I am wishing you all a Happy New Year this morning since I was out like a light at 9:30 pm. in a Benadryl fog! I finally got into bed at 10:22 p.m. and if there was any fun and frivolity to be had -- I was not a part of it. Why you ask? Well, between December and February I become like the walking dead -- unable to hear, breathe, smell and barely talk -- yes, welcome relief for some, I know. It is the season of Mountain Cedar here in Texas. I was plagued with it my whole life in San Antonio and thought when I moved north I would be free of it -- upwind so to speak. Yeah, not so much. Thanks to the builders of the big, ugly condo behind me, it is worse this year because apparently they were able to buy hundreds of cedar trees at a great price and planted them all behind my house. Yay!
Here is the map from pollen.com and you will see what I mean.
Doesn't it look like fun? It will be this way through February and maybe by my birthday I will start to feel like a human again. I wonder if I can sue the condo people for planting all these trees after we talked to them about it. Stellar folk they are.
So, enough about that -- on with the rest of my new year.
I am still reading the two books I started a few days ago -- "Aunt Dimity's Christmas" which I am almost finished with and "A Plain and Fancy Christmas" which I have just started. I had planned to read both of them in December for Christmas but here I am, still reading and really quite over Christmas.
I am going to try a new recipe I found in "Fine Cooking". It is for chicken with lemons and oranges and roasted in a broth of juice and garlic. I think it sounds wonderful -- we will see what Hubs says. I will have it with rice and some green veggie, maybe some carrots and a salad. There isn't much to it and the only thing I am going to change about it is the cut of chicken. I am going to use only white meat instead of chicken quarters as Hubs doesn't like dark meat. If it is good, I will let you know. If not, well, you will be spared the details.
So, on that note, I am off to undress a Christmas tree and get things back in order here so I can get rid of all the cedar dust that has undoubtedly blown into my house from the property behind me. Chances are I will be in another Benadryl fog is a while and Mucinex is my new BFF.
Have a wonderful day, all! Happy New Year!
2 comments:
well that sucks then being under the weather until February. Our Christmas tree has gone back to bed for another year as well!!
Gill in Canada
You are right -- it sucks. Cedar fever, as it is called here, makes you feel all flu-y, for months. I can always tell when it starts to bloom and when it stops -- it is like night and day to me.
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