I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.
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Re: Oh, that's just so wrong.
I can sympathize. We've had horribly smoky summers the last couple of years. The year we moved back up here (2004) there was a huge fire about thirty miles north of town and it was so awful that you could barely see across the yard. And of course I was here by myself (Orion was still in Illinois) and I had to spend a lot of time outside, cleaning up the horrific piles of junk in the yard. I wore one of those cheap, disposable face masks (the woodworking shop kind) when I had to be out for more than a few minutes, and kept going through masks ... they'd quickly get all gray-brown as they clogged up with particulates.
Ick. You definitely have my sympathy.
I'm sort of hoping for a cool, rainy summer. The mosquitoes are worse, but the fires are ever so much better.