Tag: Flowers
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The Sock Drawer
Welcome back everyone! It’s the middle of March and we have some good news and some bad news. Bad news first: after a gentle, cool spring, it is officially shorts weather. My personal rule is no shorts until March and last year I was hard pressed to make it this long. An extra two weeks…
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Death Pollen
While the rest of the country gets snowed on, Phoenix is being blanketed in drifts of big yellow pollen from the mesquite trees. Sure, it looks pretty, but everyone is terribly allergic to it. I am terribly allergic to it: today my head feels like it’s going to explode, my throat is scratchy, and my…
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Last of the Flowers
Most everything is done blooming. Just the palo verde trees and the occasional cactus, like this little guy behind my building. My job is almost done with, too. I am trying to look at this positively, as a gift of knitting time and time with Melba, instead of The End. We’ll see how well that…
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Spores!
With all the wind, the pollen has been blowing off the puffball trees (aka mesquites) and collecting against curbs and around bushes in dirty gold mounds. Technically, it’s pollen, not spores, but the allergies brought on by this particular pollen puts me in mind of the scene in the Secret Garden where Colin works himself…
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Loverly Spring
(Do you the song by that title? It’s delightfully mad.) Spring is officially here, our lovely cold snap is gone, and scared straight by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s tales of moths, I am handwashing my mittens.
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Hot Tea, Documentation, and Ben Gibbard, Not Necessarily in That Order
I am in the process of troubleshooting video embedding while nursing a vicious allergy attack and listening to the cheerfully devastated Postal Service.
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What else…
Little news on the knitting front here; after finally untangling the Gorgonian Knot and skipping through Chart 3 of the Icarus’ border, my skein decided to disintegrate & form another tangle. I hate the idea of breaking the yarn again to get this one out, so I’m trying to limp it along. It’s slow going,…
Anti-Quotidian 