Karel on Nostr: Can't you see the little moon in the middle and the two stars around it? :) Anyway, ...

Can't you see the little moon in the middle and the two stars around it? :)
Anyway, we're not fighting mosquitoes. We figured that a never-ending battle with mosquitoes would mean diminishing our freedom more than we'd like. It's in the little things - one would have to constantly close and open the mosquito net, which is really huge for the whole side door, then it would discourage us from going out and in whenever we want, we would be constantly dealing with "close!", "don't open", "pull the mosquito net!", "let the dog inside", "let the kids inside" and that sort of thing.
They're small things, but it kind of takes away the feeling of moving organically between the van and the fireplace, between the outside and the inside (which is important to us, because being stuck inside behind a mosquito net with two kids and a giant dog isn't exactly cool - that is why we do not like winter either, because it is crucial for us to live inside and outside at the same time with the doors wide open).
Oh, and also... two kids and a dog... not very compatible with a thin, easily torn net.
I much more prefer to think of mosquito bites as meditation training now. One just needs to learn to ignore the illusory need to scratch (it's a useless signal anyway).
Sometimes I have good days, sometimes weaker :).
And then, of course, there are places that are unbearably infested with mosquitoes, but even a van with a mosquito net can't handle those places - no one wants to be cooped up inside all the time.