Colorado Wildfires

 For most of the summer, Colorado has been plagued with wildfires in the mountains and foothills.  The dry weather has not let up and the high temperatures helped fuel the fires.  The smoke in the metro Denver area has been problematic for anything that breathes and if any living being has an existing limitation in their breathing ability, the smoke has been a real problem.

Yesterday I heard that good friends of mine from my brewery days had to evacuate their home in Granby, Colorado.  The photos posted on Facebook and Twitter were truly frightening.  Today I heard that the Granby home was saved for my friends, but many others were not as lucky.  When will it end.  The weather is not helping, a good snow would surely be welcome right about now.  
I wish them all the best.

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Last night I watched great niece Charli play Volleyball.  
It was game 1 of the Regional Tournament.

The livestream camera was set up in a far corner of the gymnasium, 

we could not even see their girls serve. Ugh!

I had to keep my own score because there was no way I could read the scoreboard. 

I was texting Laila with scoring updates, she was watching the live stream as well.

And it is good that my great niece wears an ankle brace on her right ankle, the only way I could pick her out, the camera was not high definition and it was impossible to read jersey numbers. 

But yes, I watched it and it was very thrilling, coming down to the 5th set to decide the match.

I'm not sure yet if we can watch tonight, waiting to see if the host school has a live stream for us.

I really wish that the schools would see that Covid is here to stay for quite some time and work out a good plan for live streaming these sporting events.  When you limit each family to 4 tickets per athlete, that leaves a lot of family and friends out of the action.

Okay, off my soapbox. 

Really sweet to see two Johansen kids in the newspaper today as Students of the Week.

I miss these kids, a lot.