Moving alone

Moving time

Well, you know the feeling when you are moving, it finally struck me. I am kind of panicking. How much fits in a car? Also, I do not want to put everything in the car. I am not bringing any furniture, only clothes and some items, which seem to be adding up. I have slowly been moving the past year, and when W came up this March he brought back a whole suitcase of my stuff. How much stuff can you own?? Completely crazy. Luckily I have managed to get almost all of my furniture sold! Success for me. This mean we have some gas money for the ride. And I don't think we will have to throw away or give away too much. I would say I have been pretty good. I also realized that I have to clean out my office. 

Right now we have such a nice weather, sunny and 79℉, YES 79℉ (26℃)!! can you believe? It is suppose to be even warmer tomorrow. On Sunday my plan is to go into the park (Denali National Park), my last adventure i Alaska, but the forecast calls for rain :/ . My plan for tomorrow is to go and get water and then finishing up cleaning.

As I wrote in my previous post we have a lot of pollen in the air, not as much as May 2nd, but still a lot. My car is so covered with pollen, it's actually kind of crazy, don't think I have ever seen it quite like that. Apparently mold values are really high too right now. Birch and Alder are also pretty high. 

Here are some pictures from the past couple of weeks.

Something is in the air...

Breaking Records

    A couple of days ago Fairbanks broke yet another record. This Year is really turning out to be some kind of new record year when it comes to long-term monitoring. On May 2nd Fairbanks measured birch pollen at 4290 grains per cubic meter of air. Tanana Valley Clinic has this neat webpage where you can se the daily counts of all the different pollen counts. Now, to put that number in perspective, 175 grains per cubic meter of air is considered high...

    I for once didn't actually notice that there was a big pollen day, and I figured that I am probably more sensitive to one of the other pollen contributors. Today Birch, Spruce and Alder has been high so my guess is that I am either sensitive to Spruce or Alder. 

Science

    When I was googling away I came across an old article about tree pollen, and it showed the general order of the different tree species and their pollen in the Boreal Forest, which I thought was pretty neat. 

    I really wanted to take a picture of the pollen I saw flying around in the air yesterday evening, but didn't really succeed, so I took a picture of my car instead.

    How is the pollen where you guys are at? Some webpages says that Fairbanks broke the world record for birch pollen on May 2nd, but then one page is saying that Denmark had the previous record and another one says Sweden, so I am not sure about that. What I do know is that we did at least break the record for Fairbanks itself.