So much for nothing ever happening in a small town. Well, there is your usual gossip, but today the major Charlotte news stations are flying overhead. You see, I live on 3 acres that backs up to a 100 acre tract of empty land. A couple of years ago, the guy who owns the land turned it in to a stump dump. This afternoon, it caught on fire. Of course, with the drought going on here, it caught fast. 3 hours later it is still sending flames high into the sky. We can see the glow from my kitchen window.
Thank goodness both of my boys are firemen- one is actually somewhere between our house and the fire, watching that it doesn't jump the fire break they have made. So far, they haven't talked about evacuating, and I hope they don't. Right now they have it contained and the wind is not blowing. We'll just watch from the windows and see what happens. (I took the picture above from out my kitchen window.)
