It took me eighty minutes to make my thirty-minute commute today, since nearly every route from Hemet to Moreno Valley was closed due to the wind and smoke.

I arrived home to this:





I liked that tree. oh well.

I wonder how long it's going to sit there on it's side before my HOA sends someone out to drag it away. I almost like it there ... keeps the kids from skateboarding back and forth, and provides a nice sitting place when i'm talking on the phone.

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It's windy and dusty and smoky out here, and I feel shriveled and dry and itchy. I lick my lips and taste dust.

When do we get the cold and the rain?