Writing

 I have gained a lot of pleasure writing for you this time in some ways much more than most other things I have written. Why?

I think that the overcast of the last 6 month here where I live on the northern California coast is a part of it. Even when I went to Santa Barbara last week to visit my Daughter and her husband for a week I realized just how awful 6 months of overcast weather was for me in that I couldn't adjust to the sunlight on the beach and had to wear sunglasses indoors for 2 days until my eyes were okay. So, I have to spend more time driving inland where the sun is (usually within 10 to 20 miles from the Coast of Northern California now in Climate changes. The good news from all this is 99% of the time we have no smoke to speak of from the fires so it isn't helping people get Covid here where I live like it is people downwind of all the fires. It helped thousands of people in the news to get Covid last year so far this time and hundreds died from Covid partly caused by susceptibility to Covid from smoke. Also, because of the wetness every morning off the ocean we have had no fires near where I live on the coast like most years before. Even the Santa Cruz mountains haven't had many fires this year or if they happened they were more quickly put out. This is very good because when areas get burned off then often in the winters they create flash flooding and mud slides and then homes are destroyed and roads are often washed away in these flash floods and mud slides. Even the east coast is having to deal with flash flooding now from Tropical Storms and hurricanes and this might be a more normal feature for there too because of global warming there on the east coast as well as normal for California always during the Fall, winter and spring especially and sometimes occurs throughout out deserts during the summer desert monsoons that spread from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona to the California deserts too sometimes. Even though desert monsoons in California are more rare they happened some this year which also prevented more fires within 20 miles of the ocean all the way up and down the California coast. So, most fires were in the Sierras where places like Lake Tahoe saw humidity as low as 5% this summer.