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id be happy to!! :-) so ticks and other blood-sucking parasites are a really valuable source of food for reptiles and amphibians and birds! as well as small mammals, they latch onto larger animals, who usually have a longer life (so some of the nutrients in their blood wont get back ‘into circulation’ so to speak for a while), and drink their blood. the blood they drink has essential nutrients in it so when they get eaten the nutrients get put back into circulation (so tick latches onto deer and gets nutrients, then a lizard or bird eats that tick and has a meal and also passes some of those nutrients on into the soil and anything that eats it, etc. same thing for mosquitoes)

they also carry disease that, while gross and doesnt seem great, is actually really beneficial to the environment, and they are also really good environment indicators for making sure things are healthy! (too many ticks means that there is an increase in their food source, which may mean a decrease in predators, and the reverse is true too!)

Warning: Alcohol mention on #12 and #16, nsfw mention on #30, drug mention on #43

Date Ideas

1. Go to art galleries in downtown [redacted]

2. Go to the [redacted] art museum

3. Have a (borderlands?) game night

4. Go for nighttime walks in [redacted] nature park

5. Adventure down by the river

6. Go hiking

7. Go to a playground and fuck around on some swings

8. Go to the [redacted] zoo

9. Go to the farmers market

10. Go sledding on [redacted] hill

11. Go to local yard sales

12. At home wine tasting

13. Have an at home spa night (we could take a romantic bath together, do hair and face masks, I could give you a massage)

14. Have a picnic

15. Bake something new and homemade together

16. Painting date with wine/other alcohol

17. Go camping in your backyard

18. Go on a day trip to Chicago or [redacted nearby big city] to site see

19. Build a blanket fort and watch movies

20. Go to a library or bookstore, get each other our favorite books and we have to at least read the first chapter

21. Try geocaching

22. Take a free DIY class at Home Depot

23. Get free paint swatches from Home Depot and make a mural together

24. Test drive new cars that we’ll never buy

25. Go to open houses for houses we don’t plan to buy

26. Go thrift shopping together

27. Build a snowman or do snow angels, make hot chocolate afterwards

28. Work out together

29. Go ice skating

30. (nsfw) Go to a sex shop together and make fun of old porn DVDs

31. Make dinner together

32. Go to a restaurant at happy hour and order appetizers

33. Go to antique stores

34. Go to breakfast/brunch together

35. Go to a swing dance together, even if just to listen to live music

36. Make homemade pizza

37. Go to an orchard

38. Pretend we don’t know each other and go on a second first date

39. Find a cheap psychic and get a reading done, then laugh about how stupid it is after

40. Go to the [redacted] Conservatory in [redacted]

41. Go to the [redacted] Observatory and Planetarium in [redacted]

42. Go to the cat cafe

43. Get high and take a glow-stick bath