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[Alaskan]

@Alaskan
 are you close to those forest fires?

No... And there are two now....

However, these are much more emotional than the one last summer that was closer to me.... Because both of these fires have been eating up houses and animals.... It just kills me emotionally....

The bigger one up north of Anchorage is running along both sides of a highway, where LOTS of houses are.... It has almost gobbled up 8 thousand acres!

The one closer to me (but still far away) has eaten over one thousand acres, so not so much, ezcept it too is in a populated area, so has completely devouered homes... And so quickly that little to nothing has been saved!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I wish I could send you some rain. We've gotten about 3 inches in the last few days with another 6 or 7 coming in the next 48 hours.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Those forest fires are so scary. About 5 years ago, there was one in Colorado, in the mountains west of Fort Collins. It was a ways away, but at a higher elevation so we could see it from our house - especially at night.

 

[perchie.girl]

Those forest fires are so scary. About 5 years ago, there was one in Colorado, in the mountains west of Fort Collins. It was a ways away, but at a higher elevation so we could see it from our house - especially at night.

That one was scary too.... Here is a famous photo from it.... Those are elk




deb

 

[kikiruru]

 

Nice bluegill

So you're from Bama (deep south) and called it a bluegill (northern term). I'm from new england and called it a crappie (southern term), and now we need to wait for someone to call it a "brim"

Bama's right - a crappie is in the same family as bluegill, but they are not the same fish, and that's a bluegill. 

Beer can, I spent part of my childhood living in a small town on the St. Lawrence; I caught my share of bluegill, and yellow perch, too. I never went after bullheads, but some of my (male) classmates did - it seemed to be a sort of rite of passage.  Do I remember correctly, and you fish for bullheads at night?

I remember going swimming & floundering in the gulf at night back in the 70's with friends at romar beach (orange beach now) & ... then those 'jaws' movies came out

 

[Alaskan]

Deb... That photo! Wow!

 

[kikiruru]

Finally got caught up. I was very busy this weekend but not as busy as SCG. We did get the new roof on the chicken coop (despite DH's "helping") and after contacting 15 different handymen someone called me back and came in to do an estimate to get all of the things fixed in this house. DH made a crack to me about how many "stars" this guy had on his customer ratings, I told him he could take over the search any time he wanted too. He came and looked and was surprised the house is only a little over 5 years old. I would sue the builder just out of spite if I had money to throw away. Anyway, he is supposed to email me the estimate in a few days. Not looking forwards to the bill but I am looking forwards to having the problems fixed. Yesterday I went out and hiked up into the mountains to the west of us. I needed to get out of the house and do something fun.

Beautiful view

 

[kikiruru]

Fire is scary. I went through the citizens academy of the mobile fire & rescue a few years ago and they had a house burning and from the time they started the fire it was totally engulfed in a few minutes

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[Alaskan]

Diva... That chair is made out of wood.