Good morning, campers...

Members of a freestyle Motocross group Red Bull perform during a soccer match break in Oberhausen, Germany. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)(August 10, 2008)

Today's picture might as well be called your Monday Morning Jump Shot. Yes, indeedie, hitch up your garters, sand down the old face or put on the new and hang onto your hats because we are jumping off to a new week. Just don't lose contact with that seat or you may end up splatted all over a building somewhere, and that might leave a mark.

In the weather department, although we start the week off with inauspicious temperatures in the low 80's by weeks end we can once more commence cooking burgers on the sidewalks of Spokane as temperatures by next weekend will come close to the century mark. Yes, it's the lovely hot days of August, and for once the weather promises to stay right where one would expect it to be...HOT and more hot.

So make your best jump today, making certain you can find a convenient tree or air conditioned place to hide by week's end.

Dave

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