We could use a bit more rain right now. I'm getting tired of leaving work
smelling like a well used fireplace overdue for a good sweeping.
The rain would help contain/extinguish the fires and just as importantly
would take the ash and smoke out of the air.
Besides, another started up north that they can go play with. Out with the old, in with the new.
I did have to laugh this morning. A guy told me that his brother who lives back east said one of the theories of how this fire started was that a hiker got lost and started a signal fire which burned out of control. Sounds reasonable until you realize that where this one started would be more like camping in your backyard than wilderness. You could trip and fall and land in town.
I was working at Brookhardts Lumber in Woodland Park when the Hayman Fire was raging... wore face masks a lot of days.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick