Thursday, August 20th, 2026, 6:26 am
The Pavements and the Dust
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T is “proper rainy” today (steady rainfall, not sporadic drizzles) and it feels good, for a change. We need lots and lots of rain. In fact, today we stay home, which means more output like fun (not strictly leisurely) blogging.
This past Sunday I cleaned the pavements here and it felt like I was doing a good job while listening to Discman. I didn’t know the cost of that task though; there was a lot of dust and even though I wore a musk a lot of the dust was still being inhaled and the dust gave me a runny nose for 3 days. That finally got resolved (fully) some time yesterday. So I will no longer work on the floor (I planned to do another round this coming weekend), I will do that again another season, maybe only on a wet/flooded floor where dust remains stuck to the ground. Oddly enough I did not have this sort of problem in past years. I am not sure why.
Housework and housekeeping aren’t worth compromising one’s health.
