Cowboy 2 retreated to his bathtub hideaway last night while I played with my iPhone.



Monsoon continues with more heat and light than rain here, although patterns are very spotty. I worry about the mountain and dry lightning. Elsewhere, my college-student nephew, Will, not a couch potato, was evacuated July 13 from a wilderness writing program in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota after 17 lightning strikes ignited massive forest fires along the U.S.-Canadian border.