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Double rainbow right now, too wet to get pictures! I stepped out but the wind is driving the rain right at me so no pics but a sunrise rainbow can't be bad!

This cold front should reach over that way soon, we were supposed to be in the 80s yesterday but it barely made it to 70 before the front blasted in.

My buddy, whom I do a lot activities with, was about 60 miles away camping and attending a car show with one of his antiques all weekend. It was a convoluted logistics situation and I offered to help but he didn't ask. Well yesterday was forecasting the rain coming in, he decided to break camp yesterday after the car show, he also made the poor decision of driving the antique back home to beat the rain and return to break camp. He has a teardrop a trailer that can't be pulled by the antique so he had to go back to bring the trailer home. Only the antique had a mechanical failure of unknown origin on his way home.

Not ten seconds after getting into my lounge-wear and sitting down to chill I get a rescue call from 30 miles out. It was blasting wind and rain at my place and I could see it might make it to his location, I had to gather my bad weather gear, get dressed and hit the road. He wanted me to bring him back to town so he could get the tow vehicle and go all the way back out to the camp, etc. He didn't even think about me towing the trailer with my 4Runner which can handle that little thing just fine. So I mentioned it could be done and save at lest 90 minutes of the waning daylight, that way I could grab his hitch from his house near me, get him and head to the camp and load up, get home before midnight. That's what we did. He didn't break stuff down before heading home so that took an hour.

The best part, once I crossed the county line, there was no rain until five minutes after I walked in the door back at my place!

So it's going to be a lot cooler and rainy for the next few days around here. It used to be that summer was essentially over, weather-wise, by August first. I'll take this over oppressive heat, though. Won't be long before it starts snowing in the mountains, hopefully.