We drove out to pick Susannah up from her birthday sleepover this morning. She had had a great time there....I chatted with her friends Mom for a while and she was telling me that her husband was out helping her Father In Law because their land had been burning since yesterday!! The fire department had thought they had got it under control during the night, but early this morning a hot spot sparked it all back up again and it was burning again this morning...
All their farmland :(
She was telling me that three years ago they lost their home to a similar fire :( She now has quite a detached and nonchalant attitude toward it all - almost a 'what can you do'? attitude..... I guess she's right in some ways. It's still so frightening.
Driving Susannah out there yesterday we passed the fire department by Elk Island Park - there was a grass fire in the median - no doubt some idiot had thrown a cigarette end out of the car window. When will people learn????? If that grass fire had spread fast enough and jumped the road then Elk Island Park would have gone up - it's so dry out there!!!!
Anyway - hopefully the fire is under control and out for good now - and their lovely home overlooking the pond with it's geese, is safe!!
