Sniff??? It must be Spring!

I don't know if it's just my family - but it seems like someones been sick off and on since Christmas. Fevers, congestion, intestinal issues - we've tried them all! I'm really looking forward to opening up the house and airing it out when it gets warmer!

Of course, since we live in farm country, I must wait until all of the nasty, smelly disgusting chemicals and fertilizers are absorbed into the fields. Last week it was sunny and lovely, but we hid inside with everything closed because the air outside hurt our lungs. Some days it just stinks - but this one actually hurt. It scares me.

Just what are they putting on our foods and into our water supply? (I'm not glowing green yet, am I???) We were traveling down the road past many, many fields of various crops, when we came upon a large crop of rye grass - neon yellow. Now, for those city slickers among us, rye grass IS green - SHOULD be green. And really, neon is NEVER a good color in nature.

We're on the Eastern Shore, so everything goes into the Chesapeake Watershed. Scary, isn't it? Should I mention that the cancer rates around here are alarmingly high?

I'm sure it's just a coincidence, right? I mean - our government would NEVER allow us to be poisoned in the name of economics and money. Uh huh.

So...I'm determined to grow my own vegetable garden this year. Organic veggies, fresh from the ground - growing within 10 feet of a commercial crop with all the stinky stuff it can hold. Want to lay odds my veggies are as polluted as the neighboring field?

Hmmm...so much for simple purity of country living!

Enjoy!