Don’t you just love it when you’re away for a couple of days and come home to a sight like this? On Saturday a relatively dry thunderstorm visited Northern California and set off 341 wildfires. Coming down Acton Grade on Sunday afternoon with another four miles (6.4 kilometers) to go before getting home I finally get to see the relationship of these two fires to where home is. At two o’clock this morning (Monday) I was awakened by the smell of smoke and looked out the window to see a red glow on the horizon to the north. I just hate when that happens. Starting around 8:30 the planes resumed their mission of dropping fire retardant. This time they broke out the big iron; I had never seen the large four-engine turboprops on a fire around here before. Currently the larger fire is around 400 acres, 160 hectares. Let’s hope it stays that way!Correction at 7:45 PM — There are now 831 wildfires.
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Happy 25th wedding anniversary to Tom and Karla!
Wow. Once again, we totally forgot our anniversary! At this time of year we have so much going on that we forget until maybe a week later. And it’s our 35th anniversary, not 25th. Thanks Pete, I’ll try to get ahold of Karla at Florence Lake and surprise her.
Well Happy Anniversary you two! Pete has all kinds of info stashed away, so mind your p's and q's. I knew it was a long time since I had toiled up that trail. No wonder I feel old.
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