In today’s Salt Lake Trib:Sniffles, sneeze? Blame those trees.

Oh, joy. David and I both suffer from allergies. And in fact, I always get a sinus infection when I go to Utah in the winter, and often get sinus headaches when I go other times of the year – a combination of the dry, polluted air and local pollens, probably.

My mom is really allergic to cottonwood pollen, she’s probably suffering now. I’ve just warned Da Hub that we’d better pack all the allergy junk we’ve got (fortunately, we’ve both got prescription nasal antihistamines in addition to regular presription pills – we use them when the allergy symptoms “spike” seasonally.

We’ll be in Salt Lake from Friday morning until Tuesday, partly for my niece’s wedding reception, partly to dink around visiting Mom and playing tourist, meeting Internet friends, and so on.

I think at least one day we’ll drive up into the mountains, maybe go to Park City or so on.