I Took The Plunge

Well, it's that time again.  Time to get the old boobies smashed, and since I was already in town, I decided to go ahead and run by Walmart today instead of tomorrow.  

While I was there, I finally took the plunge and bought a selfie stick. 

No, I won't be deluging you with a bunch of selfies, so you don't have to worry about that!  But I thought I kind of wanted to do a little vlogging --  even though my first couple of vlogs didn't seem to be all that popular -- and what basically amounts to a phone handle would make that much easier.  

Now for the question, what would you like to see me do vlogs of?  Pretty much anything is on the table -- as long as it is family friendly and PG rated.  

Oh, and on impulse, I picked up this skein of yarn. 

I thought it would make some pretty hats, and I'm almost out of all my variegated or self striping yarns.  I've got quite a bit of solid color yarn left, but most of it is blue or gray.  I need something exciting.  

In other news, I think I may have messed up when I planted the sunflower seeds in the same tray as the others.  Some of them are almost as tall as the lid now, so I'm going to have to do something with them sooner rather than later. 

I went ahead and ordered some of those garden cloches, and I have some of those things you buy plants from Walmart in, so I might transplant them into those and put them outside after hardening them off, of course.  It's a learning experience...

By the way, if you look very carefully, you can see what appears to be one single teensy little cosmos coming up.  I'm not going to tell you where it is.  I'll just wait and see if you can find it. 

Consider it an early Easter Egg hunt... 

Schadenfreude

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.  And how we are loving it.  And should probably repent, but probably won't. Ok, here's the story. 

Remember how Demi-god was going to come and teach us poor plebs how sub-brazing should be done?  Remember him bragging that he can braze 500 headers a day and all?  

He's starting to find out it's a completely different story when you have to actually follow the rules and can't just do whatever you want.  When you have to actually go by the schedule and can't pick and choose which orders you get.  That's what he'd done on second shift, and the group leader would save all the big orders of easy parts for him, but on day shift has to do whatever is next on the schedule, and he does not like it.  Not one bit.  

So yesterday he was over there crying to the Supervisor about how few headers he's been able to do since he got up there.  He didn't even do 200!  What a travesty!  First he was blaming the adapter tubes not being cut correctly, but that's no excuse because we all have to deal with that.  Then he was saying he didn't feel good, but that's no excuse either, because we all have to sometimes come to work when we don't feel good.  

But wait, there's more. One day last week, one of the test tank operators was out, so they sent Demi-god back there to run it.  He was not happy.  He was slamming his papers around and glaring at everybody, but he went.  That brings us to today.  

Again, one of the test tank operators was out, so Supervisor told Demi-god to go back there.  Again, he was not happy.  I though I heard him mutter something about going home, but he didn't.  Well, after lunch, one of my coworkers told me that Demi-god had gone to Cuz and complained that he was tired of being moved all the time. Cuz told him to go talk to Daddy, and supposedly Daddy told him, "You'll be all right.  Go on over there and get to work!"  

And some of my coworkers learned a new vocabulary word today:  schadenfreude. 

In other news, Monday the Ford place called me and let me know the part for my car was in, and they'd scheduled me for March 5th -- which is next Tuesday.  Shouldn't be a problem.  So, first thing yesterday morning, I put in for a vacation day and I had to spend the rest of the day sitting on my hands -- figuratively speaking -- so I wouldn't hunt down Supervisor and nag and pester and worry and beg him to approve it.  "I need this day.  I have something I have to do.  I need you to approve it!"  

Because that's what we have spent the last 18ish months having to do.  

I talked myself off that ledge, reminding myself that this Supervisor isn't...well, now that he's gone, I supposed I can tell you the nickname we had for him, which was Bozo.  I reminded myself that this isn't Bozo and he'll get it taken care of and so was able to finish the day without worrying him to death about the vacation request.  Sure enough, when I checked this morning Supervisor had already approved the day, so now I'm all set to get my car finally fixed.  Even better, the Ford place is going to come pick it up from my house, so I don't have to sit all day in their waiting room watching TV and knitting.  

I can sit all day at home watching TV and knitting.  Which is much better. 

In weather news, it was 72° when I got up this morning and by lunch time it had dropped to 53°.  Normally, I don't light a fire until it's down in the 40s, but since it's so late in the season, I splurged when I got home and now the house is toasty warm.  I think I'll get a little hot chocolate a bit later on, too.  

