Dog Days of Summer

I told you there would be more about the smoke. What a difference a day makes; this is from August 1st.

And this is the next day.

Luckily we had this lovely pool to lounge around in and forget about the smoke. (My sister's family were camping, and we were minding Ellie. They made sure we had use of the pool while they were away - lucky us! And the smoke. I don't mean to be flippant. So many people, thousands and thousands of them were tossed out of their homes for most of the summer; homes burned down; lives were lost. It was a terrible summer. And aside from the smoke we were mostly unaffected.)

David did a summer camp in programming. Funny this assessment. He never gets an assessment like this at school.