Oh No, Not More!

After dinner this evening we all went outside to tackle a little yard work. David mowed the front lawn as the rest of us started pulling weeds around the shrubs under the front windows. I yanked up a long, spindly vine...and then I noticed the clumps of leaves scattered up the stem. "Leaves of three, let them be" ran through my head. Yep. Every group of leaves was a set of three. I swung it around and called out, "Is this poison ivy?" David looked over and nodded. I looked back into the shrubs I was digging in. The whole group was filled with poison ivy. But those leaves look nothing like an ivy leaf to me! More like blackberries.

I dashed in the house and scrubbed well with Technu. We'll wait two weeks and see what happens to my skin.

After we all cleaned up, we ran over to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream cones. That's one way to soothe one's potential poison ivy outbreak!