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Date Posted: 10:03:10 07/09/01 Mon
Author: SM78
Subject: Re: 'Strewth!
In reply to: Dionysos Thriambos 's message, "'Strewth!" on 09:36:49 07/09/01 Mon

I live 25 miles from the edge of the Mojave Desert and we get the desert pollens year round, not to mention the crap that blows around from the sagebrush and ragweeds in the canyon we live in. We have a natural river running behind my house (its walls are concrete-lined for flood control so it is what we call an urban river that is in its natural state of ten foot weeds and some super-strangling Chinese bamboo that invaded CA years ago (kuzu?). Once a year before the rains, the Army Corps of Engineers runs monster-sized bulldozers through the river and flattens everything. Even that jungle is nothing before a squadron of brutal bulldozers on steroids. Then dump trucks come and everything is hauled away leaving the river flat and empty.
The second spring hits everything thrusts back into glorious life with a gazillion pollens.

Today, SoCal has settled down and it is postcard beautiful on top of the land. What lies beneath in the fault system I do not know.

Yesterday I took my family to Ojai to "Meditation Mount," a beautiful meditation center. The pollens triggered asthma in both of my kids. We had inhalers and left the mountain. My wife's family (it is always the woman's fault!) is cursed with asthma; I merely have allergies. My kids got both! The leading pediatric asthma specialist at UCLA told us that nowhere is good for allergies and astham except for a beach shore home, and only then if a person is not affected by the many molds which grow in the marine climate.

As to Tejas: God bless y'all, but I have no plans of moving to the Lone Star State. Were I to head east, it would be to Arizona or New Mexico. Ideally, I will be moving northwest into either Ventura or Santa Barbara county in a few years.
It is beautiful beyond description as you hit the Central California coast and move towards Big Sur. My blood is in California. I will stay here (I always say that until we haev a big earthquake; and then I want to move) for some indefinite period of time (an aeon?)

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