The week's air quality

This was what the air looked like last Sunday when we got back into town. You can't see all the ash all over the parking lot from this shot. It's kind of washed out.

This is what it looked like on Monday morning. The wind was blowing everything beyond us out into the ocean. The rest of the week was somewhere in between these two as the winds died down.

This week is full already. I'm finding myself committed to lots of small things that are causing me to head in lots of directions, so this week is a busy one, and not sure how it will all play out. I'm trying to get my house in order in the midst of it all, as we have people staying at our house while we are gone for Thanksgiving. They are gracious and wouldn't care if the house was messy, but I like to have it clean (or at least cleaner than it is presently). Plus, I prefer coming home to a clean house after being gone. Oh, to have the days back when I hired a Biola student to clean twice a month! Maybe someday. Just feeling behind on lots of things when I'd been working to get ahead.

Ugh, not a promising way to start out a week devoted to being thankful! I promise, it's there under the griping. It'll come out this week, I think.