Since my last visit, the state has become engulfed in flames, my leg has healed greatly, and it's HOT.
That's right, currently Colorado has more than 8 major fires burning in the state, one of witch cropped up just a short distance from us yesterday.
There is almost no chance the flames will reach us, but smoke certainly has. It's not helping that the temperature has topped 100 all week (106 on Tuesday, tying a record from 1878). It's brutal, the smoke in the air takes me back to my youth, when you would take a deep breath of that southern California air, and feel that pain!
We will be taking an extended trip to the homeland for the next couple of weeks, and hopefully it will be enough time for the fires to be extinguished, for me to age another year, and hopefully to pull some riding time in California.
Image courtesy of the Daily Camera/MARK Leffingwell
I think my favorite part of the last couple of weeks was a TV interview with an evacuee, she was somewhere in the range of 75-90 years old, and proclaimed that the fire was horrible, but it's "all going to burn eventually". YAY! I'll leave you with that one....
