September 6, 2025 

    Quite an interesting day! We started out in 2nd level smoke with the last few hummers of the season coming up!  Bing had a neat page today, it is National Hummingbird Day! Then we went shopping and King Soopers had a surprise for us. That will be at the bottom of this page.

There’s some humidity haze adding to the smoke. That’s why it looks thicker than just level 2 smoke.

As usual, the smoke isn’t a local problem, its coming from Washington, Idaho, and Canada. This comes from https://fire.airnow.gov/

This map lets us see the fires more easily. This is at https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;@-103.6,38.4,6.3z 

The King Soopers in Longmont, CO has changed all its price labels to electronic tags! We first saw this in a liquor strore, but never expected to see this in a supermarket. There are tens of thousands of these in the store. This lets headquarters instantly put things on sale and they can also instantly change the prices so you don’t get any (well, as many) surprises at checkout https://www.grocerydive.com/news/why-more-grocers-are-putting-electronic-shelf-labels-in-their-stores/642002/ .