campfires and prairie dogs

This morning I learned that despite the fact that the air quality website said the air was fine, and it looked like the smoke had cleared, the great outdoors smelled like an enormous campfire until about 11 am. Then my worst problem was that my house pressurizer air cleaner smelled like a a campfire, leading to the discovery that the secret hepa filter that can only be purchased from AllerMed is a Glasfloss Puracell II mini-pleat 90% efficiency 12x24x4" filter, and you should theoretically be able to get one of those someplace else.

In other news, there's a book that's probably been out for at least a year by now all about the language of prairie dogs. Their chirps have sections for what kind of beastie they're looking at (coyote, hawk, person, cow, ferret (even though they'd never seen ferrets before)) and also important details like size, and coat color in animals or shirt color in people. So rodent chatter is actually more informative than anything you can find in People magazine, in that they cover style and what's most likely to kill you.