(photo P Volker)
Pretty much all of the West Coast of the US is under this shroud. Wow, that is a good word for it. We are coughing and sneezing with eyes burning. Inside the air is better but the whole situation is downright stifling. We are all waiting for the weather change that was promised us. Well, maybe promised is too big a word.
It is a challenge to keep oneself upbeat with these layers of pestilence in our shroud. In a weak attempt to cheer myself up I have been trying to remember humorous or positive events in the last few days. I know that I am whining. My Rebecca has the cable news on and there are numerous stories of folks loosing their homes. One was the Fire Chief in a community that was working when her home went up. There are folks with real big problems.
I am definitely whining, sorry but that is about all I got today maybe. But I do remember James, Wiley’s friend that went with us on the mountain trip, made us laugh one morning. Well, to be fair, he makes up laugh often with his quirky sense of humor. But on waking up he said that he had Christmas carols playing in his head. Hehe, sounds good to me as long as it’s not the Chipmunks!
Then we were on our way back to Vashon and we stopped in the town of Albe, WA for a Scaleburger. For a what? There is a tiny walk-up stand -in-the-rain burger joint there that we love. It is called Scaleburgers! That is a logging deal. The logging trucks that are hauling cut timber out of the forest have to stop at a scale to get weighed to make sure they are safe for the road. So what would be more appropriate than a Scaleburger? They have different sizes on the menu, I had a “Legal” and the guys both had “Overloads”. They have great fries and made from scratch milkshakes.
We were sitting out at one of the outdoor picnic tables gabbing about stuff and politics came up. Somewhere along that I said to James that in the last election I didn’t vote for the present president but wrote in Pete Carroll the Seattle Seahawks Football Coach. And Wiley said sheepishly that that was one of their favorite stories about me. Geez, that’s funny.
And speaking of FOOTBALL the Seahawks won YESTERDAY! We are so starved for football us Americans. But that is a good start to hopefully a whole season for us. We so need some good news!
Well, thanks for being with me today as I whine. We here are waiting on our rain and wind to come and rescue us. Hope that your day goes well for you.
Monday loves, Felipé.
Next time you go to Elbe, let me know. Nothing better than being with friends to share an excellent burger and shake!
Jessika ~ deal. It is actually worth a trip! Felipé.x
That air from the fires will probably contain carcinogenic materials too as the ones in Borneo and Australia did a few years ago.it’s spreading around the globe 🌎 now and coming here,to Europe,via the Pacific and Asia rather than across the Atlantic so ironically the East coast of the USA will be one of the last places to get it!I had assumed that it wouldn’t, because of the corriolis force, wouldn’t get into the southern hemisphere but I think with hindsight I’m wrong as the Krakatoa explosion caused red sunsets in London and Paris and having checked, Indonesia being a large Equator spanning nation,I see that it, Krakatoa,is 6 degrees south of the Equator.speaking of carcinogenic materials I often wonder if there’s any connection between Chernobyl and the mycosis fungoides that I have developed since the cloud of fissile material passed right over north east England and it dumped a load of radioactive stuff up in the mountains…. from Russia with Love!
Kevan ~ we got a mess on our hands. Borders seem less and less to apply. Sorry about our debris over your head. Felipé.
Hi boss,
You really made me laugh! Thank you!!
I do have a funny thing to share too… associated with you, by the way! I am a city girl… food for me comes in supermarket vacuum sealed bags, de-boned and no feathers… mostly a cow, a chicken and as an oddity, a lamb!!! Then, I got to your home, meeting you for the first time, and what is for dinner? A couple birds just caught, with the feathers, and their little bones…!!! The next day, we went to Catherine and Dana’s… and what’s for dinner? Buffalo!!!
Anyway, first great food experience for a city girl!
Food is love,
Cris
Cris ~ guess we are trying to broaden your horizons city girl! I guess we come from a long line of hunter/gathers. I am happy our smoke doesn’t seem to travel down where you are. Kevan just write that it arrived in England. This stuff is nasty and locally we have maybe some relief on this Thursday with upcoming weather changes. Miss you, Felipé.x
Not your fault!more of a thin gauze here and I saw Jupiter and Saturn through it last night and Venus this morning.
Kevan ~ well, in that case we will send some more! We got plenty. Felipé.
“cough! cough!”
Kevan ~ Yea, I switch between the cough cough and the cough sneeze cough. There might be other possibilities. Felipé.
And coughing people send others running the other way!is it smoke, coronavirus,common cold or flu they don’t hang around to find out and who could blame them! very hazy where I am now in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and I’m hoping to do some stargazing at a place called Ribblehead . very dark skies there but obviously through the smoke mainly from California but Oregon, Washington and British Columbia too although I did notice some states further east, like Idaho,had a few blazes too.at least where you are it normally rains a lot so it’ll wash the muck out of the skies.
Oh Kevan, we are so waiting for that rain. It is supposed to start overnight. It may have some lightning but overall it would be a good thing to douse the fires and wash the muck. Sorry about dirtying your skies so far away. Felipé.
We had a very dry spring and early summer but terrible rain in July and August but now it’s dry again.the smoke wasn’t too bad last night at Ribblehead and I had an amazing view of the arm of the milky way stretching overhead almost one side of the sky to the other.people is cities forget how much the streetlights industry has stolen from us.
Kevan ~ OK, you got the view that you went for. We are still blanketed here and waiting on rain now. It will be a few more days before we get a view of anything. Excuse me while I whine! Felipé.