I feel worn out

[kentauros]

and I don't like it.


Damn allergies!

[texanwitch]

1. I didn't have any allergies in Austin,

I do in Houston, but not at Galveston.

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[kentauros]

2. Thanks

:hug:

They've come on in the last couple of days. I guess whatever came in on that front, since I watched the clouds moving inland one day and going in the opposite direction the other, then the allergies hit.

My sister lives in Austin and has trouble with the cedar-allergens. Galveston may be better, too, because salt air is good for the lungs :D

[texanwitch]

3. I never have problems at the beach with allergies, I think it is the salt.

I know people with cedar allergies.

Do you have a air cleaner for the house, I bought an expensive one this summer.

This past summer was hell for me with allergies.

[kentauros]

4. I live in an apartment

and do not have the authority to rip out the 20+ year-old carpet and replace with something good, like bamboo flooring. Once I'm working, I may get it steam-cleaned and get the a/c duct-work cleaned. I just need to really straighten up around here. I'm a bit of a slob when it comes to piles of paper, old mail (that needs to be meticulously recycled and removed of ID-theft capability) and so on. Not dirty, just very disorganized and dusty ;)

[texanwitch]

5. Carpet will do it., I hate carpet.

I have a window unit for AC.


Paper can pile up, my room looks bad right now.


I need to clean up for the holidays.

[kentauros]

6. I gotta organize my plastic and glass containers in my kitchen,

then I'll be able to mess it up all over again cooking and baking gifts :D

[texanwitch]

7. I missed out on getting the neat gene.

I will clean up but it won't stay that way.

Still the room is too messy even for me.

[kentauros]

8. Even when it's "too messy" I'll live with it.

I still have to go through the album collection because my past-wife mixed hers in with mine and now wants them all back. It's going to be a big pain in the ass, and I probably won't do it until I have some more room in here to mess with it. And I currently don't have the room, so she can wait :P

[texanwitch]

9. Just do a little at a time.

I am a expert at putting off jobs.

I could teach a class on it.

Really I need to clean up, I will have a few guests sharing the room for Thanksgiving.

I need room for the air beds, also the tree.

[kentauros]

13. Oh, I do that, too.

It's just that there's then this huge amount of time between doing a little bit that tends to thwart my initial efforts

[david13]

10. Oh, cedar. I love cedar, the tree, the wood, the fireplace log, ah.

My cat (r.i.p.) used to go crazy licking it. We had a secretary once, and she got a few of my cedar blocks, she kept them on her desk and would spend hours sniffing them, just like cocaine.
dc

[texanwitch]

11. We lost one tree during Hurricane Ike, it was our really old cedar tree.

It was really old, over 100 years old.

We kept the big logs from the tree.

The birds really loved it in winter.

I do love the smell of cedar.

[kentauros]

16. make some blocks out of it

and keep them in your chest of drawers and your closets. Keeps things smelling good and keeps the bugs away :)

You could probably take the logs to some of the woodworkers around town, get them turned into planks and have a nice chest or cabinet made from them, too....

[kentauros]

12. Cedar wood is great!

Such a wonderful color :D

Cedar tree blooms, not so much...
Central Texas is also close to being overrun by cedar trees. They also choke out the native hardwoods, like the live oaks :(

[texanwitch]

14. I noticed a lot of cedar trees on my way to Austin.

People used to keep the cedar trees cut on their land, I guess that isn't happening now.

People used to use cedar as Christmas trees, I still do.

I have mine picked out.

My father told me that the CCC boys in the 1930's used the cut cedar trees down and use them for fence posts and other things.

Cedar is good wood.

[kentauros]

15. I like the look of old cedar trees,

where they start to spread out some. Makes things look more Mediterranean :)

[texanwitch]

17. Ours was so pretty.

The birds liked to live in it.

I need to do something with the wood.

The old China Berry trees didn't get hurt at all.

[texanwitch]

18. I found this.

http://www.peopleagainstcedars.com/html/cedar__the_plague_of_trees.html

[texanwitch]

19. Another view.

http://www.keepbanderabeautiful.org/bearspringsblossom/juniperus.html

Cedar trees make great fence posts, they last for years.

[kentauros]

20. Yeah, that's the variety I like

:D

We used to also go hiking in some of the dry creek beds, looking for cedar branches. They make great stakes for tomatoes and other garden plants :)

[texanwitch]

21. Farmers and ranchers used cedar trees, kept them under control.

The wood lasts forever.

My Aunt uses the cedar on her farm for fence posts still.

Some of the fence posts on her farm were put there by her Grandfather, no rot.

To many people now own the land but don't use it.