Okay, okay, so plague is a bit dramatic. I guess it's just a sinus infection, brought on by allergies due to the devil winds we've been experiencing. The rather fuzzy shot is of my driveway, made dangerous by a dousing of liquidambar burrs. Brought down by those same devil winds.Tell me again why I keep those trees?
Oh, and the other photo?? That's the huge collection of the things that are still hanging on the trees.
Okay, here's the tree story. Way way back when, my children were
just little tykes who went to school. On Arbor Day, it was customary for someone to give the fourth graders a little tiny tree in a milk carton. So of course the little tiny tree comes home, and gets popped into the ground. After all, these are children who from their earliest years were helping me in the yard. Pulling weeds, and picking flowers--sometimes, pulling flowers and picking weeds, but you get the drift. So these little trees got lots of TLC. First came #2 son's (they didn't always get the same kind of trees--#1 son got a little pine tree that turned up its toes at the SoCal climate) and then came D1's--planted side by side, for some unknown reason. And they grew and they grew and they grew, as did D3's little liquidambar seedling. Now? There are 3 trees that are taller than the house, shedding little burrs all over the place. And the kidlets who used to happily gather the burrs and paint them gold and stick them onto things, or tie ribbons on them and put them on the Christmas tree, have gone on to bigger and better things.I hope the gardener has a big broom to sweep all these things up with. He will be here tomorrow so the driveway may be passable for a little while, if the winds die down.
Driving over these things feels like four flat tires. Or driving in downtown LA.
In other news, a court date has been set for the Grandcarrot's Official Court Hearing. Yay!
Okay, time to go take more of those good drugs (generic antibiotic, and I hope it works) and get some more rest. I hope that someday God will explain to me just why he invented sinuses in the first place. Not that I'm questioning His design skills, you understand.
Reminds me of the little couplet from Ogden Nash:
"God in His wisdom made the fly,
And then forgot to tell us why."
Happy Third Day of Christmas to all!
7 comments:
Are you certain there is a drive way under that swamp looking mess?
sorry you're feeling poorly. Infected sinuses are ghastly.
btw
What's the thing with the court date?
Feel better!
My favorite description of the devil winds is by Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe (from his short story Red Wind):
"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."
The winds have been terrible here! The hanging pots in our arbor are often blown to a 45-degree angle. I sympathize with the sinus trouble; the dry air has given me a badly scratchy throat. Hope you feel better soon.
Liquidambar trees have such beautifully colored foliage, but the spiky balls helped us decide against planting one here.
Those winds are really bad for the allergies. Lots of people suffering.
Hope you feel lots better.
May you and your Family have a very Happy New Year!!
xxoo
Joan
I would like permission to share your Stash Management Plan with my quilting guild. Several of us are planning a declutter campaign and your 12-steps would work nicely for a group that meets monthly. We would publish each month's step in the guild newsletter, which goes out to about 200 people, then do decluttering/finishing cheerleading at the actual meeting.
(I tried to find an email address to contact you privately but failed to locate it, so I'm putting this request in the comments.)
Permission is granted to use my 12 steps for anything! (No email address, Daisy!) Just share the results!! PS, mine is mehitabel AT earthlink DOT net!
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