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We live on a very quiet road up the mountains a way. I went on a couple of trips to collect firewood with my daughter, she did the driving on three of the runs, which was a first for her, especially with the truck under a heavy load. A lot of the time when the dog wants to get out for a drink or something we just let him pop out on his own and today when he saw us coming home in the truck he ran up the steps to say Hi and it made us both laugh to see the way he looked to his left for any cars coming before he ran out into the road. Just like he had learnt the highway code from Tufty the squirrel as a pup. I guess he is smarter than we thought, gaining knowledge of the world all on his own. I suppose we all do it, finding hints about the world from what we see.
The chimney smoke was making the house look ship like again, but this time steaming down the valley. In fine weather the heat of the sun on the mountains pulls the air up the valley and then it falls back down in the evening.

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