Tuesday

When I got the stomach illness last summer I was pretty much bed ridden the whole summer and lost 30 pounds doing so. Couldn't eat anything. After my doctor got it figured out and solved the issue I had lost a lot of upper body strength and conditioning. I was hoping to get better fast enough to get dropped off in town and hike back but I never felt like I regained the stamina to attempt it. I'm gonna try it before the end of the year so better start getting in shape again. Best time to do that is barely daylight before the sun hits. On Tuesday Jax and I took the side by side to the bottom of Hurrah and hiked up to the balance rock and back. I think I could have made it to the top but I didn't want to take a chance on not getting back before the sun hit.

The three fires, west, east, and south are mostly gone now but there is still some smoke drifting in on occasion.

When the dog groomer was out Teresa and I gave Jax a couple of haircuts. When she returned she has to cut his hair real short because we butchered it so badly he didn't look right.