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Every spring Maine has a pollen problem. The trees explode with new growth and yellow powder covers everything. And since winter hung on a little longer this year? The pollen season has stretched into summer.
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This was I-295 southbound a week ago.
Not fog. Not smog….
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Pollen. Choking the air.
Makes me glad I don’t have allergies.
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It’s rare, but woodchucks do climb trees. As evidenced by this photo I took of a youngster checking out our apple tree branch.
Even rarer?
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Capturing a picture of the young woodchuck kamikaze diving off said branch.
He was fine and wandered off shortly after the drop.
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Warning – little bit of grossness ahead.
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I bought a rotisserie chicken for a chicken and dumpling casserole recipe the other day. But as I started carving it?
Eewww …
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I can honestly say I’ve never seen whatever the hell this was before.
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A big blood spot on the breast and something disgusting that looked like pumpernickel bread in the meat.
What the hell!
Was it an infection? A tumor?
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Either way, it was disgusting and completely off putting.
Needless to say we ordered pizza that night.
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River's world..... 
Omg. That chicken. Gross. Yep. I am not surprised that put you off.
Seeing pollen like that in the air, I would dread what reaction that would cause me.
I was wondering what was going off there with the young woodchuck. 😁
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I’ve never seen that on a chicken before, and I don’t want to see it again. 🤢
Our chucks climb trees once in a while but usually climb down instead of jumping. That was a surprise.
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The pollen is crazy. Hope you get some rain to wash it away.
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That’s the odd thing this year, we’ve had ample rain. But it just keeps coming…
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OMG! Wow! And Ewww!
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Electrify the apple tree.
And how did it taste? Like chicken? 😉
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No to the electrification and a definite no to the chicken. I wasn’t eating THAT!
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Why won’t you? What possible excuse do you have? Are you … chicken?
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Maybe that’s what happened to the chicken!
😳
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OMG!! to both the chicken and the pollen.
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🤢 Ugh, I hear ya on the chicken. A few years ago I got a rotisserie chicken from Costco that looked like that. The meat counter guy told me it’s just bone marrow that leaked out during processing and “is perfectly safe to eat.” (No thanks.) Ditto the red spot on the meat, it’s a bruise, probably gotten while the chicken was still alive. 😨 Anyway the more I thought about it, the less I wanted to eat chicken. My doctor had been pushing me to eat more protein, but I think I would rather have a soyburger with no bones or bruises.
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It won’t put me off chicken.
But it certainly put me off THAT chicken.
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Doubly disgusting for this vegetarian. Great capture of the groundhog jumping from a tree. I am a lifelong Mainer and have never seen such a thing.
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I’ve seen them climb our trees before, but this was the first swan dive.
😉
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The pollen was bad here this year, but thankfully, it’s mostly past. The chicken…no, just no. Pizza was the right move.
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Thank goodness for pizza. I love your kamikaze chuck photo.
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Happy accident I was taking his picture at the moment he dove.
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Awesome!
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I drive a cardinal red car however, during pollen season it looks pink. Yuck on that chicken.
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Yuck to both.
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Hyuhl! That’s my sound effect for wanting to puke after those pics. Thank goodness for pizza because what the ….???
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I don’t know.
I’ve never seen it before. And don’t ever want to see it again.
🤢
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Yeah. That’s the stuff of nightmares right there.
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The pollen is appallin’ as they say. Nice catch on the chuck swan dive!
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My eyes are watery and itchy just looking at those pollen photos.
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I can’t imagine how hard it’s been for allergy sufferers.
😰
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Did you complain about the Chicken to the store? You might have gotten a refund.
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I didn’t.
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