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They’re horrible! I’m in the Barker Pass area, and most of us have finally put it together after years of being told there are no chiggers in SB. In the late 80s I did the test with standing a piece of dark cardboard in the yard, clear taped the resulting mites and got a positive ID from the entomologist at the Natural History Museum. I use repellent on my shoes and socks for even brief periods of yardwork. They used to appear in May and ease off around October, but this year they appeared in early April with one of those early heatwaves. I have too keep cortisone cream handy and hit the bites quickly. Also have to do laundry and shower every time I’m out in the garden.

Where were you when they opened up a tobacco store that sells drugs, mushrooms, nitrous among other things one block from a junior high school on MIlpas? Much more likely to do harm to students and a Gun store near a preschool. My god

Relevant chunk from CNN article: Some trees died immediately, the assessments found, but the long-term outlook is even more bleak: 60% to 80% of the trees are predicted to die based on the extent of the damage, Ana Cholo, a National Park Service spokesperson, told CNN. Only 2% of the grove was unburned, she added. “Because Torrey pines are not well adapted to fire, even low-severity burns may result in delayed mortality,” Cholo said. “A detailed assessment is underway, and the full extent of impacts may not be known for at least a year.” The loss could have trickle-down effects on the island. These scaly, contorted pines, positioned on sandstone bluffs above the sea, catch fog with their needles, funneling water to their roots as well as neighboring plants and animals. “Plants like this affect local water availability and can make a huge difference in terms of how much water is captured by life on the ground,” Heather Schneider, the director of conservation and research at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, told CNN.

Interesting. I’d never heard of these before. I would like to point out though, that another possibility is chiggers. We do have them here in Santa Barbara, and they arrive in the warm months as well, cannot be seen, and the bites cause extremely itchy welts that last for weeks. One way to differentiate might be to think about where you’re getting bitten, since chiggers don’t fly and prefer to bite where they find constriction, such as the top of socks, behind your knee, at the waistband. Chiggers tend to exist here in geographical “patches” and if you’re in one, believe me, you know!

Another $250 a couple dinner with s single glass of wine each and eating the middle and $350 for the nice entrees and wine. Don't you ever mention this trend?

The Win Dow on Chapala/Ortega.

Do you have an opinion on the Hidden Oaks Golf Estate and its price moves considering course is pretty much gone, the CUP encumbers, price from 6m to 15M to now 9.8M in 5 years and how one might consider the true valuation of the 1.9 acre parcel with clubhouse - leaving the 9 acre dead course out of the valuation? Thank you in advance, love the way you write!

Guns shops sell clay pigeons that are used for sport, alongside alongside essential items like ammunition, tactical holsters, optics, and cleaning kits- so there are a multitude of reasons one might visit a shop. I found this info on Google: Many major U.S. mass shootings involve weapons legally purchased from federally licensed gun shops, though the actual attacks themselves typically occur elsewhere (such as schools, supermarkets, or workplaces) rather than inside the store. So it seems like the biggest issue would be criminals looking to rob the gun shop- that is a bigger possibility than a shooting occuring if you use statistics- using this info I found on Google: Mass shootings rarely originate physically at gun shops, though the weapons used in them are frequently purchased legally from licensed dealers. Conversely, robberies and burglaries targeting gun shops occur regularly to source underground market weapons, but very rarely evolve into public mass shootings. Makes ya think!

As someone who drives this stretch of DLV daily, there are more cars than bikes on the road and taking away another lane is only going to create even more traffic and congestion. No matter how much of a "road diet" SB tries to force on people, the truth is that this is still a town full of tourists, commuters and workers - all in cars. Those populations will never be bicyclists and continually taking away roads only fuels more traffic and endangers everyone.

I disagree. It’s so much nicer and more chill driving down Chapala and De La Vina where they made it one lane for cars + a bike lane. They were too narrow and sketchy for 2 cars to drive side. And that’s how it is now on DLV where they’re proposing this change

Santa Barbara is completely trying to make driving miserable as it is with that one lane you can’t get across it when there’s traffic on Dela vina Street and nobody rides their bicycle on Dela vina Street everyone is on State Street. That’s why they closed it.