I got stuff (but it ain't perfume)

Posse!!

It’s been a minute since I have been posting here – but I haz EXCUSES!

my skin – it’s been a slog… but MY SKIN IS NEARLY BACK TO NORMAL! The allergist (female) said, after a lengthy meeting, ‘well – I can’t do everything at once. So. I can work on the allergy. Or your sinus issues. Or your skin. I gave her SUCH a Look. ‘okay! Skin it is!’ My sister thought I should begin with the allergies. My sister is a fiend.
However, in that Allergist Way she has pulled all scented products out of my rotation (she tried to get me to not wear eyeliner or mascara… lol! Honey, I don’t get out of bed without those two. Ditto lipliner. Gal’s got to draw the line somewhere. So…. it’ll be awhile before I can review anything perfumey – but y’all know I kinda suck at perfume reviews anyway, so feel free to heave a huge sigh of relief.
What is it with Vanicream? Does every skin doctor have stock in that stuff? Admittedly the ‘stuff’ works – I’m applying it after I put on the rash creams and omg… my skin feels AH-MAYYYY-zing!

But y’all know it’s… petroleum-based. Huh. No Shea Butter (for now) …but petroleum is okay. Okay! Just get my skin sorted, stat!

The scilla in all its Spring glory

We’ve been blessed with a cool Spring. It’s great for the Spring bulbs and ephemerals which cannot survive high 80s… in March, for snakes’ sakes. So these 40-60F days are perfect. I’m a particular fan of Scilla (aka Siberian Squill) and Pushkinia, which are slow to increase but omg! when they do? ShaZAYum! I took a walk (in the blustery bluster) to the Scilla patch – it’s about a block away, tucked under some trees between two old, ill-kept houses and Glory Hallelujah! for large, old, ill-kept houses! Had this been a reno (for anyone but me) or a teardown, they probably would’ve ripped it out. Instead, this cool Spring brough a wave of sky blue beauty about 25’x 50’… and it is enchanting. The cool Spring also keeps it blue – warmer weather tends to trend towards violet which is lovely. But it’s not sky blue. So yet another YAY! for a Cool Spring. My daffodils are showing up – and showing OUT! This is an amazing year for them – dunno if you remember last Autumn’s YUUUGE! bag of white varieties, which I had to find space for among my already jam-packed Spring borders. Well..l I did (of course I did – and it’ll be a miracle if I don’t do that again. sigh)… and they are slowly-but-surely making their debut. Some of them are intensely fragrant – and hey! Nothing I can do about that. Gal’s got to cut a daff here and there, to stank up the house!

And… WINNERS! from the ‘Lowered Expectations’ post: Kathleen and Dina C!

Gmail your evilauntieanitaAT and I’ll get some goodies out to you!