At least you don't have to shovel it out of the driveway every day
It looks closer in this map than it really is.
We can see the smoke from the Piute fire off to the north, beyond the Tehachapis. This is the view from our front guest bedrooms.
It's probably 50 or more miles away as the crow flies. Or as the fire burns, I suppose. The map of the fires and the data about them live here.
Amanda doesn't seem worried, so I guess I won't worry either.
One of the trees surprised us by flowering. You really do have to watch all the plants for a year before you judge their value.
Tomatoes continue to look promising.
I did get some snail bait, per mom's suggestion. It's safe for all wildlife and pets, just not for snails and slugs.
The instructions said that the stuff attracts the snails and makes them lose interest in eating, which will kill them in a few days. It goes on to tell you that you probably won't see the dead snails as they typically seek solitude when they sense their own death approaching. Reviewing that mental image depressed me a little, but then I remembered the orgy and decided I'm much better off with the mental image of a lonely dying snail than I am with the actual image of snail group sex in my lilies.
We can see the smoke from the Piute fire off to the north, beyond the Tehachapis. This is the view from our front guest bedrooms.
It's probably 50 or more miles away as the crow flies. Or as the fire burns, I suppose. The map of the fires and the data about them live here.
Amanda doesn't seem worried, so I guess I won't worry either.
One of the trees surprised us by flowering. You really do have to watch all the plants for a year before you judge their value.
Tomatoes continue to look promising.
I did get some snail bait, per mom's suggestion. It's safe for all wildlife and pets, just not for snails and slugs.
The instructions said that the stuff attracts the snails and makes them lose interest in eating, which will kill them in a few days. It goes on to tell you that you probably won't see the dead snails as they typically seek solitude when they sense their own death approaching. Reviewing that mental image depressed me a little, but then I remembered the orgy and decided I'm much better off with the mental image of a lonely dying snail than I am with the actual image of snail group sex in my lilies.
How is the fire affecting the air quality in the AV?
Happy 4th! I guess fireworks aren't on the agenda...
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It seems to affect the visibility but not the breathing quality. The high desert has that advantage over "down below" in the LA basin. The shape of the basin and the prevailing winds act as a lid on the area, keeping the smog and smoke in. My first time to Disneyland was the worst I had seen it there, I could taste the smog in the air, let alone just smell it.
But here, the air can be somewhat dusty on windy days, but other than that AV has really clean air.
But when it looks hazy and the relative humidity is 8%, it's probably not moisture haze.
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Oh, and the friggin' fireworks, that will be tonight's post. As a teaser, would you believe that fireworks are not completely illegal in California?
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And yet, last I knew, they do not allow people to own ferrets in CA. They cannot be more dangerous than drunk people with fireworks.
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Yeah, I think you can have a lion but not a ferret in California. I wanted to have some meerkats, but apparently they're verboten too. My guess is that there's some endangered critter like the California supple-butted deer squirrel or something that they're afraid that if a meerkat or ferret population started in the wild, they'd take over the niche.
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Um...you wanted some meerkats??
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Don't you? Have you SEEN them?
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Meerkats are awesome. Whenever I travel, I check the local zoos to see if they have meerkats; they are so much fun to watch. The display at the Toronto Zoo is the best one I've seen so far.
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Ok, I guess I get it. I've been known to watch Meerkat Manor on occasion.
Have you seen Lion King 1 1/2?? Its the best!!
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