**cough cough**

This is the sun setting this evening....

The sun looks like a red fireball in the sky because of all the smoke in the air.

When there is a forest fire in the area our skies fill with smoke.

The smoke is irritating to the eyes and the throat especially.

There is nothing that can really be done...... even the indoors begin to smell through the air vents and air conditioning.

It seems as if the forest fire is just down the street......

NOPE

It's coming hundreds of miles from here from a forest fire in either Arizona or Colorado.

But it's only May......usually by late June or July we'll have forest fires all around our state.

With the lack of enough rain...... the forests are a virtual tinder box.

**Sigh**