Okay, readers, will you remind me next year
not to pull the poison oak
with my bare hands? I seem to do it every spring and only realize my mistake when my hand feels like it's going to burst into flames.

I was in my yard last evening, watering some of the new plants that I put in this year and thought I'd pull a few weeds. And, as I habitually do, I was going along pulling weed after weed and,without paying attention, grabbed the poison oak.
So, next year around the end of March, please remind me to be careful. Please?