So Blessed!!
What a strange week. After putting Kerri to rest on Wednesday, Mother and I were headed into Shawnee on Friday to shop and going down our little country road we were stopped and asked to pull over.
A house, I guess a mobile home, was being brought down the road and we needed to pull over and wait. Thing is I know the road and there is a hair pen curve that there is no way it will take a few minutes to get through. I waited for a while and decided to go another way. I back tracked to my road, Pine Corner. As we were driving south on the road I saw a fire to the south. I could tell it was just over the hill to the south of the Demirosa, (less than a mile away). The wind was blowing to the north and that means we were in the, pardon the pun, line of fire. I called a friend who is in Tribbey fire department and she didn't know about it. I called 911 and they had just heard about it. I drove home and woke up Pat to tell him about it. He got dressed and got his guns together and put in the car. Mother and I got our stuff together, couldn't go without my cookbooks!!!! If the fire made it over the hill we would only have a few minutes to get out. I would have to leave the animals. Fire is the scariest thing to me.
I took a picture with my phone that showed it just over the hill to the south of us. After I took the picture the wind changed direction and started blowing to the south east. That would take the fire to the east of us.
Pat went to see where the fire was before he left for work. He came home and said it was contained and left for work.
I took water to the guys, my friends and neighbors, who were fighting the fire.
I was sitting in Bob's drive, my neighbor and builder. He came walking down the road where the fire very nearly burned his neighbors house, to the west. I know this is very hard to follow. My neighbor's to the south on my road are Bob to the east of the road and Chris to the west of the road. The fire was on the west side of the road, my side. For those of you who don't believe in God, I know he was there for us. Bob told me that the fire was just to Chris's house and the wind started blowing to the southeast which brought it in on it's self. He said that if it had gone straight it would have burned Chris's house and gone south for two days until it reached highway 9 ten miles to the north of me. It would have taken us out in the process. Thank Goodness, it all worked out perfectly. I can't think of anything other than a God deal.
My stress level is about as high as it can get for many reasons, some that I can't talk about. I must trust and believe that I will know when to take action.
I sure hope things settle down this next week. I could use some piece and quite. A little rain would be nice. The heat seems to have broken . I opened the windows and it is WONDERFUL!!!!
Happy note. Mother and I went to the store today, without having to worry about fires, on the way home there were goats on our country road. Makes me feel like things are right with the world.
Still no baby cows.
Have changed the name of Victoria to Gabby, she talks all the time and she just looks like a Gabby!!!
Forgive if this is alittle disjointed but like I said, a really hard week!!!!
A house, I guess a mobile home, was being brought down the road and we needed to pull over and wait. Thing is I know the road and there is a hair pen curve that there is no way it will take a few minutes to get through. I waited for a while and decided to go another way. I back tracked to my road, Pine Corner. As we were driving south on the road I saw a fire to the south. I could tell it was just over the hill to the south of the Demirosa, (less than a mile away). The wind was blowing to the north and that means we were in the, pardon the pun, line of fire. I called a friend who is in Tribbey fire department and she didn't know about it. I called 911 and they had just heard about it. I drove home and woke up Pat to tell him about it. He got dressed and got his guns together and put in the car. Mother and I got our stuff together, couldn't go without my cookbooks!!!! If the fire made it over the hill we would only have a few minutes to get out. I would have to leave the animals. Fire is the scariest thing to me.
I took a picture with my phone that showed it just over the hill to the south of us. After I took the picture the wind changed direction and started blowing to the south east. That would take the fire to the east of us.
Pat went to see where the fire was before he left for work. He came home and said it was contained and left for work.
I took water to the guys, my friends and neighbors, who were fighting the fire.
I was sitting in Bob's drive, my neighbor and builder. He came walking down the road where the fire very nearly burned his neighbors house, to the west. I know this is very hard to follow. My neighbor's to the south on my road are Bob to the east of the road and Chris to the west of the road. The fire was on the west side of the road, my side. For those of you who don't believe in God, I know he was there for us. Bob told me that the fire was just to Chris's house and the wind started blowing to the southeast which brought it in on it's self. He said that if it had gone straight it would have burned Chris's house and gone south for two days until it reached highway 9 ten miles to the north of me. It would have taken us out in the process. Thank Goodness, it all worked out perfectly. I can't think of anything other than a God deal.
My stress level is about as high as it can get for many reasons, some that I can't talk about. I must trust and believe that I will know when to take action.
I sure hope things settle down this next week. I could use some piece and quite. A little rain would be nice. The heat seems to have broken . I opened the windows and it is WONDERFUL!!!!
Happy note. Mother and I went to the store today, without having to worry about fires, on the way home there were goats on our country road. Makes me feel like things are right with the world.
Still no baby cows.
Have changed the name of Victoria to Gabby, she talks all the time and she just looks like a Gabby!!! Forgive if this is alittle disjointed but like I said, a really hard week!!!!
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