First, thank you to everyone who has sent kind words and said prayers for us about the fire.  It is so much appreciated!

I have since learned that two homes were lost yesterday.  Sadly, one of them did not have insurance.  I hope to learn more soon, and see if there is someone organizing help for them.

Just another reminded, of house important it is to have insurance!  My mother has property insurance, though it is inadequate, so when we take that over at some point, we intend to improve it.  Plus, we have our own content insurance.  If anything every happened, we are covered.

One thing I found encouraging when we were preparing for the possibility of evacuating.  We now know that, if need be, we could probably be out of the house with our bug out bags and the cats in less than 10 minutes.  There just isn’t a lot that we would need to take with us.  It’s all just stuff.  As long as we have our IDs, medications, and some clothing, plus food for that cats, we’re good.  Everything else is replaceable.  About the only thing we’d add to the list, if we had time, is the computer towers and laptops.

I went into town with my husband for a medical appointment.  We got home shortly before noon.  I had to wait until after 2 to go and pick up a parcel in the mail, and my younger daughter came to get some driving practice.  We were thinking of going to town to play come Pokemon Go after, but when we got to the post office, there was smoke, everywhere.  The fire station parking was full of vehicles from the volunteer firefighters still, but the fire trucks were gone.  I asked at the post office and was informed that there is another fire to the North of us.

Of course, the winds are coming from the North, today. :-(

It’s further away and doesn’t seem to be a risk to where we are, but we decided not to go into town.  We did drive out to see the fire area before coming home, though.

Here, you can see how the roads themselves can act as fire breaks.  This is 1 mile north and about 1 1/2 miles south of our home.

You can’t really see it in the above photo, but there is smoke in the distance, still.

In this area, the fire mostly followed the road, but in some places, when further in.

Every now and then, we’d see an opening like this, and smoke in the distance.  The fire is out, but still smoldering in places.

One of the burned out homes.  I honestly couldn’t see where the house had been.

It’s a good thing this area is rather marshy, and there are still ponds around as well, with how dry this winter has been.

Still smoking in the distance.

The next videos were taken after the above photo, and while we were on our way back home.  Probably about 4 -5 miles from our home, as the crow flies.

Now, if only that predicted rain would actually show up!

The Re-Farmer