The South is really smokey. It is as hazy in Birmingham as it was when the steel mills were king, and the moon, about 15 degrees above the horizon from here, is as orange as a pumpkin. My chest, like everyone else�s, is as tight as a drum from breathing all the smoke trapped under this huge and persistent high pressure system.
The good news is that although rain is a distant memory, my ex-pond is only down about eight inches and is still running, even if slightly. I also advised the new owner a couple of months ago to go light on the fertilizer, just in case the dry weather kept up. So, the bloom is a shade lighter than I used to keep it, but I think that even if it doesn't rain soon and the water level keeps falling, there isn't much danger of O2 depletion.
lou
Ex-meister and faithful reader
