Customs.....

 7:20 am - Wednesday - August 27th - LPG&RVR - 55° F, humidity 44%, wind 2 mph out of the southeast.....cloudy today with a forecast high of 83° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were hiking the 'Hellroaring Creek' trail in Yellowstone....

.....an 11 mile loop hike.  Once again we encountered no Grizzle bears, but did see some elk in the distance one time.

We were not up early on the second day of our four day weekend as one familiar with our 4 day weekend customs might assume, that is, if you were the assuming type.  There was a little cleanup from the night before resulting from windy conditions which caused a little chaos on the 'lido deck', but once order was restored we headed out for another 'out and back' walk for the second consecutive day, which used to be our custom on our 4 day weekends, back before my knee issues in late May. We managed to pick up the pace Tuesday making the round trip in 39 minutes and 53 seconds.....

.....which means we averaged just over 3 mph...a nice, noteworthy achievement....and my knee didn't 'click' or 'pop' the entire time.....

......there was just enough cloud cover to keep the temp down, and with a little breeze it was even more comfortable.  

As is our custom we go shopping once during our four day weekend, and Tuesday was the designated shopping day this time around.  We finally got our act together, and were in the Beetle around 12 pm heading for town.  There was no stop at ACE Hardware this week, but we hit Dollar Store, Grocery Outlet and Holiday Market filling our hatchback with another week's worth of groceries.

On our way out of town we made a stop at Rubio's Taqueria to buy some of their amazing street tacos, which we then, as is our custom when partaking in Rubio's street tacos, took them to the local park near the Modoc County Museum, which we toured last week.  We found an adequate, clean picnic table with shade, and the proceeded to consume those amazing tacos....

.....when they built the shelter for the 1904 Baldwin locomotive, they also remodeled the park adding new grass, picnic tables, and  a basketball court at one end.  It was another beautiful, slightly breezy, late August afternoon in Alturas.

We didn't get home until after 2:30 pm, and by the time we unloaded the spoils from our shopping foray it was well after 3 pm, and the clouds had begun to move into the Pitt River Valley once again.  The forecast promised lightning, thunder, wind and rain and we got them all.  The rain finally came around 6 pm, and it actually rained on and off well into the early morning hours Wednesday (today).  I believe we've had more precipitation this summer than the three previous summers combined, and this has certainly been a much more mild summer than the prior three for which we are most grateful.

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