I think I’ve mentioned before that I live in Florida? Where the state tree is (or should be) the pine tree. I’m not allergic, thankfully, but I’ve been thinking about how horrible it would be if I were. Let me illustrate with a few examples. During pine tree pollen season, my screened porch gets coated yellow. Not just the screen but the bench inside of it as well. By green truck turns yellow. Do you know how much pollen you have to put on green to turn it green? A lot. Finally, we are thinking about building a screened in pool and the pool builders have told us that during ‘pine season’ we’ll have to skim the top of the pool daily if we don’t want to swim in pollen even with the screening. One last example; a friend of mine left her windows open on a nice day. There were window screens and she figured everything would be fine. Oh no. The rooms with the windows open had to be completely cleaned because of the coating of pine pollen. All of these examples make me wonder, how does anyone with a pine pollen allergy live anywhere in Florida and maintain any kind of good health?(or any other state with lots of pine trees). Someone clue me in?
Photo Credit: Dbaron




4. September 2009
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