I'm doing very well; thank you to all who left comments or thought of me. The common consensus around here is that the allergy is to dust and the cleaning out of the closet was the culprit. Really, some of those dresses hadn't been touched in four (4) years. The fact that I was in the grocery store both times is just coincidence.
Yesterday was dark and it poured most of the day. I brightened the day by re-reading That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo and by sleeping. It was a good day to do both. We'll discuss Russo's book tomorrow night at the other book club to which I belong. I'm sure we'll have lots to talk about; the mother in this book is a real pip. I'm sure some of the other women in the group are really going to react to her as she totally re-defines the term "toxic". Her son, a strong and relatively successful man, is still pretty emotionally crippled by his mother -- about whom the nicest comment I can make is, "Geez, is this woman a bitch!"
On a good note: spring is making its way across Maryland. (Although, one wouldn't have known that at 3:00 AM when I got up and looked out the window to total white-out conditions. It was snowing and snowing hard!) Perennials are beginning to show themselves as are some bulbs. The trees are all budding and the birds are singing loudly. It's almost like a Disney movie out there! And Saturday night, I heard the barred owl for the first time since fall. Time for me to start planning all those pots...
