Spring is here, blast it.

[victorthecook]

So spring has hit the Boston area. So we're both tired and rather miserable. So we won't have a lot of spare energy until about Flag Day, when the spring pollens ease off.

Flag Day is in mid-June.


For those helpful souls who ask every year, with genuine concern: yes, we take medicines for it. Almost all of them. We follow research to see what else might help. We run HEPA filters. We actively track down good allergists and new therapeutic possibilities. And we avoid going outside as much as we can.

And the antihistamines do help, kind of like aspirin helps when you have a cold. You feel better after you take it. However, you still have a cold, and you're still not... well. Thus with allergies -- except that allergies also activate our asthma, which keeps us from sleeping well, too. And this cold will last until June or so -- another 12 weeks, getting worse until sometime in May, depending on the weather.

So we'll be a bit short of temper and energy for the next while. Please bear with us.

Comments

[greatblueheron.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry the onslaught has begun so soon. Same story down here; even the ticks are already awake and alert. Bless their hideous, blood-sucking little hearts.

Guh.

[victorthecook.livejournal.com]

Ah, ticks. The walking lentils of doom. They're not much of a problem here, but it's an urban area. I'm hoping they got mostly frozen out by the 70F weather that was followed by over a week near zero.