Look at this:  I came home to three more seedlings poking their heads up. 

That makes 7 all together.  They're all sunflowers, so far.  I'm hoping the others will start showing up pretty soon.  It's only been 5 days since I planted them, and yes, I know I'm being impatient. 

I'm thinking about buying some garden cloches and planting them outside as soon as they get strong enough.  That way, even if we do have a late frost, it will be easy to cover them with a garbage bag.  I just need to decide where to put them.  

If they even survive, that is. 

And now, I think it's time for that hot chocolate. 

Laters...

Life!

Life! Life!  I have given my creation liiiiife!!!

Ok, yeah, that was a bit dramatic, but look at what I found when I got home this afternoon!  

This is one of the sunflowers I planted, and there are three altogether.  I hope the rest germinate, and I hope they survive.  Still nothing from the other two types of plants, though, but look what else is showing signs of life.  

This is what I believe to be a wild blackberry.  We shall see.  

While I was wandering around the back yard, I found some violets starting to bloom. 

And more of my daffodils are starting to open up.  

Unfortunately, my little bluebonnets look like they're dying.  My friend who lives in New Braunfels is already getting blooms, but mine are struggling.  I know I should probably just give up, but I'd really love to have a little stand of home here.  I'm considering getting one of those big, half-barrel looking planters and planting them year to year.  It looks like that's the only way I'm going to get me some bluebonnets.   

In the midst of all that, I decided to repot my Venus Fly Trap.   I left him in the same pot, but separated the rhizomes and spread them out a bit. 

He looks pretty rough right now because he is just beginning to come out of his winter dormancy.  He'll settle down in a few weeks and start putting out new leaves.   I probably won't need to re-pot him for another 2-3 years, and by that time, he will need a bigger pot.  

All that to say, my poor potting table is in the back part of the shed that used to be old chicken coops.  I had it tucked right up against the back wall, but the only problem is it's so dark back there I can't even see. 

I kept having to bring Marty Mac out into the sunlight so I could see what I was doing.  I finally got fed up and re-arranged.  I brought the potting table up towards the front of the old coop where it's got plenty of light now.  

It's much easier to see what I'm doing now.  Alas, it's much easier for you to see what a mess I left...Eh, I'm going to re-pot my Whatever Cacti soon, and I'll clean it all up soon. 

In other news, they've got this new thing going at work -- besides the weird music, that is.  Instead of just posting the announcements on the screens like they used to, now they have two of the HR people giving them like a news break.  They call it ADP News You Can Use.   The main problem with that is, you can't hear them.  If anyone is paging, or any machines are running, or a forklift is driving by they completely drown out the sound from the TV screen.  

One thing they're going to start doing is having a couple of employees of the month.  Other than that, I have no idea what the rest of the announcements were.   But I think what they're really doing is trying to convince us that this isn't a horrible and toxic place to work. 

The chamber of commerce announced yesterday that a new industry would be coming to Grenada soon, and Milwaukee Tools has started accepting applications, and the "core group of employees who will stay with us no matter how badly we treat them" are going to be aging out and retiring soon...

I think they're starting to panic a bit.

More about that in another post.  Right now, I need to get something to eat. 

Laters.

A New Thing

I am so sleepy and I don't really know why.  I slept pretty well last night, even though 4:30 still comes mighty early.  I don't really have a lot to talk about today, but I had to show you my little bunch of jonquils.  

Plus, I've got a daffodil in the back yard where I had transplanted some of them last year. 

I'm hoping they're in a better spot, and will grow and spread, instead of dying back the way they were in the previous spot.  

Still nothing growing in here, but I went ahead and turned on the grow lights just in case.  

I've got it set to a 12 on/12 off cycle, so that ought to be good for them.  When they do germinate, that is. 

In other news, I bought myself a little Valentine's Day gift.   But first, you need a little back story. 

A couple of years ago, a new show started on CBS called Ghosts.  It's a really cute show, and is now into its third season.  In the show, a couple from New York named Samantha and Jay inherit an old country house and decide to turn it into a bed and breakfast.  

During the renovations, Sam trips and falls down the stairs and spends some time in a coma.  I think it was 6 months, but I don't remember for sure.  After she recovers and goes back home, she discovers that she can see and hear ghosts, and her house is haunted.  It's a really cute show and I've enjoyed watching it.  It's up on Paramount +, if you have the subscription to that.  

