No rash yet, about 36 hours after the first contact with poion ivy. Knock on wood, I think I'm okay. Maybe I'm immune, or maybe just careful enough about protection and cleanup.
I think I was exposed a third time yesterday: I mentioned that I tucked my pants into my socks, and afterwards just peeled the whole thing off and threw it in the washing machine. Well the socks went into the machine turned inside out. I was folding the laundry, absent-mindedly turned them right side out, and discovered they felt tacky-sticky, like an oil residue. Realized the stickiness must be poison ivy oil, which was now all over my hands, and freaked out. I must have washed my hands over a dozen times, alternating between the Tecnu, rubbing alcohol and hand soap. I guess it worked because my hands don't itch.
The last thing we had to do was make room in the parking area behind the house. We took the truck to my office in Hillsborough, I'm sure they won't mind me leaving it in the parking lot for a few days. Georg moved the old Prelude back so it's out of the way until we can get someone to tow it away. And we'll park our cars either out in front or around the corner.
And now we're ready for the goats! I don't know when they'll arrive tomorrow, or how many there will be. I wonder if they like people? Of course they must like their handler, but I wonder how they feel about strangers. I want to take pictures & I hope I'll be able to get relatively close to them.
All of the goats I've met before have come right up to me. They are curious animals and don't seem to mind strangers.
No one is "immune" to poison ivy, but people have very different sensitivities to it. You apparently are not very sensitive.
I make this point only so that you (or one of your readers) don't decide it can't affect you and as a result act carelessly around it. (I heard a story, when I was young, of a person who was so proud of the fact that he was "immune" that he actually bit into it, to his great regret.)
Rest assured I'm very careful about exposure. I've heard before that even people who don't have a reaction can develop one after repeat exposure so I try to minimize my exposure. Last weekend was the first time in many years that I had contact, that I know of. My father didn't have any reaction to poison ivy until late in life and then it came on with a vengeance, so it could definitely happen to me too.
I've even heard of people eating poison ivy on purpose, in hopes of giving themselves immunity! The People's Pharmacy wrote a column warning not to do this.