“The pine trees will be candling and shedding pollen everywhere, coating everything in yellow dust-”
That’s the part that is my downfall. Really bad allergies this year.
Know what you mean about the allergies. Had to have a breathing treatment. However, it’s a small price to pay for having my planters. The pansies are going all out with blooms; peas, lettuce, spinach and arugula very prolific right now. They love the rain and fog we have had lately. Temps going back down into the 40s and 50s over the weekend and more rain to ease our drought. Looking forward to warmer days so I can plant tomatoes, cucumbers and beans.
Glad to know I'm not the only one with that problem. They've already been wicked for me.
Growing up in NYC and spending my summers on the west coast of Florida I didn't have any of the allergies I've acquired since moving to the DelMarVa peninsula in 1982.
I'll never forget the first time I took a sudafed (or some similar OTC allergy stuff) I was still working in radio. After my 3pm newscast the station manager came into the newsroom and pulled me off the air and did the 3:30 newscast himself because the news director couldn't get there until almost 4. I was so "stoned" from the antihistamine I was practically incoherent on the air --- and I didn't even know it. I was still able to write and type, but could not speak coherently. The news director drove me home after the 6pm news.
25 years later he and I are still friends and we still laugh about that day.
We’ve already had our bout, and not even 2 weeks of rain has rid us of all the pine pollen! Better than it was, tho!
There are Pine trees in Santa Cruz County?
Just kidding EG...