Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 26, 2016

For some people, that is bad.

How about a Humidty/Dewpoint alert? That’s what kills me….

The pollen knocks my wife out pretty hard.All our vehicles turn yellow.

That’s pretty scary, but it’s nothing to sneeze at.Oh, wait – it is, isn’t it.

My wife was also wiped out by pollen, or more accurately by the pills she took to combat it.

I used to have a bad reaction to grass pollen in May and June….I spent my summers in a benadryl fog, swinging in a hammock under willow trees, reading Marvel comics, listening to WTAC radio songs…..

When I was young, my allergies were so bad that I wished to be dead instead. Then someone told me about “allergy injections” and I got them for 33 years. Now those allergies aren’t so bad anymore, but I still have to take antihistamines. The type I take does not make me sleepy, but I have to take one every day of my life. My eyes do not itch anymore and although I still sneeze some, it is not so much and best of all, I can sleep without having my sinuses close up. I don’t get those horrible sinus headaches either. Can’t take decongestants because of the terrible side effects for me.

The yellow stuff on everything does not affect you allergies according to the allergist that fives my wife and I 3 shots each a week. It’s too big. - BTW whoever thought up making the real OTC medicines hard to get and having a weaker version OTC should have allergies for their entire family. We have to have prescriptions so we can get enough for our entire family. Gggrrr.

around here it’s high wind alert and the associated fire danger alert, both of which have covered much of NM for most of the week.

I hope I haven’t waited too late for my post to do any good.

Drop the antihistamines. Go to this link:https://www.nasacort.com/savings.aspx

Print yourself a coupon, and go pick up a bottle. (Walmart is your best bet.)

This stuff really works, and with virtually no side effects. The trick is to get the first few doses to stay put, what with your nose constantly flushing itself out.

Oh, and Flonase is now OTC, too. But it costs more.

I think Hubs has that coat in the closet!

Charliegirl….You’re right, I’m not complaining…I t lasted a few summers…Then, out of the golden leafy fog came a voice that said, “I got you a job at Kroger’s….”…

“it will stunt food plants like corn, but irritants alike milk weed and poison sumac will become more potent.”.“Stunted” plants are often preferred.They put more energy into making food and less into making stalk or other inedible biomass.Some farmers around me have been planting shorter varieties of corn lately for that very reason. Less stalk, more corn..Japanese scientists did it for rice back in the sixties, less straw, more rice..Haven’t noticed any sumac, but I have an old catawba tree in my front yard, wrapped up with poison ivy. I should cut it out, but don’t fish or need catawba worms and as a poison ivy tree, it is very pretty..I also have some pines at the edge of the field which look like muscadine trees from the vines and all the fruit. Also very pretty. .We need more milkweed to help the monarch butterflies survive. Also pretty, weed and bug.