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I Can't See the Sky

August 8th, 2017 at 08:40 pm

It's been 12 days since I've been able to see the sky. The smoke haze from B.C. is so bad it is like a ceiling of dirty white overhead. Not like when it is overcast, then you can still see clouds in various shades of grey and white. This is like a lid has been shut over us. Washington state has the worst air quality in the nation right now. Unfortunately, I am having to use my inhaler. It is messing with my lungs.

You take it for granted, seeing the sky. Not seeing it for so long is making it seem claustrophobic, like we are closed in. I can feel it at the back of my neck, making me want to raise my shoulders up and inward against it. I know it is psychological, but the longer it continues, the worse it seems. It makes me feel like I'm in some kind of sci-fi movie where the sky disappears.

The sun and moon through it have been amazing, though. Just brilliant shades of orange shining through to let us know that even if the sky is gone, space is still up there somewhere.

There's not much been going on. I finished up the kidney infection medication and spent a lot of time in bed sleeping during that time. We didn't go out to eat at all for three weeks, but we did get something this weekend and we will go out on the tenth for my daughter's 21st birthday. Then back to not eating out for a good while.

We are up to our ears in gold rush zucchini and patty pan squash. The green zucchini is not doing as well. I lost a lot of them to blossom end rot, so now I am pulling the blossoms off them once they have got to finger size and that seems to be helping. I have green tomatoes now so maybe in a couple more weeks I'll have some red ones.

We lost 2 chickens this week. Henrietta was our oldest chicken. She was six. And then one of the leghorns died as well, but they don't live as long since they are production birds. She was 3. So now we are down to 9 chickens, 6 ducks, and one turkey. We aren't replacing anyone. We thought we might have to get a new turkey hen after Gina died, but George seems to be doing okay now. He's a little sad at bedtime when he's alone, but during the day he seems fine and hangs out with the 3 Barnevelder hens he was raised with.

I didn't do a payday report this week, but all of the money went to pay the AMEX bill in full. That takes care of the last of the medical expenses from the two ER visits and the emergency eye surgery. We still had to pull $3500 out of the Emergency Fund, but at least we didn't have to pay interest on anything.

Maybe in September we can pull ahead again. At least for a little while. Who knows with the job situation still being up in the air like it is.

5 Responses to “I Can't See the Sky”

  1. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
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    Hope you feel better soon. The sky will clear up soon I hop.

  2. Petunia in a Flower Garden Says:
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    The haze has reminded me of summer in LA. I think you have it worse than we do though. At one point I thought I saw rain forecasted for Friday but that might just be wishful thinking.

  3. Pnwmom Says:
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    I'm down here in Portland and I know exactly what you are talking about. Plus the hideous heat wave hasn't helped either. We've been in the mid 90's/low 100's for almost three weeks now. Unusual for the area as I'm sure you know. Forecast is calling for cooler weather this weekend hopefully.

  4. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Oh, yeah, the heat has been ridiculous for this time of year. All high 80's and one day at 91.

  5. rob62521 Says:
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    Hope you are continuing to be on the mend.

    Yay on the zucchini and squash. Hope your tomatoes ripen quickly.

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