It goes on, but is getting better

Another day after the fire...

Robert, Viki and Ed met and went up to our house
and I followed shortly thereafter. Only residents
are allowed up to the fire area, but if you have
a resident with you and an access pass you are
allowed to go into the area. I'm hoping these
restrictions will be dropped soon. But they
are there to try and avoid looting. Since
we have no power nor phone we have no way of
calling for help should we need it.

Ed and Robert worked all day on the Solar
system. Ed also loaned us a generator to
keep us going until the solar is functional.
That really helped because that gave us
running water.

Viki and I did more mundane things like
cleaning out the frig. I dumped the
contents into trash bags which Viki later
toted to the "near-by" dumpsters which
happen to be more than a mile down the
mountain along with the potable water and
the potties...better start early if you
have to go and hustle, it's a way to go.
Fortunately, we had ours in the house.
The frig was still cool and had no
smell;it was a very easy cleaning job.
I've yet to tackle the freezer. It was
still refrigerator cold...and it didn't
smell either. We had it on most of the
day and I'll tackle it tomorrow after I
make the jelly.

Viki also knocked all the apples off the
tree so the bears wouldn't destroy the
tree and she picked many of the pears
from the pear tree. She also picked
crab apples. The ones Robert picked
on the day we evacuated were still good
so between Viki and Robert I had enough
to make a good-size batch, maybe two.
I've cooked them up and left them
dripping overnight.

Julie, with her brother, arrived about
9:30 AM and Allison, Melissa, Michelle
Weiber and I were there to lend support.
It was really hard; Julie had been
working on her house and getting it
just so and now it's gone! The woods
in back of her house is decimated!
The bright side is that she is moving
into a rental in Boulder that she
has fallen in love with. I just hope
she doesn't decide that living in
Boulder is so much easier that she
decides not to rebuild and to stay
in Boulder.

Connie called this evening from
home, Wichita...she has golf ball
sized hail stones in her freezer and
they got two inches of rain in less
than two hours! Also they were under
tornado watch earlier. Fun..fire,
flood, tornado..our family has it all.