More record highs with very little rain in September. Dropped some dead/dying trees and cut up for firewood. Cut up branches that had been piling up for a few years but were too dry to mulch and too small for firewood. Several large piles (refrigerator size) are under tarps and shall be burned when the fire bans are off.

M and I played a few golf games (a playing partner had a hole in one, his 3rd!) and an overnight trip to Penticton for a jazz concert but the venue (in operation for 25 years) closed down the day before. A solo 3 day motorbike camping trip to Mica Dam (140kms north of Revelstoke) and back through the west Kootenays and another camping trip with two friends who brought a truck and trailer – more like glamping as we had chairs, ice cooler, plates, glasses and other refinements. M and I helped our neighbor harvesting his grapes. He has a huge crop this year – we and others got about 1/3 done in two days which was pressed into 2,000 litres. Hard work. And the garden has been bountiful this year.