I brought the camera along for the elk one last time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zovdoX8zeI
Got the girls up earlier than they wanted after dancing late last night... but I wanted one more ride before we headed home. Forgot the camera but we did some loping, took Thorn along and turned him loose, what a blast...
Got safely home and already looking forward to next year!
Had a nice birthday nap, then the girls said they would take us to dinner for my birthday... we were headed for Macayo's with Linz in the Jeep with us, Hilary and boyfriend not quite ready so were going to catch up... halfway down Patton Road got a call from Hilary, the neighbor's house is on fire! I said "Randy GO HOME" and he turned around without a question, as we passed the fire station the doors were going up, meanwhile I am telling Hilary to get out back and make sure the critters are not in the smoke... we beat the fire trucks back to our place, the animals are ok but the wind is blowing the smoke - and the ash and embers - RIGHT TOWARD OUR HOUSE! So we soon had 7 people on hoses watching for possible sparks to start fires in the dry weeds I haven't gotten to yet (and yes I HAVE been working on them, thank God, or it could have been worse) and the FD actually sent a brush truck into our yard with a bigger hose, Linz saw one place start to smoke and pointed it out to him, and he told us that as long as we saw even a wisp of smoke coming from the neighbor's, not to leave, as with this wind all it would take would be one little spark to start things up again... over two hours of this, but thank God everyone here is ok... we are especially thankful that this did not happen just a little later, because we had Thorn locked in a small pen since Jasmine does not know him and was picking at him, and had Hilary not been home to let him out quickly, I don't think he would have survived the smoke inhalation - I watched as we manned the hoses, and that pen was INVISIBLE for well over an hour...
A couple of people thought it was us... and a couple of people razzed me that they thought it was just my birthday cake {eyes rolling}. My Macayo's birthday dinner is status "pending" now...
(Although the neighbors lost their house, they and their dog got out ok. I have since talked to them and the insurance company is being good to them... tough times but they will be alright!)
3 comments:
Holy cow. What a birthday celebration! I'm always a little afraid that my candles will trigger a forest fire. Glad your neighbors got out safely with their dog.
Happy Birthday! But what a crazy one! That's something else!!
Loved the Mormon Lake pics, had to laugh seeing Clancy there, I knew he was up there! Very cool, all of you. Come to the Saddle Club gymkhana next Sat night!!!
Glad your place didn't burn down, that is one wild story!
sorry Mikey camping up north next weekend... one of these days i will get back into gymkhana though! Luna seems cut out to be an arena horse and since Wade won't take her to rope...
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