Write Every Day: Day 7

[the_siobhan]

Yesterday went very smoothly, so thank you for all the well wishes.

The good: The temperature has taken a cooler turn, so I am able to go back to writing at my desk. Which I did last night after getting home.
The bad: It's cooler because the sun is being blocked by a thick layer of smoke. All of Canada is on fire. I have been coughing non-stop today after being out in it for most of yesterday. I apologize to everybody downwind for my government, which has been very accurately described as three oil companies in a trenchcoat. (I've also seen it described as three logging companies in a trenchcoat, but you know, tomato tomato.)

Anyway, words happened. And at some point whenever I am hosting WED I remember that I haven't yet put my own name down and this time around it took exactly one week.

Day 7 Tally:
china_shop ysilme

Day 6 Tally:
regshoe badly_knitted trobadora sylvanwitch shadaras nafs silveradept kate sanguinity yasaman cornerofmadness lferion china_shop luzula ysilme the_siobhan

Day 5 Tally:
china_shop sylvanwitch badly_knitted regshoe sanguinity luzula trobadora chanter1944 shadaras cornerofmadness nafs kate lferion yasaman carenejeans ysilme silveradept the_siobhan

Day 4 Tally:
china_shop badly_knitted regshoe trobadora sanguinity sylvanwitch shadaras nafs cornerofmadness yasaman ysilme lferion carenejeans luzula chanter1944 kate silveradept the_siobhan

Day 3 Tally:
china_shop regshoe trobadora badly_knitted sylvanwitch nafs sanguinity kate cornerofmadness lferion carenejeans yasaman ysilme chanter1944 silveradept the_siobhan

Day 2 Tally:
china_shop regshoe badly_knitted trobadora sylvanwitch shadaras nafs chanter1944 silveradept yasaman kate sanguinity cornerofmadness lferion carenejeans ysilme luzula the_siobhan

Day 1 Tally:
china_shop regshoe trobadora sanguinity sylvanwitch badly_knitted nafs yasaman kate cornerofmadness lferion ysilme luzula shadaras chanter1944 silveradept carenejeans

Let me know if I missed you and feel free to jump in any time.

Comments

[the_siobhan]

We have our furnace running with the air con turned off just so that the filter is taking some of the crud out. It smells less like a campfire on the inside of the house, so I think it's helping.

[greylock]

Wait... furnaces (not a thing here?) have filters (and better filters than our aircon?
Today I learned.

A lot of older houses here have sleep-outs, or converted sleep-outs (I assume you don't have them there, but know what they are, but basically: enclosed verandahs.

My old bathroom was one such, and like many bathrooms/toilets of the era had a 10cm strip of flywire that was always open to the elements. It was hella cold in winter, and during the summer fires, if one was close enough: ash everywhere. It would build up, especially overnight.

Especially the summer of the nearby tyre fire.

Little did I know: totally harmless.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-dismisses-wildfire-smoke-harmless-climate-change-1234766334/


Little did