The air is bad. As in "extremely unhealthy" as characterized by those at the Scientific Air Quality Office, whoever they may be (I think it's the borough). That's just one step below hazardous. No one is supposed to go do things outside, and people with asthma and other problems aren't supposed to go outside if they can possibly help it at all.
Not an easy thing to do, when summer is waning and there is still a lot to do to get ready for winter. People are madly working away at their construction projects. Truck drivers and heavy equipment operators are busy, busy, busy all working outside.
My problem is that I can't open windows to cool off my house. I'm not supposed to breathe that air, but being 85° in the house isn't conducive to good sleep either. But it's not just my lungs I have to worry about, it's Buddy Bird, too. An Amazon parrot can't handle forest fire smoke, even less so than I can! So even if I could handle opening a window, and say, then running the air cleaner on HIGH afterward, I'd kill my bird, or at least make him seriously ill. At least as a creature of the jungle he doesn't mind the high temperature.
The dogs and I are too hot, though. What's odd is that the humidity is very high for Alaska, between 40 and 70 per cent. I want to know who sent this Michigan weather, seriously! Yes, I know it's not 90 squared, but it's roughly 70 squared and that's bad enough!
So here I am, trapped inside while the cool air is outside, but too toxic to breathe.
I hope this forest fire smoke goes away soon, though I don't have much hope of that. It may go like this until first snowfall, God forbid!
