In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I have as many meds for my allergies, but they're very different kinds.
Active rain clears outdoor air pretty well. (I can tell by how my allergies are doing, plus we see it in our particulate matter measurements.) But when it stops - oy vey. Then everything blooms - trees, grasses, molds ... and it all just freely floats away on the faintest breeze.
I don't know about you, but for me, just trying to get enough air can be hell.
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"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
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I got one of those Aedes aegypti mosquito bites, on the outside of my hand between thumb and forefinger.
You're right Signy - DAMN !! but does it itch.
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I can't tell if this is the thread about food, GMO and pesticide, and stuff - I keep finding posts about snow and such.
Anyhow, saw this article about Skippy peanut butter no longer available in Canada.
Apparently it has a different formula for Canada - less sugar. And the requirement of 2 languages adds to the cost of the product.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/skippy-peanut-butter-no-longer-09000
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Quote:The Dakotas had blizzards last week.
Originally posted by Brenda:
And as to the weather. Rain, rain and possibly oh more rain.
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BRENDA - So I looked up "Reactine" and as it turns out that's the same as our "Zyrtec". I was wondering - when you get stuffed up, are your symptoms all in your eyes (red, watery, itchy) and nose (drippy, stuffed)? Or do your symptoms extend to wheezing?
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Crazy, crazy weather here. For a week it was windy. That's not unusual for places OTHER THAN SoCal, and not unheard-of in the canyons and passes (where winds funnel down from the high desert thru the mountains to the coastal lowlands) but here, in the flatlands, anything over 20 mph is unusual and a week of wind is unheard-of. Every day that I came home from work there were new palm fronds and pine boughs on the ground.
Then, it got hot. Not springtime hot but midsummer hot - 90+ for a week. And Saturday, we had an amazing thunderstorm. We were out playing tennis and keeping a eye on the clouds ... we could see one storm band coming at us but fortunately it slid sideways and passed us to the west. We were just finishing up when another storm band headed right our way, and once dear daughter got zapped by her racket we decided to pack up. On the way home from the courts we got LIGHTNING! And THUNDER! and BIG RAIN DROPS! And even BIGGER RAIN DROPS! And then all hell broke loose - the hail went from small to pea-sized and the clouds unzipped and just dumped water on us while the lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Even a Buffalonian would have noticed. It was a furious storm, but very brief - fifteen minutes, maybe. In two hours, the sun was shining and the birds were singing their evening songs. Sunday was pretty chilly - for here- but Monday was the weather we dream of here: mid-70s, clear, breezy, and blessedly refreshed by the rain.
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However, the thunder scared the crap out of the dog - literally- and unbeknownst to us she left a steamy pile on the doorstep, which got tracked a bit into the laundry area. Cleanup on aisle two! We are still trying to figure this dog out. She's extremely attentive to disapproval, but I felt we just weren't clicking with her previous training because she wasn't entirely housebroken and we were trying to figure out how to accomplish that. In desperation I decided to try "crate training" her first .... and it appears that she's already been crate trained, which is a missing part of the puzzle, I think. She LOVES being in her carrier. This will make (re?)housetraining so much easier.
We're thinking of calling her either Pogo (She has so much energy she literally bounces all four feet off the ground when she plays) or Zippy (She's really, really fast.) Which one would you pick?
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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I was just out de-weeding the hasta area in front of my house and BIIIIG problem with my sump/drainage system......
Looks like the water is getting out of the house, but right outside there must be a huge crack in the pipe. There was about a 1'x1'x1' hole next to the foundation and I thought "GREAT. WTF dug that out????!!!". Just then the sump system came on and water started filling the GD hole.
That amount of erosion doesn't happen overnight, so it's probably been doing it since winter started and is probably why the seal busted and I had all of those problems inside back in December.
Here's hoping that it's an easy fix and I don't have a nightmare on my hands.
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BRENDA< glad to know that your allergy symptoms don't extend to wheezing. Long-term asthma is dangerous, so if at any point your symptoms should progress you need to be as persistent as necessary to get your symptoms treated!
