It has been a very long day. I woke up puking sick, that is always fun. My husband got himself off to work and a few hours before he got off the highway between here and there was shut down for a fire. The back roads are goat trails with no signs or signs that have no relationship to any maps available. He tried anyway. He got lost, was running low on gas and had terrible cell phone reception.
A fire started about five miles down the road, and it is burning our way. It is right across the highway right now. The winds had been in our favor but are shifting. It is a very odd thing to sit here and calmly blog, knowing at any minute I may have to grab a couple things and go. My shiny, my guitar, my family. That simple... funny how short the list is. I am not thrilled with the idea of losing all the family heirlooms, my sailboat, my clothes for Pete's sake... but I am OK with it too. Getting the cows worries me, I THINK I could get them out... but, it depends on how much time I had.
The fire was burning toward us. Across the highway, and running southeast, we were southwest of it. Now the winds have shifted.
All the excitement had me in the right place at the right time to catch this moonrise shot, so... lemons, lemonade and all that!
There is a person on facebook who says the Sheriff's office is robocalling some residents about two or three miles from here telling them to evacuate. I cannot find anything about the fire on the Sheriff's facebook page, or anywhere in the news. So, I suppose I ought to get back out there and have another peep for myself... what a very, very odd night!
UPDATE: It is morning, and I am still sitting in my living room typing away! The fire is still burning but it is moving away from us this morning. THANK YOU to everyone for their well-wishes!
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