Hives Are Not Just For Bees

About a week ago, my doctor prescribed Amoxicillin to take care of my throat issues. 2 days ago I broke out in hives due to an allergic reaction to the Amoxicillin. The hives are mainly on my neck, back and shoulders. They don't really itch much but they do look kind of nasty on me. Hopefully it won't take much more than a week to get rid of the hives.
I wonder what happened to Springtime. It has been in the 60s to low 70s around here. Flowers are growing ahead of what they normally do. This weekend it is supposed to be in the mid 80s. A little too warm too quick for me. I like a slow gradual increase in the temperature. If it gets too warm in the house, it will be time to turn on the air conditioner. It won't be long until there will be lots of flowers blooming. We have a lot of irises getting ready to bloom. As soon as they do, I will get some photos to share with you.

First Iris Of The Year

Hard to believe it is time already for the Irises to start blooming. Here is the first one of the year. It is in our front yard.

Here is an Azalea bush in full bloom in front of our house.

Closeup of the Azaleas.

Birthday Party Followup

By all accounts, my Dad had a great Birthday Party and he really enjoyed himself...which is the most important thing. Veronica and I went back down to help with the cleanup last night. About 90% of the decorations were taken down in about an hour of so. It took about 5-6 hours spread out over several days to get everything decorated and only about an hour to get it taken down. There is still just a few things to get done and I will tackle them this morning. Veronica and I can now focus a litttle more on our upcoming Alaskan cruise vacation which coming up in 19 days. Before that gets here, Veronica has to fly up to Detroit for some type of training session. She will leave this upcoming Sunday and return late Thursday night. When she returns, we will start packing our bags up. I always enjoy the packing up of our bags portion of the trip. It usually means that bigger things are on the horizon for us.