At least a bad vog day gives me an excuse to write another blog entry. It may be obvious that we must have some good days between the 'bad vog days', but overall it seems like what we do have are some days where the vog is minimal for several hours, and lots of days where its 'not too bad,' but ever present.

This morning its bad. Bad enough that I could even smell the sulfer when I first went outside (even when its bad, you can acclimate to it quickly and no longer smell it.) The air is hazy and thick. Unfortunately, we watered the farm yesterday. After over two weeks of drought, we had lost a couple young plants, and the farm really needed the water. However, now the plants are hydrated, and breathing sulfer, which creates sulferinc acid inside the cells; very bad...

We've all been having upper respitory problems. Tolver is making plans with some friends to start making a place to stay on the other side of the island for more extended periods of time. He has been having a lot of difficulty with the vog. Dad and I seem to be able to tolerate it more, but the cummulative effects are becoming more obvious. Visibly obvious when we can watch the Protea plants degrade over time. We are throwing away more than half of the flowers that we are harvesting. It looks like we will lose most of the Regal Mink Protea plants, as they flush with unsellable flowers, they are losing all of their leaves. Remove the flowers, and a coat hanger remains.

The drought is also an effect of the vog. The extra particulate matter in the atmosphere interferes with the normal weather patterns. We have seen no significant rain yet this month, and measured less than a half inch last month, even though we were getting rain, when we should normally see none, back in August. The light, unmeasurrable, misty, sprinkles that we do get can be so acidic that the percipitation actually has a drying effect on the ground, and our skin. That leads to the dust. Everything is dusty, gritty, dried out and cold. I'm so tired of being cold.

O yeah, now there is a Zeitgeist Addendum
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
That will leave you cold.
Oh yeah, and martial law in the United States
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8

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