duck-shaped pain

The forest fires down near Gateway are still raging, so the entire valley is still blanketed in smoke and haze. You can barely see anything, let alone the Bookcliffs to the north and Grand Mesa to the east. At least ashes aren't falling from the sky like they were the other day.

The humidity here was so low yesterday (3 percent) that it hurt to go outside. If you tried to go out, every drop of moisture in your body would be sucked out by the air. Your eyeballs would dry up and your skin would flake off.