It's based on a BBC series of the same name, and naturally I was curious about the original series since the BBC shows seem to always be much better than their American counterparts.  The one exception to that rule has been The Office.  I hated the BBC version of that.  

OK, enter Horrible Histories.  They put that show up on Hulu sometime last summer, and I absolutely love that show.  It's a British children's show that teaches history through comedy sketches and songs, and has many of the same actors in it as are in Ghosts.  I'd gone to YouTube to see if I could make a playlist of some of my favorite songs, and the algorithm kicked in and began showing me clips of some of these actors' other roles -- including Ghosts.  

This peaked my interest and I began to look for places to watch it. Unfortunately, none of my streaming services has it.  Until the writer's and actor's strikes began. The networks began scrambling to find stuff to fill the time slots, and in November, it was announced that the UK version of Ghosts would begin airing on CBS.  Hooray!

I watched the first two episodes and was totally hooked.  So much so, I bought the entire series from Amazon -- and I mean, all five seasons.  The BBC version has so much more depth and richness than the American version, and I hate that it ended so soon.. 

Which brings us to about a week and a half ago.  I was doing something and had YouTube on for background noise, and the algorithm kicked up a video of something like a comic-con taking place over in England somewhere.  This particular video was a Q&A session with some of the actors from Ghosts.  

Somewhere in there, they mentioned a book they'd done called the Button House Archives.  The way they were talking about it, it sounded really cool, so off to Amazon I went.  And here it is:

 I've only glanced through it at this point, but I'm loving it.  It's a collection of papers, 

and notes, 

and the backstories of the ghosts.  

All of it is in period appropriate print, as if they'd found all this stuff in the house and put it into a book.  

Yes, I'm a dork, but I love this kind of stuff.  Which means I'm about to abandon you for my new book. 

Laters...

Knitting And The Bard

I am almost done with my emotional support chicken.  I finished knitting the last piece this afternoon.  

It's going to have to wait a minute before I sew it up and stuff it, though.  I looked through my button box and tried to find some that would work for eyes, but none of them looked quite right, so I'm going to have to order some safety eyes -- unless I drive up to Southaven or back down to Jackson again, which I don't really want to do.  Not for a minute, anyway.  I can only do so many things before I need a break from thing doing. 

In the meantime, I'm still working on hats, 

and I'm still adding a few rows to this scarf here and there. 

In other news, it was a gorgeous day -- sunny and warm, but not too hot.  I was able to open my doors and windows and let some fresh air into the house.  The spring-like weather has made me anxious to get out and plant a garden of some sort, but I know it's still too early for that.  We've had frost as late as mid-April, so I usually wait until then to plant stuff outside.  I asked Cody and Brennan if there was anything in particular they wanted me to add to my herb garden, and they gave me a few ideas.  Even if everything I planted last year survived the freeze, I've got three empty spots, so I can accommodate at least some of their requests. 

I'm actually kind of wanting to get another one.  Raised planter, I mean.  Don't know what I'm going to put into it, but I've had so much fun with the one I have, I want to do more of it.  Maybe I can put flowers into that one. 

Speaking of,  I've probably checked my mini greenhouse about 500 times since Friday, even though I know good and well nothing will have germinated this soon.  But as soon as something shows its little green head, I will certainly let you know.  

And finally, I finished reading Love's Labor's Lost, by The Bard.  Quite frankly, I isn't one of my favorites.  I didn't find a whole lot of videos of the play on YouTube, but I did find a couple.  One was filmed like a movie.  I tried to watch it, but about ten minutes in, I gave up and went looking for another version.  I found a Shakespeare By The Sea version that was pretty good, even though it was updated with modern costumes and stuff.  It looked like a bunch of college kids putting it on, and I thought they did a really good job. If you're interested, you can watch it here:  Love's Labor's Lost. 

Next up is A Midsummer Night's Dream.  After that, I think I'll take a break from Shakespeare and read something a little lighter.  

I'll let you know. 

Gem Show

Whelp, despite my best efforts to get out of it, today was that gem and mineral show down in Jackson.  Grumbling and grousing the whole time, I got out of bed this morning and headed South.  Once I was there, I had a good time.  It's just getting myself going that's the trouble. 

