Fire!...This evening here in CM, the first dense smell of smoke on the land…Glorious!

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

This evening…

 

The first truly-STRONG whiff of smoke….

 

Every year, we mark the passing of each year by the first smell of smoke.

 

The first RUSH of smoke in CM is like the aroma of autumn leaves burning…

Back home.

 

Such wonderful nostalgia.

 

There is no black cloud without a silver lining.

 

And, if one is honest, the first smell of smoke evokes ambivalent  feelings…

Some wonderful.

Some not so wonderful.

 

But this is life, and this is unavoidable.

 

It's like....The Good Earth....

 

Life is what you make of it.

And we should choose to EMBRACE the smoke, rather than run from it, for…

The smoke can never be run from.

 

All we know is that THIS EVENING is our first evening when the smell of smoke is so pronounced that it is undeniable.

 

And so, we now know that another year has passed us by, and that…

We will be passing through the next four months…

Coughing and Wheezing, more or less.

 

I hope that you have taken sensible measures to remediate/compensate for personal damage due to overly-smoky air.

 

For example:

 

a.   Seal up windows.

b.   Board up windows where practicable.

c.   Buy air purifiers, and keep them running 24/7.

d.   Buy respirators and get outdoors and exercise to your heart's content.

e.   Getting out in the smoky air with an expensive respirator is healthy for both body and mind. Sometimes, when out exercising in the smoke, and when one cannot even see the blasting aircraft overhead, when one is wearing an effective respirator, this provides such a feeling of POWER and CONTROL over whatever is thrown one’s way…so very uplifting and thrilling, too.

 

There is much to be said for maintaining the proper attitude during the Smoking Season…

 

1.   Never complain. Complaining is not helpful.

2.   Always maintain a stiff upper lip, and keep lips covered by an N95 mask, at all times.

 

It shall pass, except we just hope it will not pass…too quickly.

Instead, we should learn to appreciate all things in life, just to affirm that we are truly alive.

 

This evening really is, IMHO, the start of the Smoking Season…and so…

 

Let it rip!

 

We are prepared.

Or, we should be prepared.

Are you prepared?

 

Best…cough…

Regards,

Gamma

 

Note:  Still, we are lucky.  This cannot be as bad as the Sinking of Atlantis....or the Burning of Atlanta....

 

 

 

[KhunLA]

I have to say ... you're one F'd up individual   

 

The only time I want to smell smoke, is when someone is grilling or passing me a doobie.   Even when the wife is burning trash, I stay indoors ... no marshmallows or wieners cooking during the burn 

 

Hypocrisy - the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

[GammaGlobulin]

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I have to say ... you're one F'd up individual   

 

The only time I want to smell smoke, is when someone is grilling or passing me a doobie.   Even when the wife is burning trash, I stay indoors ... no marshmallows or wieners cooking during the burn 

 

Hypocrisy - the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

 

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do” (Romans 7:15).

 

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In addition: I was not incorrect.  As we can see, today, here in CM, the mountains are becoming evermore invisible, starting yesterday, when I posted this Topic.

 

I just report it as I see it, or as I do not see it, meaning the mountains.

 

Did you think I was joking?

 

 

[novacova]

10 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

a.   Seal up windows.

b.   Board up windows where practicable.

c.   Buy air purifiers, and keep them running 24/7.

d.   Buy respirators and get outdoors and exercise to your heart's content.

e.   Getting out in the smoky air with an expensive respirator is healthy for both body and mind. Sometimes, when out exercising in the smoke, and when one cannot even see the blasting aircraft overhead, when one is wearing an effective respirator, this provides such a feeling of POWER and CONTROL over whatever is thrown one’s way…so very uplifting and thrilling, too.

GammaG, your lungs have a purpose, is to filter the smoke from the air. So please do us all a favor and use them properly to our benefit. 

[GammaGlobulin]

27 minutes ago, novacova said:

GammaG, your lungs have a purpose, is to filter the smoke from the air. So please do us all a favor and use them properly to our benefit. 

 

Sorry, but....

 

It seems that, after many years in CM, my alveoli have been almost completely filled up with smoke.

No room for much more, I am afraid.

As you can plainly see here.

 

 

My suggestion is for you and your friends to take my place, and BREATHE, if we are ever to filter out all this glop from the CM air.

Let's all work together.

Our lungs are, truly, almost as good, or even better, than a HEPA filter....as you know, by now....

 

Breathe!

Breathe!

 

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do” (Romans 7:15).

 

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In addition: I was not incorrect.  As we can see, today, here in CM, the mountains are becoming evermore invisible, starting yesterday, when I posted this Topic.

 

I just report it as I see it, or as I do not see it, meaning the mountains.

 

Did you think I was joking?

 

 

Hopefully joking, about the joy of smelling the smoke from the burning.   As I was joking, hence the emojis, stating you may be off your rocker .. or not 

 

There's days west of the house, where if not knowing they are there, you wouldn't know the hills are there, barely seeing the outline of the top of the ridge.  That's only 10 kms away.

 

I can tell what the AQI is, by looking at the limestone headlands of the bay from the back veranda.  Clear or blurry, and how blurry.

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, novacova said:

GammaG, your lungs have a purpose, is to filter the smoke from the air. So please do us all a favor and use them properly to our benefit. 

It is a danger to the lungs & body ...