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Posted: Fri May 16th, 2008 12:49 am |
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I'll try to keep this story to a few chapters.....the funny part is towards the end.
I came home from the store this evening to find my road blocked by firemen -- not a good feeling at all. My road is a dead-end road and I live at the end. As I drove down the road (very fast I might add -- and with frost heaves (for those that don't know what that is, I ain't gonna explain) it was like ski moguls), I could see and smell the smoke. Finally (and when I say finally, it was probably 4 seconds, but seemed like forever) get within sight of my house, but the view was blocked by all the fire equipment and trucks -- tore out of my car, and found out that it was a brush fire behind my next door neighbor's house. By the time I got there, it was under control, and the firemen quickly put it out.
We're under high fire danger warnings because of drought, and the kids renting the house (he's in the Coast Guard) had put the ashes from the wood stove (he's from the south -- the rest of us are in sandals) out into the woods without fully checking them. From the shock in his face, I think he learned an old Maine trick -- check the ashes before tossing.
So, all was well, besides my animals being totally freaked out, and I'll definately be sleeping with the windows closed tonight -- I'm not a big fan of smelling smoke -- too many Culebra experiences with that.
But here is the funny part of the story -- my neighbor (who owns the house, but doesn't live there anymore) was at the scene, and we got talking about last summer when the loose pig had been running around his house. He commented that he once had been mowing the yard when a chicken showed up next to his leg (hey -- it's Maine, these things happen). His wife then piped in with the story about gardening one day when Bogart (yup folks, that's my little guy -- 100% Culebra sato) went running by with a chicken in his mouth (not something that happens in Maine often). Opps -- guess the training he got as a young pup from Dudley paid off. Chickens 0, Dogs 1. But I must say, I'm down right proud of Bogart.
I'm back to naked rain dances in the yard tonight, and my neighbors said they might join me.
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