Wool Pears And someone stop the Wind

Just listed in my Etsy Shop

Wool Pears made out of a vintage wool blanket

With leaves from a vintage Army wool blanket

Well what a Day

As I sit and watch out my window at the trees whipping about

I find myself thinking of my Dad

He never did like windy days and for some reason

The older I get I find myself not liking them either

I had to make a much dreaded trip in that wind today 

to visit my CPA Gee am I ever glad that is behind me

With these conditions the Fire danger is horrible

So I came home and passed some pump trucks

worrying about which direction they had been to since
they were only a few blocks from home.

We have been through one of Southern Oklahoma's Wildfires 

I wish I still had the pictures

That was March 1 2006, we saved our home

Many lost theirs, the National forestry folks camped out in

our tiny town at the little fire department we had

Our land was charred right up to the edge of our home on all sides!

It was scary to watch as a huge plane overhead was dumping on the

fires to try to get them under control

Helicopters with buckets and, oilfield tankers sitting along the highway 

to fill the pump trucks up

thousands of acres were burnt

The highway patrol kept telling us to evacuate

all of the fire trucks were fighting actual structure fires

That night it looked like a war zone there were spots everywhere

from hot spots still burning down

Animals walking freely about from people cutting fences

to save cattle and horses

And we had more people driving through just to see the

devastation, something I never want to see again

Ok enough of me remembering a bad time

I am working frantically trying to catch up on my orders

Have a great evening

Brenda