We seem to have survived the solar eclipse yesterday and maybe fuel and hotel prices will get back to normal soon. I remember when Motel 6 got $6 for a room; it was $100 for a room at the Motel 6 in Roseburg over the weekend, and even more crazy further north. We had a good view of the eclipse here in the park; we got down to within about 1% of total eclipse, with just a tiny sliver of sun crescent left at 10:16 AM PDT.
Now the current concern is the smoke pall over the area from the series of lightning-sparked forest fires east of us in the North Umpqua River valley. Highway 138 is closed between mile marker 43 and 54 due to falling trees and other debris. There are water-dropping helicopters working structure protection along 138, and water dropping planes are scooping water out of Diamond Lake. The closest fire to the park is about 13 miles east of us, but logging operations over the years have left almost no contiguous forest between here and there for the fires to travel west, there is a network of logging roads in place that would give firefighters access, and our surface winds have been from the north and west so no embers coming this way. Here is the link to the fire information.
Monday, Aug. 28, at 1 p.m. is the monthly meeting of Timber Valley Jacks & Jills Activity Committee. 
A BIG THANK YOU:
Come to the Jacks and Jills Activities Planning meeting on Monday, Aug. 7 at 1 p.m. in the Clubhouse.