Quick Update, One Week Down, One To Go

The good news is we did get the rain and cool temps they forecasted, a high of 62df and rain most of the day and night.  What sweet relief, and the next day dawned bright, cool, and washed away the smoke, I think we could hear the firefighters cheering, but it only lasted a day or so:-(  The smoke came back, maybe worse than it was, the temps are climbing into the 90's yesterday and all weekend 96-98df!  

We haven't been fishing and most of the rivers are either closed or severely limited on when they can be fished.  Quite a summer.  We have been coasting along, doing errands in town, eating lunch out, Costco, etc.  We are getting a little burnt out, kind of a been there, done that kind of thing.  We're not anxious to go out hiking or exploring, the smoke is just too much.  So we have been taking care of little things here and there.

The smoke does make the sky light up

Tough to show how bad the smoke is, but this should give you an idea

Next week we leave for Oregon to get some cabinetry and a few other things taken care of.  And on the generator front, we still haven't been able to run it to be sure of the surging, but in the meantime I have been reading about a few others with the same problem and they had mentioned there are only 3 of these actuators in the entire country!  So I started calling around and found out Cummins in Yakima could order one and have it waiting for us when we got close on our way to OR.  So we'll run over next week when we stop in Kennewick.  $600 is a lot of money, but we need our generator especially with the heat and smoke.  So hopefully it will be one of those deals where after you get the spare part it will never surge again:-)

We are contemplating some big changes to our itinerary, more on that to come.