Click the picture above to see a few more very pretty tulips that came up in our yard last week. Spring is here, but unfortunately, so are my allergies.

I thought I would escape this year, as last fall didn’t give me any trouble. But, last week, my eyes started itching, and I’ve been sneezing a lot.

I think winter and fall are my favorite times of the year simply because of allergies . . .

I spent most of yesterday out in the back yard, re-raking the leaves. Last fall, I was very busy with interview prep and working. I raked most of the leaves up around our house, but the backyard got left behind. I figured (incorrectly) that those leaves would just become nutrients for the grass the next spring. I’d have a beautiful lawn!

Wrong!

Instead, because of my error, a quarter of our backyard is dead, underneath the canopy of wet leaves that sat over it all winter. Whoops! We may spread seed or sod, but something will have to be done. Raking yesterday was not like fall raking. In the fall, the leaves just go where they are swept. Now, in the spring, they are hard, damp, and stick in the grass like paper-mache. Yuck. Lesson learned.

Enjoy the weather and sun!

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