Yesterday Chet and I had a great day riding our bikes, having a picnic at Discovery park then going for a motorcycle ride. The air was fresh and healthy. The sunset was beautiful as you can see from the picture I took at 8pm. Around 9 pm, however things began to change. First we began to smell a faint camp like fire aroma, and thought out neighbors lit an evening fire, again. Quickly the smell became strong and choky (if that’s even a word), my throat got soar, and I felt nauseated. I quickly closed all the windows and thought it must be from all the fireworks I saw and heard going off in West Seattle/ Alki Beach area. But it seems that’s not entirely so. Upon researching this morning I found out that smoke from Eastern WA. wildfires blew into Puget Sound area amid rare windstorm. That makes sense. Yesterday there was a windstorm, and on our motorcycle ride we saw lots of fallen branches on the road through Discovery Park.

It’s going to be tricky for the next couple days as temperatures are suppose to be in the high 80’s around here and only a good air purifier will help. We have two, purchased on Amazon, Levoit brand, that work great. As soon as I step out of our bedroom (where we have one air purifier going now since last night) the air gets thick and smoky. We’ll have to move them around today to filter out the smoke. Keep safe out there, close your windows, purify the inside air, stay inside until this passes, which I pray it will be soon.

God Bless:)

P.S. On Facebook I will update you with more pictures taken throughout the day.