Re: Fires

Glad you're ok!   Keep us posted!

On 11/17/08, holmesbm@usit.net <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:
>
> We have relatives in CA and always worry more about the pollutants than the
> fires.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 11/17/2008 11:03:38 AM
> > Subject: [CHAT] Fires
> >
> > Once again we are spending hours glued to the TV watching the fire
> > coverage.  We're not in any danger at my house; one of the big ones is
> > about 30 miles from here but we're not even getting smoke from it.  On
> > Saturday we were supposed to take DH's sisters out to a place where they
> > have this little tourist train excursion. We saw that several freeways
> > were closed near where they live but the closures weren't where we were
> > going, we'd be okay we thought. However we neglected to consider that
> > everyone on the freeways would be looking for alternate routes...what a
> > mess. We ended up driving north for miles out of our way - couldn't go
> > back, the roads were gridlocked - and making a huge loop to eat lunch
> > near our house, then drive the sisters back home. I bet we put 200 miles
> > on the car so we could have lunch 3 miles from our own house. But of
> > course that's nothing compared to what thousands of other folks are
> > going through with evacuations and their homes destroyed.
> > So no gardening for me this weekend, Saturday was wasted and Sunday we
> > took the horses out for a long ride. Very nice weather actually, we're
> > not getting the wind like they are in the canyons down south. If it
> > weren't for that I'd be enjoying the warmth.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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