Over the last two years, I've become more involved as a project sponsor for some University of Idaho Engineering Capstone projects, and I'm very excited about their growth. Progress may be slow, but it's incremental, and we're approaching goals, which is always exciting!

The world we live in is congested with controversy; left-vs-right, masks-vs-maskless, us-vs-them. So many arguments, one thing that we don't need to argue about is that there are parts of the U.S. that don't have much access to water, and that there are parts of the U.S. that also face some real challenges with wildfire.

There are just too many cool things to research, and thank goodness for the students at the University of Idaho.

While most of North Idaho is seeing (and smelling) plenty of smoke, I'm looking back over a successful Capstone project and more to come...