The only thing is, I've got to figure out what is wrong with my car sound system.  It was snapping and staticky last fall, so I turned it off.  I don't know what I did to it, but now it won't even turn on.  I hit the button, and the on screen flashes for a moment, then it turns right back off.  Thank goodness for radio garden on my phone, or I'd have had to make that whole trip in silence. 

So I made it to Cody and Brennan's house, picked them up, and off to the gem show we went.  They had a guy there directing people paying the entry fee in cash to one side, and those using cards to the other.  Cody said, "What if you bought your tickets online?"  He told us to go see this one woman, who blessed us enthusiastically for pre-paying, then tried to give Brennan a discount for being under 16 years old.  "I'm 23!" she said.  

"You have good genes," the lady replied.  And with that, we were inside, and Brennan was in hog heaven. 

I was more interested in the fossils and stuff, including dinosaur fossils that were found here in Mississippi. 

These were found up near Booneville, which is north of Tupelo. 

It didn't say where this one was found, just that this animal roamed through what is now Mississippi.

This is just a bunch of different kinds of petrified wood. 

These were some more fossilized bones.  The mastodon jaw is actually behind the bison skull, because the man behind the table was showing it to someone.  

Here are some more jaws with teeth. 

And more fossils.

And even more fossils. 

It wasn't all fossils, though.  There were plenty of vendors selling stones and gems like these. 

Other vendors were selling stuff they'd made with the stones.  Carvings, jewelry, et.  

There were plenty of geodes for sale as well. 

There was even a table where you could buy a geode, and they'd break it open for you right there.  That was pretty cool, but that line was very long, so we passed it on by. 

Me, I didn't buy anything, but here is Brennan's loot.  

A giant geode, pens filled with stone fragments, and a couple of pendants made to look like keys. 

After leaving the show, we ran back to Cody and Brennan's house to drop off her stuff and grab their fishing gear.  Alas, we never made it to the Ross Barnett Reservoir -- known locally as The Rez-- to fish.  We were going to grab a bite of lunch first at a place right on the Rez called Shaggy's, but when they told us it would be an hour wait just to get a table, we left and went to a Mexican place instead.  

Then we went shopping.  I found a Michael's, but didn't find that Red Heart yarn I was looking for.  I don't know if you remember, but they came out a while back with self patterning yarn to make granny squares with. As soon as I saw it, my first thought was "I wonder how it would look knit up into a hat."  While I was there, I looked for some regular googly eyes for my Emotional Support Chicken, but they didn't have those, either.  

After that, we went to Bass Pro Shops and a couple of other places, but by that time, we decided we didn't want to have to rush to fish.  Cody and Brennan said they were going to go later, but by that time, I was ready to come home and still had that 100 mile drive to make.  Which went off without a hitch, and I'm sure my little car breathed a sigh of relief when I got back behind the wheel after being driven through Jackson by Cody all day.  

He drives a lot harder than I do.

Anyway, that was my Saturday, and though it was great to spend the day with Cody and Brennan, I'm tired now and ready go to to bed.

Good night. 

It's Here!!!!

 It's here!  It's here!  It's here!!!!

And just what is here, you may ask.  Well, I'll tell you.  

This!

Um, what is that?  It's my mini greenhouse!!!

It's so cool.  It has a seed tray and a cover with humidity control thingies. 

And a grow light.

A soil meter and little bitty gardening tools, 

and a heat mat. 

As soon as I got home, I got the two packets of seeds I'd bought,

plus the sunflower seeds I'd gotten from my nephew's wedding, 

and got them planted.  The seed tray had just enough cells to put two to three seeds in each one, and use up all four packets of seeds, so that worked out well.  

Then I brought it inside and put the tray onto the mat and put the cover on, with the grow lights.  

I won't need them until the seeds germinate, but they're all set up and ready to go when that does happen.  When these immortal snakes of mine finally go to that great herpetarium in the sky, I'll set up a place in the corner of that room for it, but for now, it's on my kitchen counter.  

I just hope the warming mat and grow lights make a difference, as I've never been able to successfully grow anything from seeds. My friends tell me there is a knack to it, and once you get that knack, it's super easy, but I can't seem to figure it out.  Oh well, we'll either get it or we won't. 

