Oh, joy! We're having high winds today, so someone down the road has decided it's the

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Being downwind from them would make it even better.

I was puzzled why we have "fire danger" alerts in late winter and early spring here, given there is not much dry wood around then.
Turns out...they burn the fields that time of year, in order to plant cotton.
and we do have wind now and again in the spring.

So on what should be nice pretty spring days, the smell of smoke hangs over the town for a few weeks, unless it is raining.

today...rain, luckily.