We need some cowboy music to go with that statement. We’re already into another paddling season. The lakes have been open for quite a while, the canoe yard actually got raked before the canoes came out of winter storage and there are warblers flitting about the trees. People will be arriving in droves soon. It’ll be interesting to see how the early ice out and warmer weather affects the forest and the fish.

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Robin Nolan Anderson shared this great shot of Wade in one of his HJO shirts. He’s at work in Eastern Washington.
Dave and I have kicked around the idea of a T-shirt photo contest. It would be hard to top this one!
Robin grew up at Hungry Jack Outfitters, when it was Sunset Point Cabins. She was lucky enough to help build the cabins with her parents Harry and Margaret.

Finally! We can do pictures again. Fall color is starting and it looks like next week should be sunny and warmer. That’ll get those leaves peaking.

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Overnight we had frost and freeze warnings so water was drained from most of our buildings. Actual temps here were in the upper 30′s though there was some frost on the shower house roof. Last night there were a few snow flakes hitting the window but none of them were able to co-habit on the ground.

The cool weather will help slow the Pagami fire and give fire crews a chance to do their work.

We’re not experiencing any smoke, other than from our woodstove, so things are rolling along as usual for late September. People are going into the BWCA North and East of the Trail and cabin guests are cozy and warm at night and getting out during the day.

We’ve been getting emails and calls from guests and friends all over as they hear about the fire. Several people have emailed from Chicago about the smoke. My brother lives in Wenatchee WA, where fires are a regular part of life suggested that the smoke may be better than the smell of Gary, Indiana for those Chi-town folks.

For information on the Pagami Fire you can look at these sites:

The official website http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2534

Boreal.org has local news links and photos from around the region.

http://www.boreal.org/

WTIP radio offers links to news reports and live streaming if you want to listen to what’s going on – and some really good tunes too!

http://www.wtip.org/

We’ll keep struggling with the photo part of this deal. sorry to be such a luddite but we do live in the woods for a reason

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I need to apologize for my total lack of posts this summer. We were having issues with the wordpress program and needed to update. After the update I found myself clueless as to how to make the whole thing work. To be honest techno issues are pretty low on my list so- no posts this summer.

The Pagami Fire has re- prioritized our day in many ways including needing to get some info out to our firends and guests.

So we’re back in the cyber saddle again
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