On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:56:20 -0600, "Pete C." >
wrote:

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>brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:11:59 -0800, sf > wrote:
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>> >On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:16:36 -0600, "Pete C." >
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can open my windows at night in the nice weather and hear the crickets
>> >> and some frogs at the pond.
>> >
>> >I can't tell you how much I hated that. They are so freekin noisy.
>> >Coming to the city meant peace & quiet and a decent nights sleep for a
>> >change. Best of all, no bugs! YAY!
>>
>> I couldn't live here with opened windows... the constant din of
>> bugs/frogs is nothing compared to tons of pollen. I never open my
>> windows, in fact I got rid of all the window screens... while they
>> were in they'd get so loaded with pollen I'd need to hose them off
>> every day or I'd not be able to see out... and if I dared open the
>> windows all that pollen would blow inside, a disaster... would coat
>> everything 1/8" deep every day. They couldn't install the central air
>> fast enough.
>
>Fortunately, in the several rural places I've lived, the pollen issues
>were confined to a period of less than a week.

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