The asshole frequent burner who burned Sunday and Monday was burning again this evening. This stupid city allows burning every day. Somebody is always burning. That's why this city is a horrible place to live. But that wasn't the worst of things tonight. We didn't get much wood smoke, but we got a heavy dose of some sort of chemical in the air as we were preparing for bed.
4:35 PM: No smoke where we are. I saw smoke rising from the asshole frequent burner's yard on the way home. I can't smell his smoke. But he always burns wood. Not to cook. Not to have a bonfire. He just burns to produce huge clouds of smoke and burn waste. He also likes to burn grass. 84 degrees, sunny, and beautiful at this time.
4:45 PM: Very faint wood smoke at this time. The smoke has the characteristic smell of whatever the asshole frequent burner burns. The wind shifted and is bringing some of the smoke down here.
5:00 PM: A very faint wood smoke is in the air at this time.
6:00 PM: No smoke.
8:00 PM: No smoke.
I went out at this time over by Silver Lake looking for wood smoke. You can always find wood smoke near Silver Lake after dark. I found a house on the western side of Lake Blvd. near Swan Ave. that was having a very smoky bonfire. The smoke extended up to Lake & Poplar, very near city council member Bob Bruton's house where the smoke was very heavy. Bob Bruton supports recreational burning and the smoke it produces. I hope the smoke made it up to his house and I hope he had his windows open to breathe it. This is the second evening that a house on Lake Blvd. was burning and producing heavy smoke. This isn't the first smoky recreational fire the house that was burning tonight has had. They bought the house in 2010 and are adding to the wood smoke pollution in the area.
9:15 PM: No smoke where we are, but the air is not fresh. There is some sort of pollutant in the air at this time.
10:00 PM: Air is not fresh. 70 degrees.
10:35 PM: A heavy chemical smell is in the air at this time. The air reeks! You cannot breathe this air! I don't know what it is. It smells like shoe polish or some sort of industrial solvent. Close the windows!
10:55 PM: The heavy chemical smell remains in the air. No chance of opening the windows before bed tonight. I hate this city.
11:50 PM: A light chemical smell continues. I checked the air on the way back to bed. I have no idea what toxic substance is in our air tonight.