dry, so no bites thus far. There was a storm here on Saturday night with heavy hail and flooding and there have been widely scattered storms since then. That might or might not be enough to hatch a few hungry bugs but probably won't be.

I honestly don't miss bugs, it's one reason I live out here. I do miss a regular monsoon season instead of the 20+ years of drought we've had here.