St Regis, Montana - cleaning day

After possibly over-doing it yesterday, we elected to stay put - here being about 30 miles due east of the Idaho / Montana border (on I-90). The campground (RV Park) is quite picturesque.

The owner (or previous owner's) hobby was carving critters out of tree stumps. So we are "surrounded" by various bears and eagles. Although you can't tell from the photo, the brown lump in the RV on the dash is Suki - the cat (not a tree stump). He doesn't travel on the dash, but likes to sleep there when the sun is shining.

We used today for general housekeeping - laundry, vacuuming, washing floors. Because the RV spent most of its life in the Utah vicinity, we continue to find lots of fine dust in cracks and crannies. It will take a while to get it completely clean.

It was cool this a.m. - about 40 degrees, but got into the high 80's this afternoon. Needed the air conditioning while inside. This is our first stop at less than 3,000 feet in elevation since leaving Olympia, WA in late June. The altitude has been tough on Margaret's breathing since contracting her pneumonia. Hope the denser air will help.

The RV park hostess was sympathetic to Margaret's condition. She also had pneumonia earlier and said it took her forever to fully recover. After every "little" job, she had to rest. We're finding that with Margaret also. A nap is needed after each activity, no matter how seemingly insignificant or difficult. We will definitely need to pace ourselves to avoid any relapse.

We will push on tomorrow and should be in central Washington - but not sure where. But we will definitely be stopping frequently to avoid a recurrence of yesterday when Margaret was ready to kill me if I didn't stop!

Best wishes to everyone.
Wayne