A dark, smoke choaked, Tolkienesque day. The air quality is “Very Harmful” and getting worse so, given my asthma and post-polio, I am in the house with the air conditioning going. As happens a few times each summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires has traveled great distances to reach, and settle over us. As Canada warms and dries, these events are becoming more frequent.
Earlier I had a few windows and doors open so Nori and I could interact with the outside world. As the air quality worsened she began to show some ill effects so I closed up the house, hoping that would help both of us which it did. At times I feel a tad trapped, even as I fret about the well being of local birds and other wildlife.
The wind has picked up but that seems to only move the foul air around. There are showers well to our north, which fall apart as they drift south. We certainly could use more rain, both to relieve the dry conditions and to wash some of the particulate matter from the air.
On the moving front, we are still missing a few things. They are likely in some of the boxes piled in the studio, which awaits the major redo that must happen before we can unpack it. I am tempted to go digging anyway but so far my better judgement has prevailed.
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