Dave's Cave

I have a real love hat relationship with spring. All the buds coming out, and the green appearing on the trees is beautiful. The part I hate is the allergies!

Here in the Pacific Northwest the vile, evil Scotch Broom is now blooming, and I'm having trouble breathing. But I don't have it all that bad compared to Laurie, it is just about impossible for her to breath, and she has tried just about every treatment there is.

The funny thing is that there are actually people that claim that it is not Scotch Broom that cause the allergies, because some allergy specialist back in the 50s declared that the pollen was too large to cause the problems. They claim that it's the grass or ash or alder or some other thing. Here's the problem with that theory, Scotch broom grows in a wider variety of locations than any of those other things. There isn't much grass in a redwood forest, but I get the same response when the Scotch Broom is blooming there, as when it is blooming in the meadow down the road.

When Laurie was at school yesterday, she found out that 24 Hour Fitness was opening a Sport Club at our exit off of I-5!

Mind you, I'm not exactly in love with the company, they have a lot of policies that drive me nuts, but I like gyms that are open 24/7. The one we belong to now is in downtown Lacey in an office building. It does the minimum job that we require of it, but it has no pool, no spa, the aerobics room is about 15 feet square and they bought all their weight machines from one vendor.