Taste Like Chicken Tuesday 9/8

US National Weather Service Phoenix Arizona
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Obviously, you've noticed all the hazy skies this morning. On this satellite image, all that thin, milky brown cloud is smoke from the numerous fires in California being transported south and east.
The thin line of clouds in northern AZ is a cold front which will sweep through the area this afternoon. Unfortunately, strong winds behind this front are picking up dust and mixing it with the smoke so conditions won't be getting any better later today. It may take a couple days for the weather pattern to shift enough to deflect the smoke away from our area.

Happy Star Trek Day. Love long and prosper.

Karen, thanks for the start. How was the gym? I saw before and after pictures of Denver's crazy 60° temp drop with snow. Glad that wasn’t here. We are back to 90° today.

Linda, I hope the smoke doesn’t come your way. I read that the fire near Fresno was started by a gender reveal party. 

Becky, I hope you and Kenneth are doing well.

Kathy, I like the pic in your avatar.

Liz, Denise I hope work went well today.

Today was a sucky day dealing with insurance issues, stomach pain from the eye medications and a long line at the post office with some dude who would not give me 6 feet until I gave him my patented evil eye. 

I hope your day went better than mine😒

Linda, did you paint the pictures? What does Micki's squeaky hedgehog look like? Arya has a green one. Wonder if it's the same. I'm surprised TJ's was so crowded on a holiday. How were your hot dogs and Grandma Brown's beans? I can see how you would be anxious to get into the fall spirit with the summer you've had. Will there be a point at which Micki won't have to have shots any more? Sorry about the smoke you're getting. I hope it's staying high in the atmosphere so it's not causing breathing difficulties for anyone there. Interesting on flu shot appointments but that's probably a good idea. I hope they will be on time and you can get in and out quickly.

Do you get BBQ chicken when you go to Meyer's, Becky? If you got a large order, you could bring the extra home and freeze it for days like yesterday when you want some. So, the cold front that brought the temps down into the 30s in Denver is just going to bring you into the 80s? I saw that Denver hit 101 on Sunday, so I guess you're lucky you aren't ending up in the deep freeze. Wouldn't that be weird?!? I can understand how Kenneth still has work dreams after all these years if he's still in touch with so many people on a regular basis that he used to work with. By "state representative" do you mean someone who represents you in Austin? I thought those would have to come from the Election Commission in your county. I was going to ask if it was a Democrat or Republican and it's very strange that he's the latter. Trump better not find out. Are you going to request one from your local government agency that is not politically affiliated? We sent our applications in a month ago and don't know when we should receive our ballots because I can't find out when the ballots will be mailed out here.

Kathy, I think the Carolinas are already getting some clouds from the tropical system and I think it only has about a 30% chance of development, so there's not much going on with it yet and may not be. I'm more concerned with Paulette, which is already a tropical storm. It appears to be heading for the Carolinas or VA next week. There is also TS Rene but it doesn't appear that will cause problems except for shipping lanes. They are coming across the Atlantic fast and furious now, however. I wonder if we'll be into Greek letters this year. I know you'll be on your guard. Did the thunder materialize into anything there? We are sunny and a little warmer than we were yesterday, in the upper 80s, which I know is comfortable for you. We didn't see much of that moon because of cloud cover, so I'm glad you took the photo.

It's Star Trek Day, Chele? I had no idea.🖖 Sorry about your day. Hope tomorrow will be as good as today was bad. Did the guy at the PO take the hint or was he clueless like a lot of them around here? When is Iggy's pacemaker going in? The gym was good. I don't think I was any closer than about 15 feet to anyone and there weren't a lot of people there anyway. 

Not much going on here. I did the usual Monday cleaning before I went to the gym then stopped at Joann on the way home, which is about 5 doors down from the gym. My last swim will probably be tomorrow because the lake is down about a foot and a half since I swam yesterday. Time to pull out the biking shorts and pump up the tires on the downstairs bike. I have to take down the fair display tomorrow afternoon and pick up the CSA order on the way home. I think we got everything square on where we will store all the new stuff. There is zero storage space. If I have time, I plan to go through a drawer in the vertical file cabinet to see if we can get it cleaned out to make a little room. 

Waving to our working gals.