What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[kronin323]

they delivered the check to the wrong apartment!!!

Maybe that's where your package went, too...

 

[digi7alph0enix]

So the post office lost my package 2 months ago. Went out for delivery and then nada. Wellll finally I win my appeal and claim butttt today they delivered the check to the wrong apartment!!! wtf you cant make this **** up.

Posts like this always seem to happen when I have high dollar items that have been shipped with USPS. I've got a $600 phone coming to me that way and a pair of Oakleys as well. Meanwhile the wife's phone just got shipped out via FedEx.

 

[QLR1]

Well Damn @Dallas O Hog. You cannot win with the Postal Service

 

[kronin323]

Down here in Austin we have a wide variety of trees, but the two most common are live oak and juniper; we commonly call the juniper "cedar" but it's actually juniper; true cedar is a different tree.

The juniper is the most prevalent; undeveloped areas typically have scattered live oak clusters with the spaces between choked with juniper. When an area gets developed, though, the juniper is usually cleared out while as much of the live oak as practical is kept, it being attractive, large, and long lived; a desirable ornamental.

After the first freeze in winter, the juniper releases its pollen. A lot of people are allergic to this pollen and they are absolutely miserable for a couple of months; we call it "cedar fever". Luckily it has never bothered me. But since most of the juniper is in undeveloped areas, we don't really see any visible evidence of the pollen, just peoples' allergies.

The live oak is a different story, though. It releases its pollen this time of the year. It doesn't seem to bother as many with allergies (again I have no problems) but dang it makes a mess, especially because so much of it is kept in developed areas.

The pollen gets so thick that everything gets a yellow dusting - cars, streets / sidewalks, lawn furniture, etc. Even worse, the trees drop these little strands covered in pollen balls, and those strands pile up EVERYWHERE. It's really messy, and it gets tracked inside.

Light rain won't wash the pollen away; it makes it streak. And if the piles of pollen strands get wet, they'll stain your cement, can't power wash it out, and it takes a long time to fade away.

Here's a shot of part of my back porch from earlier today. Ugh.

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Down here in Austin we have a wide variety of trees, but the two most common are live oak and juniper; we commonly call the juniper "cedar" but it's actually juniper; true cedar is a different tree.

The juniper is the most prevalent; undeveloped areas typically have scattered live oak clusters with the spaces between choked with juniper. When an area gets developed, though, the juniper is usually cleared out while as much of the live oak as practical is kept, it being attractive, large, and long lived; a desirable ornamental.

After the first freeze in winter, the juniper releases its pollen. A lot of people are allergic to this pollen and they are absolutely miserable for a couple of months; we call it "cedar fever". Luckily it has never bothered me. But since most of the juniper is in undeveloped areas, we don't really see any visible evidence of the pollen, just peoples' allergies.

The live oak is a different story, though. It releases its pollen this time of the year. It doesn't seem to bother as many with allergies (again I have no problems) but dang it makes a mess, especially because so much of it is kept in developed areas.

The pollen gets so thick that everything gets a yellow dusting - cars, streets / sidewalks, lawn furniture, etc. Even worse, the trees drop these little strands covered in pollen balls, and those strands pile up EVERYWHERE. It's really messy, and it gets tracked inside.

Light rain won't wash the pollen away; it makes it streak. And if the piles of pollen strands get wet, they'll stain your cement, can't power wash it out, and it takes a long time to fade away.

Here's a shot of part of my back porch from earlier today. Ugh.

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Aaaaawwwwwwww. How sweet. You have my initial in the backyard in the pollen stuff on the ground.

 

[QLR1]

I HATE springtime. The pollen has me in a haze. Allergies are horrible. I am always doped up so I can sleep at night and be quiet during the day. I will be glad when the winter comes back here.

 

[kronin323]

Aaaaawwwwwwww. How sweet. You have my initial in the backyard in the pollen stuff on the ground.

Dang you've got a good imagination...

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Dang you've got a good imagination...

It's not an imagination if it's TRUE!

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

I HATE springtime. The pollen has me in a haze. Allergies are horrible. I am always doped up so I can sleep at night and be quiet during the day. I will be glad when the winter comes back here.

You should come up here. It's still winter.

 

[QLR1]

You should come up here. It's still winter.

But, it is snowing up there. No way. Lol