We got off pretty good this evening except for someone who did a little late night burning around midnight.
5:00 PM: No smoke. Sunny, 77 degrees, a beautiful day.
6:40 PM: Faint wood smoke for a few minutes then it was gone.
8:00 PM: No smoke.
I went out this evening and found two homes burning on Beam Ave. One was on the North St. Paul side and further down Beam there was a huge cloud of smoke in the middle of the street. I do not know if the burner was on the Maplewood or North St. Paul side. The smoke smelled like wood and garbage. But it could have been from some liquid leaked from a garbage truck as this is trash collection day in the neighborhood. There was also some faint wood smoke along the southern edge of Silver Lake around Charles St. Almost every time I go down by Silver Lake in the evenings there is wood smoke in the air.
9:00 PM: No smoke where we are.
10:00 PM: No smoke.
11:00 PM: No smoke.
Midnight: Someone burned a little something for a few minutes during this time. The windows were left open. Mistake. Every time we leave the windows open, which is not often because the air in the city of North St. Paul, MN, is so polluted, someone burns.
We are doing better this year because of two very smoky burners that were foreclosed. One was evicted June or July of last year and the other was evicted earlier this year I believe. The first one had one or two very smoky bonfires a week all summer long and the other burned from time to time. When the first home was foreclosed they left a pile of burnt wood in their firepit. Goodby and good riddance!