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I'm in the lie-berry on their computer because I'm not going to be on-line for a looooong time. We are fine as is the Lion's Paw which was/is in the garage. The house will take several months to be put straight. I always told my wife that I wished I could chain saw the place in half because it was too big for the two of us. So, it's only temporary but we have half of a house to use. We're sleeping in it and going out to eat. One electric outlet works and we have the place strung with line-cords. The well is pumping; the oil burner works and the fridge works. We hauled the contents of a crammed full 6' chest freezer to a friends empty freezer, a few town over.
Investigators say it was electrical & rain associated. I say it was spontanious combustion but who am I?
Victor almost got his way with the image he posted because I am a "heritic"
M&T:more betterer than "a New Yorker", I was born on BROOKLYN and youse can't get no tougher den dat!
O.K. so here's how it went: I was at my desk Sunday @7:30 P.M. and Pat was seated on the couch in the library doing her NYT crossword puzzle and glanced over my shoulder at the 19the c. 4' octagon stained glass window we "HAD" on the rosewood wall
She said, "I see flames flickering beyond the window".
I ran out the side door into a sheet of flames while I called 911 for the VFD as she lugged the 2 fire extinguishers to me and then ran around the back to wheel the hose reel to me and hooked it to the tap.
While I fought the fire, she led our dog to the car and then drove the car into the field away from the house to keep the hound safe and clear the area for the fire trucks.
Back into the house she went from the safe side and emerged with the most importand things. Her make-up case in one hand
the household file in the other, my pills under one arm and a loaf of her fresh baked blueberry bread under the other arm
(we had just picked over 9 lbs of berries).
Later, I asked her, "Why the bread?". She said, "Who knows where we will be tonight when we get hungry?".
Oh well! Pat just retired after 20 years in Special Education and at the dinner, her co-teacher said, "Pat was always calm and steady and never got excited. She used the same tone, whether she was saying 'turn in your homework' or 'Put down that desk and don't throw it.' Her make-up was always perfect, never a hair out of place and dress like she stepped out of a magazine".
So gentlemen, we will survive and do nicely because of my wife.
Thank you all (oops!) (y'all) for your concerns and wishes. We here at GB are like a family; aren't we?
BTW Tim; my Infantry training never left me. I took a helmet bath after it was over.
I was going to try to finish my build in time for the calendar but kaa-kaa happens.
When people ask me what happened, I tell them, "It was terrorists. The Tea-Baggers had heard that I voted for O'Bama and burned a cross on my lawn but the fire spread".
Thanks again and for now everyone. I'll try to get back ASAP.
One thing is for sure though; The BP is being removed from the garage and going into a bunker I'll dig away from everything.
Richard The Unchanged