Oh, I did read something that most people over water these types of seed trays, because the top dries out, but the bottom is still damp, which leads to root rot.  I'll have to figure out how and when to correctly water my seed tray.  That probe thing has a moisture meter, so maybe that will help me tell how dry the bottoms of the cells are. 

In other news, I also got some new Santa stickers to use this year when I do my Christmas cards. 

Because they were already in my shopping cart and I forgot to move them to the Save For Later section before I placed my order.  

And finally, I just thought you'd like to hear the weird music they're playing at work.  At least now, they've limited it to the start and end of each shift. It's not the best video, and there's a lot of hissing and background noise, but you get the idea.  

Oh, and there is no video because I had my phone laying on my stand the whole time. 

I just want to know one thing...why?  

Miscellany

Unless you've been under a rock, you'll no doubt know about the widespread AT&T outage today.  I didn't find out about it until I'd already gotten to work and needed to text Cody about something, but couldn't.  I saw that SOS at the top, and thought I'd somehow done something to accidentally lock myself out of my phone.  

Like a dummy, the first thing I did was to try to get online to google how to turn off, not realizing I had no internet access.  I mean, I'd played my morning Wordle and had checked the weather before I left for work, right?  Yeah, but that was when I was connected to my home internet -- not through AT&T. 

When that didn't work, I tried rebooting it a couple of times, then finally asked one of my younger, more tech savvy coworkers if she knew how to fix it.  

"Are you with AT&T?  It isn't just you.  They're out everywhere."  

Shortly after lunch, another coworker asked if my service was back, because hers had just come back on.  No, mine was still out.  When it came back up about 30 minutes later, I went over and told her.  She said, "We're just like a couple of teenagers.  We've got to have that phone."  I replied, "Yeah, but when we were teenagers, the phone was bolted to the wall!"  

Once I was able to get back online, that outage was pretty much all the talk.  But other than that, the rest of the day passed without incident....mostly.  One of my fellow brazers walked up to me and said, "That guy really is creepy.  I was watching him as I was coming out of the bathroom, and he was staring at you the whole time he was walking by.  That's scary."

But I think I'll save that and one day do an entire post about my various stalkers...For the record, I'm not afraid of Creepy Weirdo, or of my other Stalker for that matter.   I'm frustrated because I know I could put an end to the harassment today, but they are protected by the plant's idiotic zero tolerance policy, so I have to just stand there and put up with it.  

Right before the shift ended, Cody texted me and said they'd gotten me a ticket to that rock and mineral show down in Jackson.  That's what I had planned on texting him about anyway, only I was actually wanting to back out from going.  But when he mentioned they'd already bought me a ticket...I guess I'm going to a rock and mineral show.  

Later, after I got home, he texted again and asked if I had a fishing license, because he wants to go to the Ross Barnett reservoir after the show and do a little fishing.  It's been so long since I went fishing that when I went out to the shed to get my rod and tacklebox, they were filthy.  So filthy, I put the tacklebox into the shower with me and scrubbed it down when I scrubbed myself down.  Then I hopped online and renewed my fishing license, which I'd let lapse last fall. Now, I'm all ready to go to Jackson Saturday.  

Just not mentally...

Oh, we're off Saturday, too, so I can go.  I've heard we'll be working every other Saturday for a while to make up for the week long shutdown because of the ice storm.  I don't know if it's true, but that's just what I heard. I'm not complaining.  My bank account could use that little pick-me-up. 

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get off of here and start that last little section of my Emotional Support Chicken, so I'll just leave you with today’s ear worms: The Four Georges and Real Life Cowboys , both from Horrible Histories. 

And today's weird music announcement:  "Now serving # 205 at window 3."

Honestly, that guy is the only redeeming factor of them playing that weird music. 

Spring!

 Spring is here!  Lookit what I have blooming in my front yard!  

I've been seeing daffodils in other people's yards and by the roadside, but so far, there hadn't been any in my yard.  I think it might be because I'd moved them last year.  Sometimes they don't bloom that first year after they've been moved. 

Anyway, I came home to find these mini daffs.  They're so cute!  

Speaking of cute, I'm almost done with my emotional support chicken.  

I got the main part of the body knit this afternoon, then did the comb and wattle. 

I still have to knit the belly piece, then sew it all together and stuff it, but this is what it's going to look like once I get it all finished.  Sort of.  

