Well, this week has been interesting and a bit unnerving. Our corner of Washington state seems to be on fire. Hubby went to a friend’s house to help him do some moving and packing because he is near one of the fires and at a level three (Go now!). He has decided to stay at his place because the fire seems to be going away from his direction thankfully. But we have a truck and trailer load of his things here just in case.

Same spot from Wednesday to Saturday. You couldn’t even see the river today!

Each morning when I get up, I check the fire updates and the weather. This morning the air quality was the worst I’ve seen so far this year.

Needless to say, I didn’t want to spend anymore time outside then I had too. So I was quick to get chores down (unfortunately the farm animals; chickens, rabbits, horses and barn cats..which will not come in the house) have to live with the smoke. Thankfully, they are smart enough not to be running around in it. The big dogs were brought in to the garage and Cody to the dog house with the small dogs. Then the house was full with Hope, Reba, Asher, Cami, Ditto, Maple, Dally, Willow, Firefly, Rocket and Crossette!

And of course, there are dog gates separating them all because the “teenagers” can’t play with the little puppies and they harass the adults to pieces!

So unfortunately, I didn’t get to do as much outdoor potty training with Winter’s pups this last week as I normally would because of the smoke and awful air quality. But they had fun inside none-the-less and utilized the litter boxes. Good thing for litter box training!