Although it's -42F right now, the sun is shining.
This week, spring pounced on New Jersey. And did a fairly good job of it. All the grass turned green. On Monday, I saw little nubbins on the ends of the forsythia branches. This morning, they've bloomed into bright butter-gold-yellow.
I don't know the names of these trees, but I call them star trees. They're usually not very tall, may 12' max, and they bloom in little white star flowers. They started blooming this week.
Daffodils all over. If I owned a field, I would plant daffodils all over it, just so people could see it. Stop along the way and pick a handful to take to work.
There are green buds about 1/8" long on MD's clematis.
Nice.
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The Allergy Report
I'm not even taking this one to the doctor. The day after the massive allergy attack, I went back to doing the neti pot thing. And then I didn't put on any makeup instead of the usual foundation & lipstick routine. Result? No allergies.
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Phoebe Progresses
I've turned up the humidifier attached to the furnace. I put a big pot of water on the stove to boil. I unearthed the vaporizer from the basement and set it up in my bedroom. Phoebe has been sleeping next to it. I've only had the system in place for two days, but the incidence of bloody noses has decreased dramatically.
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No Tengo Dinero
I didn't get paid by my old contracting company this week, so far as I know. There may be a check in the mail the afternoon, but I didn't get one yesterday. The check usually arrives by mail on Fridays. This makes me sigh because I do not want to have to go through any rigamarole with Maeve about this. Rumor has it that she was on vacation last week.
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I spent the morning running around, despite the fact that I have no money. I went to Petco, where I bought Phoebe a bubbler. Also, she refuses to eat any dry food except Hill's Science Diet.
A trip to BJs was in order. I'm going to try to forsake the Big Finance cafeteria this week. Also, coffee isn't free at BFCo and it's harder to find. Despite what I thought were little cafes on every floor, it turns out that this is the Coffee Club and usually the coffee is burned and the parts and pieces are cruddy. Ugh.
Then I stopped in at Angel Food Ministries and waiting for the convoy to arrive from the distribution point in Philadelphia. When it arrived, I helped schlep in the boxes, got my stuff, came home and unloaded everything. Whew.
I think the people at Scoop Away got the message that the big plastic bins were hard to cope with, so now they're packing heavy duty plastic bags with 42 lbs of litter. These are much easier for me to deal with. The cats rejoice because it won't be such a pain for me to keep their boxes clean.
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In summary...
The house is cozy and becoming moist. Phoebe's feeling better. I just had real food for lunch instead of oatmeal. And now I'm going to go take a nap.
2 comments:
10 years ago Saint Louis planted daffodils along the sides of all the highways. They are still sthere, at least by the zoo. You would think theyd get overpopulated at some point.
The daffies pop up in unusual spots around here, too. All kinds of trees and bushes are blooming, most of which I can't identify.
Must get outside and take pictures.
Also -- YAY PHOEBE! LaGuz seems recovered from her infection. Only had to give the subcu fluids 3 times before she figured out that drinking water was a GOOD thing, and she started up on it again.
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