My Nemesis Returns

[xraytheenforcer]

Yes, my eternal nemesis, the Horse chestnut tree (aka Kastanienbaum or Aesculus hippocastanum) is in bloom, and my sinuses are letting me know this fact rather forcefully. Ugh. Here's to a week of drugging myself to the gills, then all will be well again. Stupid trees.

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[sorceressn.livejournal.com]

And you're getting close enough to take photos of it?!

Anyway, I sympathize. Allergies suck.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

that's the magic of wikipedia. :) I steer as clear as I can from those poisonous bastards. ;-)

[gcbella.livejournal.com]

Did you make sure the new apartment does not have any of these nearby?
My enemy is oak trees, and yes there are 3 right in my front yard. Along with mold, and yes it has been raining alot in the past few weeks. If there was a god he hates me.

[kama-police.livejournal.com]

weren't chestnuts supposed to have some sort of a disease that will make them extinct in the next decade or so?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

THERE IS A GOD!!!!

[skylarkthered.livejournal.com]

That's the American Chestnut (http://www.acf.org/). They were once widespread here. They were a staple in native diet and their wood was used for a variety of things (as well as just being beautiful). Quite sad really. :( Other species of chestnut are blight resistant.

[blanchemains.livejournal.com]

My personal nemesis is the Cottonwood. Which, you may recall, grows about every five feet in the Sacramento Valley.

That alone is enough to ensure that I will never, ever reside in Sacramento ever again. Ever. It's hostile territory.

[tenalpia.livejournal.com]

I've never worked out who my nemesis is - he's a sneaky bastard who comes along in early spring then pops up again right at the end of summer.

Look on the bright side - At least you know that it's only a week - think of all the poor sods who suffer continuously ;)

[sermelt.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling you , petal . I think it's the rape seed that doing my nose in , here * snuffle *

[d-arte.livejournal.com]

Allergies suck.

[meh-of-munich.livejournal.com]

Biergartens are always built under chestnut trees, so if I ever develop that particular allergy I will be very much fucked. So much for trying to convince you to move to Munich :-b