"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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I'm spending my time celebrating the first day of the year washing my
affected areas with Tecnu and then applying Calagel to reduce the itch
of the poison oak I got into a few days ago. What I thought was a
liana of wisteria turned out to be poison oak. No leaves, just a
finger-thick vine going up through the lilac into the tree I was
cutting back. The tree was courtesy of my neighbor, who refused to
have her worker cut her own tree.


Bummer.

The entire west slope of my property as well as most of the south side is
pretty much covered in it, but so far it's never really bothered me.

Fairly common along the lower Columbia.