The view out our camper door last night!

I woke up at 6AM and started tucking things away in the camper and let Mr. FixIt sleep for another hour. I was puttering around in the kitchen when I heard his alarm go off so I went in to wish him good morning. We were up and dressed and started packing the last of the stuff in the back of the truck. The lawn is mowed. The beds are changed. The dishes are all done and put away. The trash is out. The mail is stopped. The former Mrs. FixIt is watching the cat and watering the plants. My WV daughter and her husband are going to mow the lawn. That part is all set.

I received a call from the developmental services where my brother lives. He’s having some health issues and they wanted to keep me apprised. Anything that goes wrong with him just breaks my heart and worries me to death. As I was driving and mulling things over (I do my best mulling while driving, you know) I started asking myself the question that pulls me out of the spiral that used to send me into full blown panic attack.

1: Is there anything at all you can do right now to change this situation?

If the answer is no, don’t use up the extra bandwidth on something you can do nothing about. If the answer is yes, then do that thing…in a timely, courageous, and caring manner.

We’ll have a meeting with his staff when we are there next week. Till then, they will keep me apprised if anything changes.

In the meantime….land’s sake! Are you all inundated with this terrible smoke from the fires in Canada??? As we drove through West Virginia, Ohio, and into Indiana yesterday, the air looked like a milky fog. We got to our campsite just before 5:00. I fixed some supper and we sat outside to eat. That’s when I looked at the Weather Channel and saw the “Unhealthy Air Quality” warning. I actually talked Mr. FixIt into coming inside so we stretched out in the air conditioning and watched videos of great auditions for some of the musical competition shows.

Traffic was pretty steady and always has too many trucks. I don’t know if you have ever pulled a camper, but when you’re going 60-65 in the middle lane and semis pass you on either side, at the same time, going 70-80…whoooo doggies. That is an experience I don’t necessarily care for. I’ll be glad when we get off I-70 and head further north. Historically, it’s been my experience that the traffic isn’t as crazy.

So, these are going to be really long days and fairly short nights where I have to regroup, I might be doing a lot more asking questions and a little less writing my lengthy missives to you. I wish I would have had Mr. FixIt take a video of the farmer we followed most of the way to town on our little two-lane blacktop….at fifteen miles per hour. It would have been a very LONG and boring piece of film-making punctuated with a couple of colorful epithets. But for today, I’ll leave you with this video of the air quality as we left West Virginia. I’m praying for the poor people who have to live near this and other wildfires.

Click here to see the video on my YouTube Channel.

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“And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

Romans 5:5 NLT

#Smoke, #Fires, #Hazy