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Ahhh, weekend
You can see pictures of the house (and more of my chattage about it) on this thread on Sequential Tart. I'm too lazy (and busy!) to cross-post it all.
This morning I'm unpacking boxes of books and art supplies, and arranging them in my bookcase. Now THIS is the kind of unpacking I like! At some point I know I have to go outside and try to get the stupid malfunctioning chainsaw started so that I can put up the mailbox (getting mail would be nice) but I'm having too much fun inside. And the smoke outside is AWFUL. The last few days, Fairbanks has been under a hideous cloud of smoke, blown down from the forest fires at Central (100 miles northeast of us). It's as bad as it was when the fires were only 15 miles away! Imagine a thick pea-soup fog. Now imagine that it's composed of smoke. You can barely see 100 yards down the road, and breathing is a chore. After a few hours working outside on Thursday night, my lungs felt so awful that I went out yesterday and got a box of carpenter's filter masks. It's better, but in 85-degree weather, those things are so damn hot. I wish it would at least cool down a little.
The air quality yesterday was 650 whatevers per whatever (I forget what units they use). By comparison, 500 is as high as the EPA's air quality scale seems to go -- by that point, you're deep into the "hazardous" section.
I think I'll go unpack my comics now. I may not get outside at all today.
This morning I'm unpacking boxes of books and art supplies, and arranging them in my bookcase. Now THIS is the kind of unpacking I like! At some point I know I have to go outside and try to get the stupid malfunctioning chainsaw started so that I can put up the mailbox (getting mail would be nice) but I'm having too much fun inside. And the smoke outside is AWFUL. The last few days, Fairbanks has been under a hideous cloud of smoke, blown down from the forest fires at Central (100 miles northeast of us). It's as bad as it was when the fires were only 15 miles away! Imagine a thick pea-soup fog. Now imagine that it's composed of smoke. You can barely see 100 yards down the road, and breathing is a chore. After a few hours working outside on Thursday night, my lungs felt so awful that I went out yesterday and got a box of carpenter's filter masks. It's better, but in 85-degree weather, those things are so damn hot. I wish it would at least cool down a little.
The air quality yesterday was 650 whatevers per whatever (I forget what units they use). By comparison, 500 is as high as the EPA's air quality scale seems to go -- by that point, you're deep into the "hazardous" section.
I think I'll go unpack my comics now. I may not get outside at all today.
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So so jealous XD ...But also very happy for you, must be nice to be back at your roots--Alaska is where you grew up, right?
Anyhoo, congratulations!! ^o^
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The house cost way more than I should have paid for it. >_< We're gonna be under this mortgage for awhile. But it was worth it.