{"id":32117,"date":"2017-08-02T19:38:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32117"},"modified":"2017-08-02T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T03:01:36","slug":"weird-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/weird-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We (but mostly The Wandering Monk) finished the screen porch framing except for the part above the door. That, and hopefully a fair bit of siding, should be done tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Well, barring the standard unpleasant discoveries, courtesy of Ye Olde Wreck’s original builders, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels. <\/p>\n

Fortunately we’ve reached the point where those discoveries are of the “how the heck do we fit those crazy angles together” variety rather than the “why didn’t I just tear the house down when I had the chance?” sort. But there sure are a lot of those little angles that don’t like each other very much.<\/p>\n

Still. Lots of progress and I can’t wait to see siding go up.<\/p>\n

But it was a strange day. Weatherpersons had been warning we might get temperatures near 100 — unusual for these parts. We definitely got a sweaty-hot day, but as it happened we also got smoke from wildfires. <\/p>\n

The morning came up hazy. By afternoon a perceptible scrim of smoke hung between houses on the street. As it gathered, it became eyeball-watering and pungent. Yet the wildfires are hundreds of miles away. <\/p>\n

Just a freak of weather conditions that we should be under this gray pall. Here in the coastal northwet the only other time I’ve seen smoky skies was when a small fire was burning only a few miles distant. Smoky skies don’t happen to people who live under a nearly constant ocean breeze. Except today.<\/p>\n

We were lucky. The haze pushed the temperatures down to uncomfortable-but-safe levels for outdoor work. A friend in another part of the country had it worse. With multiple wildfires within miles of her home, she and her husband loaded up their go-bags. I believe they already departed — for I-don’t-know-where. Good fortune to you, K., if you’re reading this.<\/p>\n

I’m sure she’s not alone. My best to you all who are in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We (but mostly The Wandering Monk) finished the screen porch framing except for the part above the door. That, and hopefully a fair bit of siding, should be done tomorrow. Well, barring the standard unpleasant discoveries, courtesy of Ye Olde Wreck’s original builders, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels. Fortunately we’ve reached the point where those discoveries are of the “how the heck do we fit those crazy angles together” variety rather than the “why didn’t I just tear the house down when I had the chance?” sort. But there sure are a lot of those little angles that don’t like…<\/p>\n

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