Allergies

I don’t know about the rest of you and where you live, but everything, and I mean everything outside is covered in pollen.  It looks like someone took a Jupiter sized jar of mustard powder and sprinkled it all about.  All surfaces are covered in a fine layer of yellow. While walking on the back patio, the yellow dust rises up around my feet, very much like Pig-pen  This would be ok if it weren’t moist in the mornings.  When moisture is added to a dry paste, what do you get?  You get enough mustard for every hot-dog in America. I’ve taken to rinsing the car off before I get in, because the extra force of the water doesn’t leave a paste it rinses off, for the most part.  As it dries, the rivulets of yellow run down the side of the car and are quite visible in the dark red background of the cars usual color.  It’s a beautiful sight.  I stupidly left the top down on the car the other day after a very pleasant drive home, and the inside was completely covered with pollen and it was shooting out the vents. That was fun to clean up and by fun I mean no it wasn’t fun at all.

Pollen culprit

Lot’s of stuff is in bloom right now and I think if a bee were to come into our yard and roll around on the ground it would pick up enough pollen to get the job done with out having to fly around.  It seems to work on the cats they roll around and pick up lots of pollen. I have to wipe them down before they can come in the house. The outdoor dining table are covered with the stuff and eventhough I use a table cloth, I still have to shake them off.  It’s epidemic, this pollen stuff.

I am one of the lucky people that doesn’t suffer from spring time allergies.  This year for some reason Sweet Husband is not suffering either. In past spring times we have headed out to work in the yard and his sneezing and sniffling would start a short time after that.   There would be a short delay in the game while he ingested some allergy medication.  It was always preferable to get the ‘non drowsy’  kind cuz there’s nothing like driftin off when you’re trying to garden.  One weird thing that happened to him last year was lip swelling.  He says that his lips would start to tingle and before you could say, ” Hey your lip is fat”.   His lips would look like two fat slugs sleeping across his face.  I couldn’t help but laugh, it was funny.  But then my laughing would cause him to laugh and I was afraid that his lip would burst from the pressure, so I’d try to stifle my mirth. We found out quickly that allergy medicines would deflate his lips so we never left home with out some sort of benydryl product. Which oddly is one thing that I’m allergic to, but that’s a different story.

One particular day we were at a neighborhood function and I looked up and got the signal that it was time to leave.  He really didn’t need to tell me this, it was written all over his face, if you know what I mean.  No I don’t have any pictures of him with the swollen lips, that would have been mean, if not very funny!  Another odd thing is he has only had to take one allergy pill this season and hasn’t had any weird afflictions, like random swelling.  Aren’t our bodies weird?