Oh, yeah, I'm going to put eyes on it, too.  I'll probably just go with buttons for eyes, and hopefully I can find some that match the pink stripes.  I might already have some in my button box. 

The bad news is I can't remember what else it was I was going to tell you.  I didn't even have an earworm today, so I'm just going to end this with the weird music announcement from work:

"Billy Wayne, I need a price check on beanie weenies on line one."

Now I'm going to go to bed early. 

Goodnight. 

Moving Right Along

 My Emotional Support chicken is moving right along. 

And if you fold it in half, it's even starting to look like a chicken.  

The bulk of the knitting is almost done, and I should be able to finish it pretty soon.  I know some of you have also talked about knitting one, and I'd love to see yours.  

This is going to be short, because I have been watching a documentary series on England's She-Wolves on Tubi.  It was pretty interesting.  If you're into history and all that, you might want to check it out.  Of course, it only ran from Henry I's daughter Matilda to Good Queen Bess, but it's still worth watching. 

But I do have to tell you that someone at work finally said something to Demi-god about using his purge gas.  Only, it was Supervisor.  Not the quality guy who spent all those months bullying the rest of us about it.  Heh, Demi-god told Supervisor he doesn't like using it, and Supervisor said, "Well, you have to."  

I never understood if that purge was so important why where the day shift sub brazers the only ones required to use it.  If it were that critical, they'd have made it mandatory for everyone on all shifts.  I asked about it once, about why the other shifts didn't have to use it, and I was told it was up to them to decide if they wanted to.  That right there tells me it isn't all that important. 

And finally, today's earworm:  The Sound Of Silence.  But only the tune, because the only words to the song I know are Hello, Darkness my old friend, and the soooouuund of silence.   I wrote a parody of it last year when Sahara Dust season started.  Maybe I'll post it when Sahara Dust season starts again this year. 

I kept jumping back and forth between that one, and the Tchaikovsky piece with the cannons.  You know the one I'm talking about.  The 1812 Overture for those of you who don't. 

That's about it for today, because it's already past my bedtime.  

Good night. 

One Nice Thing

One nice thing about working Saturday was not having to listen to that weird music they’ve been playing. This morning was not so nice.   

You guessed it.  As soon as employees started arriving, they put that music on.  Someone got on the loudspeaker and said, "Your call is important to us.  Please continue to hold and an operator will be with you shortly."  I guess you had to be there, but it was hilarious because it does sound like that music you play when you're on hold. 

They started playing it again at the end of the day, and the same guy said the same thing, so they switched to a different song.  It wasn't any better.  I'll be glad when they switch to silence.  Or at least something worth listening to, like Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, or Rachmaninoff.  

Oh, that reminds me.  I think I'm going to start a new blog feature -- My Daily Earworm.  I actually thought about it Saturday, but I forgot to post.  Saturday's earworm was March of The Toy Soldiers from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.  Today's earworm was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Fourth Movement.  

Moving right along, I have good news and bad news about the car.  The good news is it isn't my brake lines that are leaking.  It's a shock  -- and I mean an automotive shock, not an "EEK!" shock -- so that was a bit of a relief.  The bad news is it's going to be expensive to replace, but it always is when you go to a dealer.  Shadetree mechanics may be cheaper, but they -- at least the ones around here -- prey on single women.  There aren't any I feel I can trust, so I go with the dealership.  They had to order the part, and will call me when it comes in.  When it does, I'm going to see if they can come pick the car up at the plant so I don't have to miss a day of work.  That's a new service they offer nowadays.  Or I may just call in and use an emergency vacation day and let them come pick it up from my house.  I haven't decided yet. 

I was in and out pretty quickly -- so quickly that this is all I got done on my hat.  

Meanwhile, I'm making progress on my emotional support chicken. 

I don't think I'll be making too many of these.  They aren't difficult, but the gauge is so tight it makes my hands get sore pretty quickly.  I mean, the gauge has to be tight to keep the filling from falling out, but still...

And finally,  it would seem spring allergy season is upon us.  I woke up this morning with a raging headache and sinuses that felt like they were going to explode.  Then I got bummed, because I opened my WebMD app to check the pollen levels only to discover they'd discontinued the allergy tracker.  I re-downloaded the Zyrtec allergy tracker for the time being, but it's not one of my favorites, so now I'm looking for one I like better.  

There are several in the app store to choose from.  I just need to find the one I like best.