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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 I smell Spring....Achoo!

Spring is in the air. My tulips have buds. My lawn needs mowed, except that they came and did the spring weed & feed today, so my lawn got off lucky, while I traipsed off to the barn to spend some time with Fortune. And, I wake up with a stuffy nose. I spend the day with a stuffy nose, and I go to sleep with a stuffy nose. Alas, it's spring, and the start of the three seasons of the year in which Mother Nature decides she hates me and makes me sneeze.

I don't mind. Because of ear infections and colds as a child, I remember the big, brown bottles of actifed the doctors poured down me. Because of that, anything pseudephedrine based -- my body laughs! And all the nifty replacements now because of it being illegal to sell pseudephedrine OTC anymore (in Iowa you have to go to the pharmacy to get things like Tylenol Sinus, which works occasionally), aren't really that good. My favorite drug of choice right now is Excedrin Sinus, mostly because the Excedrin makes me forget all about my sinus headaches. LOL!!!

Still, I love the sight of flowers. My hostas have finally emerged from the ground, and I'm hoping to till up an herb bed and a flower bed this weekend for spring planting. Longer days mean I can spend more time at the barn with my horse, or simply sitting on my deck, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine. (and talking to my kitties who sit in the window and look so forlorn)

Spring means we've braved another winter. Made it through without succumbing to the ice and snow and bitter cold. Hooray for Spring!

Posted by Mary Winter :: 5:55 PM :: 1 comments

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