“Just make sure to rub your signs with poison ivy/oak/sumac. That’s how I found out it was my neighbor’s kid stealing my signs! “Wow Joe! That’s some nasty poison ivy! Where did you get into it?” Bwaaaaa!”
Great suggestion.
Our California Poison oak lives forever. One of sons used to get it several times a year, and he swore that he never got close to poison except once.
Apparently, after that one time he, got into his sleeping bag. Then everytime he got back into the sleeping bag, for years, he got reinfected. Finally a great doctor made the diagnosis, we got rid of the bag. That was over 30 years ago, and our son hasn’t had an infection/breakout since then.
“One of sons used to get it several times a year,”
When I was a kid, I could roll in it. Then, when I was 16, and a carpenter’s apprentice, we were framing a house, and a few lots away, the guys clearing a lot burnt some. I got it BAD! Can’t get near it now. I just bought throw-away rubber gloves, pulled some up, and rubbed it on the sign.