Showing posts with label pollen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollen. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Smoke, pollen, lawn tractor

 🔥The smoke is awful all over. Tuesday morning, I walked outside and the smell was terrible. So many people are helping with the fires, though. One thing I never thought of, but some provinces are helping by replacing equipment. Thing is, if a fire crew is facing a sudden wind shift, they run, and have to leave equipment behind for their safety. 


Centennial Lake was been evacuated. It is horrific. It is about 80km northwest of us. Greater Madawaska is on alert. 

The photos and videos are shocking.
 

Monday night, I noticed the sun shining on the floor. It is orange from the smoke from the wildfires. The second photo was through the bathroom window and screen, but I wasn't going to go outside in the smoke and bugs!


Tuesday

Pollen

I've mentioned the white pine trees. They are in bloom, and the yellow pollen is EVERYWHERE! This had fallen off the tree, but you can see the pollen that fell off when I plunked it on the table.


🚜 Lawn Tractor

Hoping for rain to come, I thought I'd do the lawn. Thing is, they'd moved the seat when they did a tune up. I toodled around on it for a bit, but kept sliding on the seat. I gave up and went indoors. We can't find the manual, but I knew I could find something online. I took a photo with the cell phone, and by the time I went indoors to check it out, it was uploaded.  

 A YouTube video told me that I'd done the right thing, removing a large nut and washer, but I did not notice the lever on the right hand of the seat. 



Ta da! I motored on around wearing a mask. They are wonderful. Between the smoke, the dust, and debris, the mask really helped. 

You can see how dry the lawn is, in the panoramic photo taken with the phone. We had 1 mm rain Tuesday, June 6th. It didn't help.



🎞We've been watching a show, One Lane Bridge. On Season 2, it is essentially a murder-mystery, but the scenery is amazing. The lead is Dominic Ona-Ariki, in this New Zealand production. It was filmed, primarily, in Queenstown. One Lane Bridge spans the Dart River.


"The show follows events around the latest in a mysterious chain of deaths which have occurred on a one-lane bridge near the town of Queenstown.[1] The series is also notable for its inclusion of aspects of Māori spirituality as a core part of the plot, such as the notion of matakite, roughly equivalent to divination." WIKI

Cinnamon really enjoyed the show. It was a chilly night, with a cool front moving in from the north, which brings the smoke. He got cozy on my lap blanket. It would have been a good night to open up windows, but we are keeping the smoke out.


Sunday, 5 June 2022

Haircuts and pollen!

 Friday we had a mission. We met Caitlin at the Hostage Exchange site at 8:30, where we used to pick up or drop off the girls during COVID and the 35 weeks of Gramma Camp. They'd left some stuff at our place from sheltering with us from the power outage. It was nostalgic! 

✄ Caitlin took Isabelle for a haircut Friday afternoon! What a difference! She has an undercut, and had a ton taken off. She is growing up, our lovely young lady

Josephine had her hair shortened last month. It is a trend! Although, Isabelle loves and respects her older sister, and often emulates her. They have a close bond, after COVID.

📺 Doing my workout in the basement, I had trouble finding something to watch on TV. Three Ontario news shows were going to feature our newly elected premier's speech, and it seemed to me he was smirking. I couldn't watch it. US news was featuring issues around guns, which is heartbreaking. 

Ukraine citizens are in dire straights. FORTE11 is based near them. The 🛫Air Traffic is busy. They came out of Turkey Sunday morning.

I turned to Vancouver morning news, and they were dealing with a couple of stabbings, and a car fire. Crikey! I wasn't feeling 100% so I called it a day after 15 minutes. I went outside to play.

I puttered outside, and tried to get some yard work done, but the bugs drove me indoors.The weeding will get done another day. Or not! I shall have to use proper bug spray, and shower afterwards. 

🎾 Roland Garros Tennis – The French Open

Then, we were watching tennis from Paris and poor Alexander Zverev (GermanyGermany) rolled his ankle during the match against Nadal (SpainSpain). That looked painful. I know. I did it on the ice outside my portable in the early 90s.  

JB turned on the men's tennis semifinal, and the Ruud (NorwaySweden) and Čilić (CroatiaCroatia) match was stopped during the third set. A young woman wrapped a cable around the net, and the necklace she was wearing, tying up the game. She was protesting climate change, "We have 1028 days left." They hustled the players off the court while they dealt with it. The broadcaster didn't show any more of the incident, which is their policy.

In more tennis news, the French Open's 1st female director says women's tennis holds less 'appeal' than men's, which is why she schedules the men during peak night time hours. In 2016 in LA, a male tennis director stepped down when he revealed his gender biasDjokovic echoed the sentiment at the time, but didn't face any blowback. Sadly, the Paris transportation system was shut down when one men's game ended at 1 a.m., as the men play 5 sets, the women 3. People, it is 2022. 

Our travels to Franktown and back 

The crops are growing. Unlike Ukraine. 


 🏤Lanark Lifestyles <= see all my drive-by photos.  
Lanark Lifestyles is coming along.



Unlike my header, the rhododendron aren't blooming as much as when I first bought it. The spongy moth caterpillars ate it up last year. We shall see how it comes along. I'm not sure what to do about it. Mulch, maybe? I wrapped it in burlap over winter, as the deer like it.
This is the plant that the Spongy Moth caterpillars tore into last year. Thankfully, the caterpillars have died off and moved on. 





The allium


The pine trees are generating a lot of pollen.




pine tree pollen from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.