Well, everything has turned yellow with a heavy coat of pollen. I've stocked up on allergy pills and antihistamines.
I tried to do some necessary repairs outside around the house and ended up spending most of today coughing up a lung.
Anyone else having to deal with the evil yellow stuff? Its kinda making installations a bit of a nightmare for 4 to 6 weeks.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
Hey Glen, we thought spring was here last week, but after days of rain, and today, SNOW!!(at least it was snowing heavy up Grouse Mt. on our trail maintenance day today, COLD too!
So, where is spring? I don't think it's time to get in the first 26er of Tanqueray just yet, eh?
John / BIG TOP Graphics
Posted by R T Thomas (Member # 355) on :
Yeah Glenn, I know the pollen trip way too well. We actually have clouds of the stuff down here. Especially if we have no rain for quite a while. You can see it puffing up in huge yellow clouds when the wind blows. I've seen it so thick here at times that it looks like yellow fog!! I used to dread the pollen season. It would catch a huge dose of it for a month or so when I was home and then have to leave to go back to the mountains to work. Once I got back there the season was just beginning so I got a double dose every year!! Needless to say my sinuses didn't cooperate with me for about 4 months a year. It was a given. Sufferin as we speak, R.T.
Posted by Del Badry (Member # 114) on :
You think you pollen sufferer's have it bad.. i know its officialy spring here, when i see the first dead gopher on the hiway.. and well... road pizza season is back!
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Man I love that stuff! It's the only time of year I get that cool color changeing paint job look....red to yellow....back to red, back to yellow...Dude it is awsum!
Ahhhhh-choooooo!
Posted by Stephen Broughton (Member # 2237) on :
Same problem over here Glenn mate, Huge field of rape seed plants across the road from my house like a massive yellow blanket. Not enough time between sneezing and wiping my streaming eyes to eat.
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Spring? Thought we were finally out of winter.
The snow was almost all gone when I just woke up
to a foot of snow here in Edmonton. There goes
my installs for the day.
Have a good one.
[ April 15, 2002, 07:22 AM: Message edited by: Stevo Chartrand ]
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Hey Stevo,
Here's wishing you a merry christmas, comes late in your part eh?
My sinuses have been on red alert for 2 weeks now and you gotta love those painted signs that turn yellow right before your eyes.
I haven't seen tricks like that since college.
[ April 15, 2002, 07:32 AM: Message edited by: Bob Rochon ]
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
Oak trees, pecan trees, pine trees, ragweed.......
Allegra, Claritin, Afrin, Nasacort, Benadryl, Albuterol, Proventil.......I take 'em all
Spring for me....... Pollen and Drugs
Been suffering here. It starts with sore throat, sinus congestion, watery burning eyes, then progresses to burning lungs and bronchial tubes, then my asthma kicks in and I'm gasping for air. Sometimes it progresses to bronchitis.
All the rain we just had was a blessing though. I'm breathing much more easily now.
I still love Spring Try wearing a dust mask outside, it helps.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
Seattle doesn't know it's spring. We have had rain and wind storms. It's getting pretty old.....but I guess we don't have huge a pollen problem.
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Lagustrums are the worrrrrsee and they are all over the place. Then the lovebugs arrive for thier spring mid air mating season.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
We dont have too many allergens here in the desert, but if you are sensitive to blowing dust and sand you may not like it here.
Here's a couple pics I thought I'd share.. the first one is a sunset shot I took, facing across the lake at another small desert town.. the second pic is the very same shot, from the same location, taken of that very same town.. I took this one yesterday (Monday) to show how windy it gets here.. the other side of the lake is invisible.
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Oooooooh Stickie,
Nice pics...I'll have to catch you on chat sometime and get you to dcc some to me. These would make really nice backgrounds in murals.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Here's another one to drool over Linda.
By the way, no our lake doesnt run downhill, I just didnt notice the tripod not being level at first and since I already took a few pics I left the tripod as-is.. I took about 50 pics of this sunset to make a "stop-action" video of it so I wanted all frames in the same position.
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