It's been pretty exciting around here the past few days. The mountains behind our house were on fire and it was pretty interesting to watch. It got really windy the day it started so it spread super fast. The second picture down is one I took while Jeff and Hudson were at Father's and Sons. The top one is what it looked like by the time he got home. They were both taken just from our back porch. You could feel the heat of the fire just by stepping outside. Luckily the wind was blowing all the smoke in a different direction. We have had a ton of helicopters dropping water and planes dropping the red flame retardant and that's been fun to watch. People would follow the helicopters to watch them fill up at the local ponds and water supply areas. We tried to watch them fill up once, but they were done as soon as we got there. But we were able to watch this big thing get it's water bucket attached in the elementary school's field that is just by our house. We've also seen tons of fire fighters drive by our house, a lot of them from out of state such as the Houston HotShots. So it's just been exciting watching everything going on so close around us. The fire looks like it's out from our side, but I think it's still going on behind the mountain because there are still helicopters dropping water back there.
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