I'm Elizabeth Reese.

I'm Marjorie Perman.

This is Best to the Nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

You're not really flying anywhere in the Twin Cities right now, though.

As we're recording this, Marjorie, we've had the worst air quality in the country, in Minnesota,

and then particularly in the Twin Cities.

I mean, we've gone through this before, but it's really felt bad the last couple of days.

Yesterday morning started out clear and crisp and gorgeous.

And then by the end of the day, you couldn't even go outside.

There's so much smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

That's so strange to me.

Yeah. Like that's such a weird.

I cut that a little bit in Arizona because obviously we had some fires there.

The strangest thing, though, I ever experienced with forest fires was I was driving up to a

shoot in a little mountain town in Arizona.

And as I was driving up and sort of in the more rural part of Arizona, I could see the

scorched earth.

Wow.

And that was very weird. I mean,

it was very weird to see that. But the air quality, that's, that's just scary in a lot of ways,

because it's so uncomfortable. And you also know it's just so bad for you. There's no getting around it.

I know. And there's nothing you can do. I mean, it's just sitting there. You know, we have air purifiers

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