As an allergy sufferer whose symptoms start at the eyes and nose and work their way down more-or-less continuously thru the nasopharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi and bronchioles.... there IS something a little tricky that allergies can do, and that's swell up your nasopharynx, soft palate, and uvula. It sometimes goes by the name of Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) and while some doctors don't believe it exists, hubby had it so bad that he was treated surgically - by a major university hospital - which trimmed his turbinates, straightened his septum, removed his uvula and scarred his soft palate (The scar formation caused his soft palate to lift). He used to have severe sleep apnea, but no more! Plus he was getting allergy shots.
Anyway. should your allergies cause you more symptoms, there are options besides surgery. There is a steroid NASAL spray which is a powder, here called Qnasl, which penetrates better and farther than any liquid-mist spray, which could be very useful.
http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20120326/fda-approves-dry-nose-spr
ay-for-allergy
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Hey SIX, how's the sump drain going???
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Quote:Well since you have had the experience of seeing what your brother went thru, it seems you're forewarned. I'm glad. This kind of thing can really sneak up on people and I'd hate to think of it sneaking up on you.
BRENDA< glad to know that your allergy symptoms don't extend to wheezing. Long-term asthma is dangerous, so if at any point your symptoms should progress you need to be as persistent as necessary to get your symptoms treated!
As an allergy sufferer whose symptoms start at the eyes and nose and work their way down more-or-less continuously thru the nasopharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi and bronchioles.... there IS something a little tricky that allergies can do, and that's swell up your nasopharynx, soft palate, and uvula. It sometimes goes by the name of Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) and while some doctors don't believe it exists, hubby had it so bad that he was treated surgically - by a major university hospital - which trimmed his turbinates, straightened his septum, removed his uvula and scarred his soft palate (The scar formation caused his soft palate to lift). He used to have severe sleep apnea, but no more! Plus he was getting allergy shots.
Anyway. should your allergies cause you more symptoms, there are options besides surgery. There is a steroid NASAL spray which is a powder, here called Qnasl, which penetrates better and farther than any liquid-mist spray, which could be very useful.
http://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20120326/fda-approves-dry-nose-spr
ay-for-allergy
SIGNY
Hi Sig. My brother is an asthma sufferer so I know how bad my allergies have a possibility of getting. Hence why I am so diligent in treating them when they get bad.
At one point they were so bad that I thought I was going to have to have my sinuses drained but I didn't. Lucky me. BRENDA
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Still doing roller-coaster weather. Three days ago it was warmer in Bufflao (83) than here (69). Today it was 94. By Thursday it's anticipated to drop almost 30 degrees.
But with last week's thunderstorm and downpour, the flowers are still blossoming extravagantly. I love to see the activity in my front and back yards: The first flush of cosmos flowers have set seed, and the goldfinches and house finches are flocking to the seed heads to eat. Sparrows and mourning doves are feasting on the CA poppy seeds, the mockingbirds are eating the pineapple guava petals (edible and sweet), the butterflies and bees are nectaring on the nasturtiums, verbenas, and poppies ... the scrub jays are still coming in for the peanuts. Today I heard and saw a hawk up on the wire, and a woodpecker in our avocado.
We're finally reaching a modus vivendi with our new dog. I mentioned that we didn't understand how she was trained and ... as eager to please as she is ... she just didn't know what was expected. The biggest problem was that she was only partly house-trained; I think she must have been an apartment dog and actually been trained to use potty-pads, which would have been terribly confusing for her. But - success! She now reliably does what she needs to do when I take her for a walk, and now that we know she won't pee in the house we can let her out of her carrier at night. We're ALL much happier!
She's a fun, attentive, playful, active little dog. Over time we've accumulated various toys so she can exercise her rat-terrier drives .... thrown/ rolled tennis balls to "chase" and "hunt", a knotted rag to "wrestle" and "kill", chew strips to gnaw on, and of course dirt to dig in. It's a pleasure seeing this little dog being happy just being a dog and doing dog-things.
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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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I saw my first "yellow" bird the other day when I was on the phone with my Grandma. She said that it was a canary. Damn near 40 years old and never seen one in the wild before.
My grass in my back yard filled in about 80% with that one bag of grass seed. Thought it was done a few weeks ago but it just keeps sprouting. Maybe I'll get even more. Finger's crossed.
Still haven't looked into that cracked sump drain though. Man I'm worried about what I'm going to find when I uncover that.
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