Today's 10-minute walk is helping you be consistent with fitness.

We are in spring no matter how you slice it, at least if you're in the northern hemisphere.

I subscribe to the way meteorologists look at the seasons.

So for meteorologists, the weather scientists,

spring began on March 1st. The calendar, though, had spring beginning this week. So whether you're a

meteorologist or you simply do it the traditional way, we are now in spring. Here in South Carolina, in Myrtle Beach, we don't tend to think

of it as spring. We tend to think of it as pollen season. We have this green sheen of pollen

covering everything. And for those who suffer from spring allergies, this is not their happy season.

They either are hunkered down inside waiting for the pollen to leave, or they're using all kinds of allergy medication to stay comfortable.

It's like every walk Ava and I take now. When we see a neighbor, they're commenting on the pollen

and how terrible it is. We have a back porch that is screened in and everything on the porch is covered in green pollen.

And the first year we were down here, it was like, oh, I got to get rid of this.

So I took everything off the porch, hosed it down, hosed down the porch.

It was like, there we go.

Put the furniture back in. Within two days,

it was totally covered again. It was like, well, that didn't work so well. And I learned,

just wait until the pollen is done and then clean it all off. It's just a fact of life. I'm grateful

that I can feel the pollen, but it's not overwhelming.

I'm not someone who has to take medicine or hunker down. It's more the annoying thing that the

outdoor chairs are covered. And every time I go to sit down, maybe on the front porch, I don't even go to the back porch right now.

But I'll head out.

Dave and I will go for a walk, and sometimes I'll go out before she does, and I get ready to sit down on one of the chairs on the front porch.

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