Interesting day. I went for a swim in the morning, with the normal routine and including 10 more lengths of the pool with straight freestyle, for a total of 2250 yds. Finished in about 50 minutes. Later, I tried to put up the screen tent I got Ann for her birthday. It's a chore to do solo, impossible to do it without help when it's windy. Speaking of windy conditions, Ann went to the beach for the afternoon, so I hung out at home and updated my cycling mileage log. She called me later on and asked if I knew anything about the fire nearby. Nope. So I looked for more details and noticed that there was a lot of helicopter traffic by Battle Mountain, where there was white smoke coming off. I rode my scooter down to the park to get a better view of what was going on, and it was a little scary. You could mostly see smoke, but occasionally a fire would flare up. When it did, a helicopter came by and dumped fire retardant on it. I watched until it looked pretty well under control, then I came home and read. Ann got home safely, but it took a long time. I called Mom and let her know a little about my hiking trip, the fire scare, and the info that Laura was coming in for her birthday celebration. After dinner, we gathered up our camping gear and staged it to be put into the car in the morning. Then I went for a walk, again heading down by the park and around it, seeing fire crews with nightlights going up the mountain in a line to look for hot spots.
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