We left this guy in charge at the property. No worries at all!!

Just returned from our 2 day trip. Perfect weather with temps near 80 degrees in the day and around 55 degrees at night. Bill broke off screws on loft ladder. Smoke from the Tripod fire stayed away until just before we left. Turns out that the T-storm that moved across the Property several days ago dropped .40" of rain. Total since late May is 4.62" of rain. When we arrived at property there was a small bat sleeping in our solar panel. We saw him fly out for the night at dusk. We heard Coyotes, Owls, and saw quite a few deer. All is well at homestead. We watched 2 episodes of Deadwood and watched Wild Bill Hickcock get gunned down, sad day in Deadwood! Headed out this morning to eat at Ourplace and arrived home at 1:30PM.

Heading over to property on Thursday, Aug 23 for a 2 day visit. It has been a very dry and hot summer with little rain. A large fire named the Tripod fire has 
been burning about 20 miles west of us for the past month and has grown to over 120,000 acres.
Today a severe T-storm moved directly over the Carter mtn complex. Here is the  warning:

Thunderstorms are continuing to generate in the northern Cascades near the tripod complex fires. Individual storms are tracking eastward from the fires with the largest storm about to emerge from the cascasdes into the Okanogan Valley west of the town of Tonasket. Shower and thunderstorm activity will continue through the evening for the areas near the tripod complex fires and the towns of Oroville...Tonasket...and Conconully. Expect cloud to ground lighting and gusty winds with some small hail in these thunderstorms.....

I hope that no lightning fires were started. We will see.