Fire on the mountain

The threat of forest fire is always present in the hot and dry summers, but this year the fires came too close to Ketchum, and Katherine decided that we needed to get Huxley out of the smoke. The first night - Wednesday night - we spent in Twin Falls. There Katherine investigated cabinet possibilities from Home Depot. Later in the day, we thought it would be more fun to spend a few days in Stanley, so we returned to Ketchum and made plans to spend the weekend at a cabin in Stanley. Then we heard that the smoke was bad in Stanley too, so we were not sure what to do. Some friends had relocated to Boise and some said the smoke was heavy there and others said it was not that bad. So, we went back and forth about where Huxley would be safe from the smoke.

Finally, we decided that at least in Boise we would have an air conditioned room, so we loaded Katherine's car and drove to Boise. The pictures here were taken on the drive south on Thursday night.