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With a wind shift, we are now at an air quality index of 58, which is "moderate"ly bad. An improvement over yesterday's 190! Sedona by comparison is 34 today.

I was reading about the Canadian fires yesterday and came upon a not so fun fact - some of them have been burning since 2023. They smolder underground over winter and flare up in the spring. The article called them "zombie fires". I have heard of roots smoldering and reigniting in CA fires, but burning for 2 years and over winter is crazy to me.

My dad seems to be feeling better. I wish I knew what the answer was. But I fear there is no answer and this is the trade-off for him still being with us with the artificial urinary tract system he's left with. He's a trooper for sure.

Today I will clean out some closets to find Goodwill items. I figure the architect will need to look at said closets and I would rather not have her look at them as they are now... Given I don't live here full time, there's not a ton in them, but it's mostly things I didn't know where else to put, which always ends up looking like the hodgepodge it is. I also need to do some general cleaning.

Tonight I'm making a brothy tomato and rice soup I saw on NYT Cooking and grilled cheese sandwiches. It's only going to be in the 60s today, so a summery soup sounded good. I loathe cold soups (gazpacho, I'm looking at you - might as well eat salsa with a spoon), so this seemed like a lighter, warm, summer version.

I also need to figure out how to get a couple of plants out of a bed. One is a small deer eaten lilac and the other is a stubborn grass mound and neither wants to budge even with a sharp spade. This is where a strong husband would come in handy!

Off to find out where Kirby wandered to... take care all

Diane, as soon as I write a paper list, I take a photo of it with my phone. Until COVID, I kept all lists on my phone, but then went back to paper when I didn't want to touch my phone in public.

Temperature fluctuations like that are difficult to deal with. Overheated one day and cold the next. Yuck!

I put my lists on my phone, including packing lists for various trips which I keep and copy for trips of a similar length and type. DH is a paper list maker and often loses them LOL. The advantage of a list is so things aren't forgotten, but for me the disadvantage is that once I write it down it is as if my mind purges the information and I can't recall it without the list (so recreating it would be very difficult).

Good luck with that meeting. Wine afterwards may be needed.

It was a great mini-trip and exactly the right length of time with the nice weather. That hotel really pleased us. Sitting on the lawn in the early evening, listening to music and watching young families with their children running around and rolling down the lawn was just precious.

On the thought of going through the whole house and purging stuff: That's what I had to do last year first to get it ready to sell, then for the final purging/packing. It was a bear to do and I felt like I should have been doing it on an ongoing basis 1-2 closets/cabinets at a time over the years so it would have been more manageable. But am I doing that now in Florida? No, of course not LOL.

And I had a Belgium waffle maker too! I think we bought it with some of our wedding funds in 1981. My younger daughter has it now after the house sale last year. She has nice memories of her Dad and I cooking waffles on weekend mornings or sometimes for dinner.