Bug Spray

Eureka!

For years (my entire life, actually) I have been bug lunch. I tried everything – even the icky commercial repellents didn’t work. I’ve always known I have a weird physiology but to not have a single one work? I had pretty much resigned myself to not being able to enjoy our deck in the evenings without slapping myself silly then spending the next week scratching bug bites.

Until…a friend from Alaska (where, like Minnesota, the mosquito is the unofficial state bird) suggested a combinat...