While I know I should be appreciative of the fact that I am alive and healthy and the little things are the big things and good friends and family and meat on the table and all that bullshit, I'd instead like to take a moment and point out some of the ugliness I ran into today:
1) while driving my dog to the vet so they could collect a clean urine sample, I saw the world's dirtiest unicorn, hanging from the back of a trailer—it was so ugly I snapped a photo of it;
2) the photo of the world's dirtiest unicorn looks even filthier and grittier because the air in New Jersey today is quite ugly and smoggyy (due to Canadian wildfires)
3) while I was at the vet, waiting to pay for Lola's urine analysis, I heard some ugly, mournful wailing behind a door, which I surmised was a woman who just put her dog down . . . brutal to hear this, haunting—and made me remember this awful day;
4) and finally, an ugly ray of hope: I purchased something that looks ugly and has an ugly moniker, but despite the ugliness, achieves its purpose: the poetically named "Bike Trailer Hitch for Wagon Camping Rolling Cart Collapsible Wagon with 360° Swivel Joint & Shock Absorber, Quick-Release Clamps for Folding Wagons, Pet Carts & Garden Trailers" was an impulse Amazon purchase, a contraption I hoped would make hauling our beach wagon the five blocks to the beach quick and easy, and I hooked the thing up to my bike and our wagon today, and it works!
Today’s air quality is preposterous. It’s like the Industrial Revolution out here.
ReplyDeleteIt’s smoky, not smoggy, right?
ReplyDeleteYes, zdaughter said “it smells like a camp fire.”
ReplyDeleteSmoggy is an adjective used to describe air, weather, or an environment that is heavily polluted with a visible, often irritating mixture of smoke, chemical fumes, and fog. The term is a blend of the words "smoke" and "fog"
ReplyDeleteor so Google says-- and this is Jersey, there's definitely some humidity fog and chemical soup amidst this smoke-- we need rain to clear this out
ReplyDeleteWhuddeva yoo wanna cawl it, dis is awful wethuh.
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