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Mon, Sep 08, 2008

Cold Morning

Posted at 10:49 am MDT to Weather

Someone must have told the weather tha it was after Labor Day: last week was chilly most of the week, with cold rain on Friday. Today is cold and rainy again. I just got back at 10:30 from my allergist appointment and my outdoor thermometer reads 40 F.

Dinah approves of the change of weather. She doesn't really approve of the cold air that comes oout of the floor vents during AC season, and now a couple of her favorite spots are nice and warm again.

The results of the allergy tests today were odd, but useful. I seem to be allergic to oysters and lobsters, but not to crab, shrimp, clams or scallops. And I reacted to both Parmiggiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano (darn), but not to a sheeps' milk Ricotta Salata.

I wonder why the two sheeps' milk cheeses reacted differently. Pecorino Romano is an aged grating cheese, like the Parm, while the Ricotta Salata is a young cheese. But the Ricotta is also made from whey, not curds. I wonder how I would react to a cows' milk ricotta, or whey in general.

My next regular allergy appointment isn't until March. Maybe I'll see about whey and ricotta then.

I'll be seeing the allergist again next month, but just for my flu shot. Since I have an allergy to eggs, she wants to be carefull about it -- though I've had a flu shot every year for about 15 years and it hasn't killed me yet. I definitely want a flu shot: the way I've been catching every virus that comes along this year is not a good sign.

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