Fire, Fourth, Catch up....

 So on Saturday, June 30th, there was the "Lund Fire" that we were really seeing smoke from, and then on Monday afternoon another fire was started by Ely called the "Mosier Fire/ Range Fire`" and really that's as intense as the smoke got in these pictures, but it burned 8 power lines and that affected all the power in the valley. We were without power for about 18 hours, which seemed short after reports coming in at first that it could take days to get power restored. Naturally this happened while Cary was out of town, so the kids and I had no A/C, no water, no power, etc... Thankfully some of the men hooked up a generator to the well so we finally had some water about 4 hours after the power had been shut down. Brad and Cheryl, who live behind me, had a generator and they came and asked if I wanted to hook my fridge up so that I could feed the kids breakfast in the morning, so we had cold milk for breakfast, and I was able to hook up the toaster to make toast. The power was back on around 9:30 that morning. Yay!

 It was so dark that night and the moon was looking nice.

 The fourth of July is kind of big deal around here, and I usually take pictures of the events that happen. Well, the first event of the day was the Walk-a-Song Run early in the morning, and I walked out and took these pictures...

If you look closely enough, you can see two people running along the ridge, that's how high up they go. Anyway, that is the extent of the photos that I took. ☺ For whatever reason, business? laziness? I took a hiatus from my camera for almost two weeks. The fourth was fun with friends and family coming out. I got to visit with people I haven't seen for awhile. I may eventually do a blog post about the fourth and steal Janille and Sharon's pictures since I don't have any.