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Oh, how beautiful!

The massive cold front in the middle of the country is pushing all of the smoke from the western fires to us on the coast.

I have to as it, it's spooky-cool.

It even compliments my plaid curtains.

I heard about fires in Oregon this morning and thought about you, Andy! I hope the smoke is all you get.

Those photos are indeed spooky cool!

There are a couple of worrisome conflagrations making there way to our neck of the woods, but there is a major river between us and them.

Also the winds are supposed to turn back to the east by tomorrow.

Is your town on the coast, Andy? My boys and I drove down the coast from Astoria to the dunes. So beautiful! It is more immediate to me now when I hear about places being endangered where I have recently traveled.

It was also a shock to me to hear about snow in Denver this week. We overnighted there on Aug 13.

My town is in the Willamette valley, north of Eugene.

I had read your travel diary when you posted it, and I would have loved to have met you in Florence.

It's only an hour away, and my brother has a vacation cabin in town.

Ah! Maybe another trip.

My boys and I were making up our itinerary as we went. We didn't know we would spend the night in Florence until we did it. Originally we had planned to camp at Crater Lake, but after we reached the ocean we felt it was a shame to run away from it immediately. It was the first time my younger son had ever seen the Pacific.

I completely understand, you could spend a lifetime exploring the PNW.

I was wandering around the aisles at Dollar Tree today when I rounded the corner and BAM:

That is definitely really early, but I'm not complaining!

Our forecast for today's 112 which would be our all-time historic high of 108 degrees.

This really makes me Jones for autumn.

Another find from Instagram.