Dan and Tobi...Our Hosts....

The predicted wind event didn't happen last night, so we should have gotten a better night's sleep but it was not to be. Ozzie was restless, disoriented and panting off and on and, especially since we are not in our own home, we tried to be vigilant about taking him outside. (he loves it out there, especially the chicken coop). There was a huge blood red moon in the sky which was actually quite beautiful. We finally fell asleep, only to be awakened at 4:30am by a blaring emergency alert. By the time we fumbled around for the phone and found it, the message had disappeared, never to be seen again.... along with any chance of ever going back to sleep. Our Zoom coffee meeting at 9am was a bit bleary and unfocussed. 

We get emergency warnings from the city, the county, the power company, the Sheriff's office and nixle which is a company that contracts with public safety agencies to send alerts. During an emergency like this, they are more or less constant. There is a lot of overlap but in the search for information one tends to sign up for all of them. It becomes confusing. A lot of evacuations have been downgraded to warnings, but any areas with burned structures , which includes our house, are still off limits.

They are still patrolling our neighborhood with fire and water trucks putting out hot spots, according to Cindy who is rapidly becoming our den mother and has an uncanny ability to talk her way in there and make reports.

We made a run to the grocery store to replenish Dan and Tobi's larder. I have never seen Oliver's Market so empty. Come to think of it, I haven't been in any market for over six months. The high school and three elementary schools all had parking lots full of firefighters and their trucks. The smoke is dreadful.

As for the news from Washington...when I saw on my phone at 4:30 this morning that DT and his wife have tested positive I couldn't take it in, but I think I might have given a slight cheer. 

What goes around comes around.....