Survival Sunday is a personal note and a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared. This curated collection of information is only available to email and Patreon subscribers.
Have a great week
ahead!
Daisy
A PERSONAL NOTE
My gosh.
The.
Pollen.
The Pollening.
Spring in the South is really something else. It's absolutely beautiful - almost magical - to
watch the world come alive with flowers and buds and blossoms. There's a peach tree in the yard here, rhododendrons, and a fiery red crepe myrtle tree just outside my window that is home to a coordinating pair of cardinals. Petals from dogwood blossoms flutter gracefully to the ground whenever there's a strong breeze. An enormous patch of tulips is flourishing, and the buds are SO CLOSE to opening. I check them every day to see if they have yet and I can hardly wait to see what colors are there. Violets carpet the yard, and there are flowers and bushes I don't recognize that are none-the-less lovely.
But the POLLEN.
I had to shut my windows this week because the thick, yellow dust was making its way through the screens and coating everything. The top of my outdoor garbage can is no longer brown - it's yellow. Lifting the lid to drop in a bag of trash stirs up a mini-tornado of pollen that covers my shoes before I walk back inside. My daughter's dog, a pup of Canadian origin, sneezes violently and repeatedly after returning from doing her business in the pollen festival, looking bewildered by whatever has possessed her nostrils.
Some days, it's even a haze in the air. I guess it's the price you pay for basically living in a postcard-worthy spring garden, but my goodness, I've never seen anything quite like it.
There's beauty and birdsong surrounding me, which is a lovely, healing atmosphere. But I sure will be glad when The Pollening calms down and I can open my windows again without needing to dust twice daily.
I hope Spring is springing where you are and that you, too, are surrounded by flowers.
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