
Yesterday, my husband and I went into our backyard to pick up a bunch of lemons that our tree dropped. It’s been raining quite a bit, and this particular lemon tree is unnaturally abundant.
Ideally, we should have been picking up the lemons more often. But, its been raining a lot, and we didn’t, so several of them got moldy. Even so, there were a surprising amount of good lemons out there. We kept some for ourselves, gave some to the neighbors, and put the rest on a “free table”.
I’m allergic to mold. I remember telling my acupuncturist that I wanted to rip all the green out of the yard before the spring pollen season started. She warned me not to do that, or, if I must, to do it with a mask on (like, a painter’s mask, or the masks the doctor’s office gives you if you come in with a sinus infection.)
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