Judy, I assumed it was not a spider because the sting did not leave a wound other than swelling and redness. Tim On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:51 AM Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com> wrote: > All sorts of small bulbs are coming into bloom - Scilla bifolia, S. > tubergeniana, S. (formerly Chionodoxa) forbesii. Galanthus and Eranthis > on the way out. Hellebores are wonderful, even if they are not bulbs. > > Tim Eck - you and your wife might have been stung by a spider. Even > "ordinary" ones can give a very painful bite. > > When we were living in Holland one summer - so long ago our children > were young with barely two digits to their age - our daughter fell off > her bicycle into a patch of nettles. A nearby mother invited her in, > used a calming lotion, gave her a cookie and sent her on her way. > > It's about the time of year when I need to go foraging for nettles, > wearing plastic gloves to collect the young shoot tips. Time for young > Alliaria leaves too. If I can go to the store (unlikely, here in New > Jersey I am prepped with shelf-stable food stuffs and hunkering down in > place) to buy watercress and some other greens, I would make preboggion, > a delicious Italian dish using 7 types of spring greens. > > Oh well. Staying home means that perhaps I will get around to all the > chores I have been saying I will. > > Stay well. Be safe. > > Judy in sunny New Jersey where the weeds are already stretching and > (metaphorically) saying "Time to grow." > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…