Yes, it was one long HOT summer! In addition to the record-breaking heat along the coastal ranges in Oregon, Washington, and into Canada, we saw temperatures in this Northern Idaho area I NEVER thought we would see again after moving away from the high desert of Southern California in 2006! The hottest temp was an afternoon high of 112 degrees (44.44 C) on June 30th. But, hot, hot days, too warm evenings, no rain so dusty and dry. Record heat, the hottest weather ever recorded in Idaho, and, according to the stories, only the beginning of the heat that will probably be the "new normal" from this point on. Seems that the same "high-pressure bubble" that causes the cold and snow of winter weather to almost completely bypass our region of the pacific northwest in winter causes record heat in our same region of the pacific northwest in the summer! Since my last post, mainly, we have just been living and trying to avoid getting Covid. Stacy and I got our vaccinations...
This Blog was started because it's so often just too difficult for us to stay in contact with everybody we want to! Almost everyone we know lives in different timezones, different areas, and has their different lives. Now everybody can come to one place to see what we're doing!

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Mike
Just kidding. Your place looks really great. Glad your safe and out of California.
Since I'm on your blog site I can ask a question. What happened to you guys this year? This is the first year that I heard from nobody---at all. Did I offend somebody unknowingly?
By the way my book is out next week. At least Volume 1 is. There are a total of ten volumes which will take another four months to get all ten printed.
I am going to do another piece of research and illustration for my friend David Clark of the submarine "Intelligent Whale" for a TV special next year.
Outside of this I am being lined up for a bunch of book signings and for some of this I'm not too happy about. Damn, I could use a break.
Take care kids and I'll talk to you laterp---WEill you talk to me?