when I say "the sticks", I mean THE STICKS. Lyme disease has never been a problem here...we have no trees and no large game to speak of. just hundreds of miles of empty, flat, vastness with a few jackrabbits and the occasional rattlesnake.
Ahhhh...I consider where I live "in the sticks" but I live in the Texas Hill Country. Lots of ticks, fire ants and scorpions! We've only seen one rattlesnake in 15 years and my dogs killed it. They also got ahold of skunk and killed it last weekend...yikes!