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greenstorm ([personal profile] greenstorm) wrote2020-09-01 06:52 am

First fire

Cleaned the chimney, started the woodstove last night. Ooof.

The house feels so much nicer though. And there's something about wood heat, it makes the house feel quieter. Stepping out from the warm house into the woodsmoke-smelling cool air outside, though: it's definitely fall.
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[personal profile] yarrowkat 2020-09-15 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
some has! we got another half inch of rain out of that weird freak cold front that came through last week. and the cold front also broke the heat, FINALLY. they were telling us it might freeze here (unprecedentedly early), but it didn't. the wind knocked over some sunflowers, but that's alright. it did get very cold for three days, daytime high barely 4 degrees over the nighttime low on that middle day, and windy and spitting rain the whole time, and once it blew out, we're left with honestly ordinary fall weather! which is SUCH a relief!

of course, now we're breathing smoke (from Arizona, mostly, but some probably is blowing all the way from southern California). we don't have it nearly as bad as everybody west of us, though. yesterday the line of the advancing front of smoke was visible in the sky above town: south, smoke; north, blue sky.




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[personal profile] yarrowkat 2020-09-16 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
the red sun in and of itself can be pretty spooky; the grey sky is harder; the lowering orange sky really makes a body feel like the world is about to end right this minute. it's downright primordial, some kind of brainstem response. i am deeply grateful not to be on the coast this year, and really feel for the people who are living in that visible apocalypse day after day.