There’s something about Texas – if I didn’t live here, I wouldn’t live here.

We have 248 kinds of snakes in Texas and 246 of them will kill you.  We have hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, mad bulls, honky tonks where we mix guns, beer, and dancin’ with someone else’s wife, bad politicians, oil men who will steal the fillings out a child’s mouth, heat stroke, stinging jellyfish, fire ants, and blue northers.

We have mosquitoes that can carry off a small dog.  And now we have mosquitoes determined to kill you.  West Nile Virus is scampering all over Texas.

North Texas is experiencing a major outbreak of the disease this year, with a record number of reported cases. As of Thursday, Tarrant County had 131 reported cases, with one death, a Euless woman in her 60s with other medical issues, according to Tarrant County Public Health.

Now this would not be a big deal except that I am a woman in her sixties who is headed to North Texas this weekend.

I do not want my obituary to say, “a mosquito got her.”  I wanna die fighting something big, not a damn mosquito.  You can’t even shoot a mosquito so it doesn’t seem like a fair fight to me.

And hell, you don’t even know they’re there until they bite you.

By the way, fire ants won’t kill you.  They just make you wish you were dead.