[AT] was Johnson County Indiana tractorshow/NOW SMOKE

[charlie hill]

Sounds like you had fun despite the smoke Phil.  The wind shifted here today 
about noon and it's been ok since then.  I've started to cough a bit in the 
last half our or so.  I guess it is starting to come back in for the night. 
The area where I live has really been lucky.   The county to south and the 
one to the east probably have it twice as bad as we do.  I don't know how 
they stand it.  It was bad enough here yesterday that ash was falling on the 
cars at a new car dealership about 2 miles as the crow flies from me.  The 
fire is 40 miles away.

Charlie

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The wife and I and our two graddaughters have been on vacation in NM, AZ, UT
and CO since a week ago Saturday. Right now we are in Taos, NM on our way 
home.
We have been in and out of the smoke from various forest fires since aweek 
ago
Sunday when we arrived in Albuquerque. There, it was mixed with dust and the
wind was so high that the aerial tram to the top of Sandia Peak was shut 
down.
We are in the smoke again here at Taos. It is so thick that the clouds have
turned a wierd shade of brown. The edges of the clouds have a kind of 
rainbow
effect. It would be ok except the smoke is getting to me and aggravating my
sinuses, causing a cough that I can't shake. We're off to Lubbock tomorrow,
and should be home Saturday afternoon.
This trip has been a pleasure, except for the smoke and the girls have had a 
ball.
Been to the Buddy Holly museum in Lubbock, washed out in Albuquerque with 
the tram,
visited Page, AZ for the Glen Canyon dam and a float tip down the Colorado 
river,
then on to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then stayed 2 nights in 
Payson, AZ
to see the Mogollon Rim, with a stop at Sunset Crater volcano, then on to 
see
the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest, Canyon De Chelly and Monument 
Valley,
visited Four Corners, then on to Colorado for Mesa Verde where the girls 
also
saw Mule Deer, Elk and wild mustangs. From there it was on to Durango for a 
ride
on the narrow guage RR, then to Taos where we are now. Tomorrow it's back to
Lubbock and then home. I'll be needing another week to recover!

Hope the smoke back east gets better, guys.

Phil

SNIP

>I know it's not right to complain but there's no other way to say it:  I am
>tired of the heat, humidity, no rain, and to top it off, this damned smoke!

Al

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