Ticks-our spring's favorite bug!

Taking a walk with friends who were visiting from the city, we made our way to the nearby lake.  It was summer time and we had been working in the garden prior. I kept on feeling something on my thigh as I walked, until I thought of checking what was really bothering me so. Upon lifting up my dress, there it was! It was a TICK!!!!My worst nightmare!I screamed and called my husband and begged him to take it away.Please take it away! was all i could say. Startled our friends feared the worst as i was also expecting at that time. When the frightening experience was over that incident was the talk of the day! So much for those little red looking things called ticks!!!