This is pic of where one monument was located at the rear of a 2.25ac severance with residence and improvements.
The second part was as survey of the remainder of the farm.
This was where the field of bermuda grass gave way to those yellow flowered weeds and the beginning of some of the healthiest goat weed I've ever encountered, it was as tall as the ATV.
It was 83?øF with a heat index in the 90s and the air was extremely steamy and pungent with the goatweed and yellow flower weed aroma that brought great tingly feeling of my allergies to a height where my throat began to swell and my head felt about to explode from sinus pressure.
I had expected this and had countered with a fresh dose of Cetirizine with HCL and a couple of Benedryl to boot washed down with a glass of lemonaid.
The owner was leasing approximately 80ac for grazing and access to water in a couple of stock ponds.
Basically there was 10 acres of grass on the hill and the remainder was split betwen goatweeds and several stands of trees for shade.
I have great admiration for those of you who keep doing fieldwork despite being allergic to so much of what we encounter routinely.
When asked at medical exams if I have any known allergies, my singular response is always "hard work". I appear to be among the lucky few who do not suffer from standard allergies.
Thankfully I don't have any allergies but if I did I would consider this: https://www.achooallergy.com/respro-allergy-masks/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=1o3&scid=scplp686&sc_intid=686&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3MPNBRDjARIsAOYU6x8_I0QLSP5AMvtXpshwSEeB6uGbMMatV93N3GRdJs2kk5uUU8w9ksIaAssHEALw_wcB
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we're on the cusp of the one bad part of the year for me: ragweed season.
remember staking CL of an FM road about 17-18 years ago around this time of year. allergies were already going nuts, and like a couple of numbskulls me and the i-man spend the first couple hours of the morning in the trees. about mid-morning, just as the sun is really starting to warm things up, we finished up that section and i'll never forget cutting and walking through that clearing and seeing what lay ahead for the rest of the day (and a couple to come): hundreds of acres of ragweed in full bloom. nary a cattle trail, footpath, or any other clearing in sight.
i don't recall if claritin was available then (at least OTC), but i do know that what probably should have taken us a day or so ended up on the north side of 3 days. i don't know how i still have sinuses (or eyeballs or eardrums) after that.
second worst day of it was just a couple years ago (about 40 acres of it). two claritin was the pre-emptive dose, but all it did was tamp down the sneezing. somewhere the swmbo has pictures of me passed out on the couch after a day of that- looks more like a photo of a roasted pig.
For me it's grass pollen. May-June are the months. Zyrtec is effective for "light days" without too many side effects. Claritin is stronger but dries out the passages and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Being raised in the middle of every kind of allergen known to mankind probably helped to allow my body to self-inoculate.
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I use a WolfBike washable and refillable filter mask that looks similar to that at 1/3 the price.
They will benefit anyone, allergy or not, to avoid breathing in clouds of dust and debris and the Piney Woods green haze of pine pollen that would choke anyone down.
The constant smoky haze that has enveloped my environs has my eyes burning like an 80's nightclub.
I'm have allegerys about 10 months out of the year. There is a couple of months in the dead of winter they go away. Mine will flare up, get bettr, then get worse again several times a day. I've been trying Zyrtec this year, which has helped some. Benedryl has always worked well for me but has the same affect a six pack of beer would have on me also.
Mark Mayer, post: 445512, member: 424 wrote: For me it's grass pollen. May-June are the months. Zyrtec is effective for "light days" without too many side effects. Claritin is stronger but dries out the passages and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Doesn't the Willamette Valley have the highest grass pollen levels in North America? I had some sinus issues when I was going to school in Eugene, but that was a reaction to Bolivian agricultural products.
James Fleming, post: 445573, member: 136 wrote: Doesn't the Willamette Valley have the highest grass pollen levels in North America?
I don't know about that, but it is very high. One of the major agricultural products of the valley is grass seed. Green grass.
I struggle with hay fever-like symptoms moreso now than I did a few years ago, likely due to my age and the fact that asthma runs in the family. Cetirizine is good stuff IMO when I don't need to sleep.
Looks like a SOKKIA SETx30 series TS in the pic... a good all-around gun in my opinion.
Daniel Ralph, post: 445534, member: 8817 wrote: The constant smoky haze that has enveloped my environs has my eyes burning like an 80's nightclub.
We've even had a constant smoky haze here in Colorado from the fires up in NW US and Canada. My eyes felt it for a couple of days. I can't imagine what it's like living up there right now.
Tom Adams, post: 445856, member: 7285 wrote: We've even had a constant smoky haze here in Colorado from the fires up in NW US and Canada. My eyes felt it for a couple of days. I can't imagine what it's like living up there right now.
It has been bad. REAL BAD. So bad, in fact, that for a large number of days this year the sun has been just an orange-red, thoroughly obscured, circle.
Its so bad that these guys probably didn't do the back nine. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/novice-photographer-talks-viral-golf-wildfire-photo-article-1.3480575
