Just putting out a general service announcement to check yourselves regularly for ticks. My dad has been having flu-like symptoms on and off for a couple weeks and just came back positive for Lyme, erlichiosis and anaplasmosis. Heavy heavy doxycycline in the forecast. He hasn't developed an allergy to red meat though, so there's the silver lining.
Emphatically agree. My brother discovered a dead one in his kid's play area scattered among their stuffed animals/toys and had to do a rabies course for the whole family. Not a pleasant experience. Cost him a couple thousand bucks, and his insurance was billed a couple hundred thousand.
Hackleburg/Phil Campbell takes the cake for me as far as EF5 monsters go. However, purely from a menacing visual aesthetic goes, the Linneus MO and Keota IA wedges from last year are hard to beat.
Yeah, there's that. I don't particularly like treadmills though. They sort of do the work for me, if that makes sense. Boring as hell, too, unless there happens to be a gorgeous girl on the adjacent one (never happens).