Keep on the Sunny Side

 

This Land... the West...with its big blue sky, the sun so friendly, the clouds so close, the air so clear and breathable....is like the little girl in the poem: "when she was good, she was very good, but when she was bad she was horrid."
That year we would watch for the smoke to roll in and spoil a nice day. Would it stay a day, a week, a month? 

 

It looks like fog but a whiff of it spoils the charming effect. Poor land... it's not always this area that is on fire. That year there was a lot of smoke coming down from B.C. and up from California, too. We have since learned the difference in smoke smell from a local fire, or one far away.

But to look on the bright side: the electrician lent us some LED lights to clip on in various places in the house. It was a thrill to see lights in here at last. Did it help us make decisions? Well, yes and no... without wallboard up and ceiling, doors etc. it was still hard to imagine what the light would be like when it had painted surfaces to bounce off of. I remember this particular night and a discussion we had about placement... that corner that we thought the light would reach once white walls were in? Nope. But that's in hindsight...we did the best we could at guessing these things at the time, and the anticipation of lights was very exciting!

Another bright side-- we always looked forward to those days when the sun would shine and we could have Solar Nachos on the construction site!