Unlike poor California, Washington has managed to escape fire season without too much incident this year. Imagine my surprise when this happened across the river:
The image quality is terrible, because my camera is not exactly stellar and I had to zoom in quite a lot. Fortunately this was backed up against an orchard, which right now is too wet to burn. My guess is some eejit didn’t fully douse their burn pile and then the wind picked up. Fortunately it only took a few hours to get it out, but that wasn’t a great thing to be seeing.
In other news, I’ve been pretty ill the last few weeks, hence why I’ve been all but silent here. My stomach has decided it hates me, and my doctor is still trying to figure out why. Her best guess so far is IBS, which…no thanks. There’s not really anything that can be done about that aside from finding (and avoiding) potential triggers, which so far seems to be quite a number of foods I actually enjoy. (I’m not and never have been a foodie, and I already had a limited diet thanks to no longer having a gallbladder.) Coming up with meals that are actually appealing has been an exercise in both creativity and frustration, but I’ll get there eventually.
Stevie Barry 