CLEANER AIR

We had a pretty nice day here in the Bitterroot.  The wind blew away some of the smoke and we had some pretty good visibility.  I even went for a pretty long walk this morning.  Hope we have some more days like this one or even better ones.  We also have a herd of elk hanging around our place so have had to fix the fences a couple of times.  Sure hope they move to another area. 

Have to have a puppy picture.

The rabbit brush has done well this year.  Maybe they do better in a drought.

This is the best visibility we have had in weeks.

SMOKE UPDATE

We had a bit of break in the smoke for two days as we had a north wind, but today the smoke is back in full force.  To say the least, we are getting really tired of this. 

Puppy is doing good.  I think we both forgot how much time you have to spend with a young pup.  Of course ours is a house dog so you have to be really on top of things to prevent accidents.  And we have a had a few, but for the most part it is not doing too bad.  Catmay is finally starting to accept him.  The first thing she did was establish her dominance.  Slapped him around a little bit. 

The setting sun last night when you could actually see some of the mountains on the west side of the valley.  

Zeph likes to lay on anything of Connie's anywhere.

The smoke today down in the meadow.

The training has begun.

Couch potato dog and cat.  This is as close as they get.