Pass the whine
Monday, April 20th, 2009 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniIt was bookkeeping this evening. I'm still working on the sadly neglected closing out of SRM's fiscal year. Almost done, and then there's the filing.
Discovered today that most of what I wrote yesterday is Unnecessary to the Plot and needs to be yanked out and re-cast. I guess I should've thought longer.
A skunk dug up my newly planted irises. This is depressing me more than it reasonably ought, but dammit, I was looking forward to those iris. stupid skunk.
The trees of Maine are indulging in their annual ritual attempt to kill me with sex.
To make matters even more lively, my Borgia Tooth is acting up something terrible; my jawbone aches, my ear aches, my tooth aches. There must be a pair of pliers in this house somewhere.
Going to go find a cat and set up a snuggle station on the couch.
Discovered today that most of what I wrote yesterday is Unnecessary to the Plot and needs to be yanked out and re-cast. I guess I should've thought longer.
A skunk dug up my newly planted irises. This is depressing me more than it reasonably ought, but dammit, I was looking forward to those iris. stupid skunk.
The trees of Maine are indulging in their annual ritual attempt to kill me with sex.
To make matters even more lively, my Borgia Tooth is acting up something terrible; my jawbone aches, my ear aches, my tooth aches. There must be a pair of pliers in this house somewhere.
Going to go find a cat and set up a snuggle station on the couch.
Irises and Sinuses
Date: 2009-04-21 12:57 am (UTC)Did you try the hot pepper trick for the irises? That is, you cover 'em with powdered hot pepper as you plant (the cheap stuff from Marden's or CVS or Wal-Mart will work fine, just use a LOT of it) -- the critters don't like the taste and it discourages them unless they are really, really hungry. Also, it can help to put a thin layer of fine gravel as the very top layer of the planting. The shoots will come up through it no problem, but the critters don't like to dig through it. Nothing's a sure-fire cure -- I still lose some bulbs to squirrels -- but these two tricks help.
The tooth might be related to the tree sex -- excess junk in the sinuses can either cause or mimic a sinus infection which often causes referred pain to teeth. For me, a toothache is one of my spring "start taking allergy meds" signs. Can you try any allergy meds? Failing that....there's always the hot spicy Chinese mustard trick to help open the sinuses up.
Re: Irises and Sinuses
Date: 2009-04-21 12:34 pm (UTC)I took a Claritin last night and the toothache has indeed eased off, so I think we have causality here.