My wife and recent hot weather.

She has been at camp for nearly four weeks.

This late September calendar week has been better weather wise than any summer week for the last five summers.

Here in the mountains west winds give cloud or showers constantly.  Any summer humidity results in showers or storms with lightning or worse.  Then the clouds hang around too often as overcast dreariness.  Not so this last seven days. A storm off the coast continued to bring in that dreaded cooler CANADIAN air.

Except in this case the upper air (thus also the surface) was mild.

 AMEN AND AMEN   (brought to you by Psalms 41 and 89)

Rare but welcome mild air!

One of the mandatory upper level maps is the 850 mb.

Approximately 5000 feet above sea level the temperature seldom is 15C. We have had an exception for the last few days.  Here at camp mild air through a deep layer means pleasent afternoon temperature.

A string of days with clear sky.

When weather systems go stationary the sky may stay clear for days.

Open and close ( the camp)

Connect the water system, uncover a window, put in the dock. Then quickly do all of the above in reverse.

The task I am proud of is lifting the back of the woodshed six inches. A knowledgeable neighbor predicted collapse if nothing was done. Something was done over many days. In addition I reset large concrete pads.

The dock is now in two sections. Remaining is the effort to secure the grounded sections to the shore. Fall and winter water level is lowered.  We must balance winter low water with high spring water. Otherwise the river may carry the dock away!