The filters were under the wire shelves along with some of the other contents of the drawer I was sure I put them in. Pumpkin is a drawer digger.

Wish I could introduce Matilda & Gwyn, they're about the same age. G also has two piglets- one is new, as her first piglet died about a month ago. My friend posted an adorable vid of G giggling with the two of them cuddled to her neck, squeaking away.

Aw Pumpkin. So helpful.

Evacuation advisory for the west side of 80. At least the information is flowing pretty well, even if I don't like what it says.

Also aw stoner pig.

Are you on the east side, I hope? (I feel like if I were afraid evacuation were coming, I would pack the car in advance, just to be prepared, but that's me.)

So Buddy is coming along! I think he hated living in the shelter inside the pet store, but maybe he's getting lonely during the day, because he comes running right to me when I get home. And he's let me pick him up and poke him in various ways, when he just hissed at anyone who approached him in the shelter. So that's good! I had been worried about if I would ever be able to cut his nails, and it seems like I will.

Bay Area smoke report: air quality is noticeably worse in San Francisco. Being thirty miles south in Hayward pays off today. The air is thick and heavy and the sunlight is a weird orangey color. Reminds me of the LA smog before all the clean air efforts these last few decades.

Finally get home and my eyes are still itchy and watery. I know one person who is feeling lucky and is sitting in her house only five miles away from the Tubbs Fire; and another who lost her house but managed to get her disabled dad to Kaiser just in time to be evacuated.

Whee! Interesting times!

the sunlight is a weird orangey color

I hate that color. The light in Utah is that color frequently in the summer.

Yay, Buddy! Does he need a buddy?

G's pigs are named Annalise and Luna and the late-Via. G named all but Via- she had originally belonged to another neighbor girl who, when she heard G was begging for a guinea pig, offered hers since she really wasn't able to spend much time with her once she started school sports.

I hate fire season, and I don't even live in fire country anymore.

I'm east of one of the evacuation centers so I think I'm still okay. I do plan to pack up the car when I get home.

ETA although I just realized, like, minutes ago that I left my car east of 80 this morning. I hope that isn't going to be a problem.

Yay, Buddy! Does he need a buddy?

That seems pretty unlikely from the way he hissed at the spot where another cat had been in the shelter!