That's an artful dodge, because you said more with less. Thank you again.

The tick problem is really bad this year in New York State. I'm not in the habit of using repellent, and I think maybe I should this year. I like the idea of applying to clothes because it might be easier to talk my wife into it. She's more afraid of chemicals than I am.

Also, we used permethrin heavily a couple of years ago when we got scabies, and she didn't complain about toxicity then. But we had a really serious problem to solve at the time. Scabies are terrible. Permethrin sounds reasonably safe.