I will admit to being a tad anal when it comes to trying to stay clean but yesterday I had a perfect excuse to cleanse myself of toxins.  Our townhome association is having our decks stained (something we do every 2 years) so we need to have all our items removed from the decks.  The one big piece on the deck is the table which consists of a glass top and steel sides and legs.  Since a deck table is more bulky than heavy I had to tip it to the side to get a good grip.

It’s bad enough that this time of year we get about an 1/8 of an inch of yellow pollen each day while the trees are breaking out of their winter slumber.  At this point my hands are caked with the yellow residue from the outside furniture.   As I tipped the table I remember that the legs are hollow and they have 2 years of accumulated brackish rain water and condensation inside them just waiting to be let free.  Sure enough, that disgusting cocktail of opaque water containing dengue fever, bubonic plague, botulism and dysentery splattered all over my left leg and foot.  Yuck, yuck, and more yuck.  I feverishly moved the table off the deck and rushed inside, declaring to Megan “Not to be a drama queen, but I need to take a shower ASAP.”

I think I washed most of the diseases off, removing at least 3 layers of skin on my left leg.  If you don’t see blog posts later this week, it’s because I succumbed to the Black Plague and my white blood cells are working their asses off to keep me alive.