Month to date precip is ,87", 73% of 10-year average at this spot. Data Explorer would not load.  Dry month but shortening days bring low evap. and dew is on grass all morning.  Conditions are dry but not far from normal.  Lawn is green, forest foliage is green but leaves are falling.  Garden done except for raspberries (flowers full of bumblebees).  Grasshoppers abundant, turkeys coming in yard.  Jack Pine sawyer beetles not as loud or abundant as usual.  Mushrooms plentiful but less than usual.

Bear and Grouse hunters are afield

Post Labor Day tourism remains high as does home and road construction.  No weather impediments to outdoor work or harvests.

No fires reported.

Nearby stream low and clear, spring run not much more than a trickle.