I’d really like to write a post every day – for me…because I enjoy it and because it is nice to look back sometimes. I started this post on Sunday…on my birthday…but this and that and now it is Tuesday evening.

And although I don’t like or want a party or presents or fuss, I DO enjoy celebrating my birthday. I mean, a birthday, means another year of life. Maybe when I get to the “other” side, I will wonder why I wanted to hang on “here”, but here is what I know and so I am always grateful to be here another year.

This year…well, I am VERY grateful that it cooled in time for my birthday…

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Missoula MT
1230 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 2015

.DISCUSSION…Cool nights and breezy mild afternoons are the rule
this week as we continue to be affected by polar maritime cold
fronts while the higher latitides pattern starts to look more
like early fall. Temperatures will generally be near normal
through Thursday. Concerns for fires the next few days are from
lightning chances near the Canadian border to along the divide
Monday as well as winds in the afternoon for midweek through
Friday. A decent precipitation event for the Glacier Park area is
possible Friday with a stronger cold front. Morning temperatures
could also be quite chilly this weekend area-wide with patchy
frost possible.

However, it remained VERY smoky and between the smoke and the dust and the early dropping pine needles…my ears-nose-throat are complaining. And my eyes are puffy in the morning. And there is not much relief in sight. But it is cool and that, I am VERY grateful for!

I’m also grateful that I was able to spend my birthday with my best boys:

Smoky birthday morning. But a morning with Bear and Auggie and a cup of coffee on Beardog Point.

It WAS my birthday and it WAS a wonderful day!