No Smoking

We’ve had some rain over the last couple of days, which definitely helped clear out the smoke smell from the fire – at least as long as the wind isn’t coming towards us from the burned houses. With the air outside clearing up, we were finally able to open up our windows and air out the house. There’s still a faint smell upstairs, but it’s barely noticeable, and it doesn’t irritate my eyes or throat any more. It just smells like someone smoked a cigarette up there. I’m sure in a day or two, even that faint smell will be just a memory.

The neighbors have been back to salvage what they can from their homes. Our immediate neighbors didn’t have too much damage other than smoke, so they came out of it pretty well, other than having to find a new place to live. I’m afraid the residents of the other two houses didn’t fare so well. I don’t think there was much left for them to sort through.

I was happy to see one of the hummingbirds back at our feeder yesterday – they had been nesting in the trees that were burned. We’ve had three regulars – two males and a female, but since the fire, I’ve only seen the female. I hope the others escaped the fire as well.

For your Friday eye candy enjoyment, I’ll leave you with a photo of my Red Robin Tomato plant, still wet from the rain. This wee little plant is only about 6″ high, but it had about 20 cherry tomatoes on it (I picked a few ripe ones before I thought to take the photo.) It’s practically just a mound of cherry tomatoes, with a few leaves interspersed.

Hope you all have a great weekend!