[Sca-cooks] Re. Fire down below....

[Philippa Alderton]

Ah- a TEXAS barbecue :-)

--- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
> Oh, I don't know about that, Phlip....my Barony
> lived through a very
> similar situation in the summer of 2000.  The timber
> losses were
> appalling, and we lost a lot of houses/structures
> (although no loss of
> human life, thank god).  It was like Armageddon
> here, for months.....the
> fires would jump highways and interstates....fire
> crews everywhere and
> restricted travel, folks moved into
> shelters....there were days when the
> smoke was so intense you couldn't see across the
> street (very
> eery--reminded me of when Mount St. Helens blew),
> and it was months
> before you wanted to open a window.  Did *not* help
> that it was the Hot
> Middle of Summer.....We all lived through it, but
> were very, very
> lucky.....
> --Maire

Actually, I'm not taking your fires lightly- if you
reread what you'd snipped, I think you can see my
concern. But I'm sitting up here, and there's nothing
I can do to help, so rather than do the gloom, despair
and agony thing, if perhaps I can send you a bit of a
smile, to just break the tension for a moment, and
give you a momentary respite from your very real
worries, it's the best help I'm capable of sending
you.

It's the same thing I'm doing, aggravating poor Massa
Adamantius about the cattails- he knows I'm teasing
him, and teasing back is giving him a momentary break
from his very real difficulties.

Life, at times, is very difficult, and everyone has
their own ways of dealing with it. Mine is to try to
find the off-the-wall funny side, and keep on keeping
on.

Phlip

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