Wind and Fire

 

Today we had some excitement.  This is the fire season, with everything so dry.  Well, a fire started somewhere near or on our property.  It is very windy here and the fire ended up coming very close to the houses and burned most of our property.  Benedict and Sena and the mothers and children were out getting containers of water to keep the fire from coming too close to the houses. 

You could see the big flames and very black smoke.  Everything looks terrible, from my perspective.  However, there were areas of the property that we were going to have to pay someone to "slash", i.e. cut the long grasses.  So I guess we saved some money.  Of course, once the rains come everything will be green and grow back fine.  The fire didn't hurt the large vegetable garden or any of the flowers and landscaping around the houses.  Instead of having a day of rest, Benedict got to be a fire fighter.