"Bye Bye Birdie"

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18. Thanks for your work this summer

and safe travels to you! And thank you for the departing photo and entertaining text. Perhaps, if you're back next summer, I'll find you in when I drop by sometime while out on a dayhike. I'll disguise myself as a squirrel.

On a side note, I wondered if you were familiar with the book "Fire Season -- Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout" by Philip Connors, published in 2011. I recently picked it up at the University of Arizona Bookstore where it was on a closeout table. I'd glanced at it at the time and it looked interesting (which is why I decided to buy it), though I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. But it made me think that you should write a book yourself about your lookout experiences, since you're such a good writer.

Cheers!

--Tom in Tucson