The hills, the hills, the hills are on fiar...

[kickaha]

Swear to god, my hometown was the model for Twin Peaks.

Most recent development? 6800 acre (and counting) fire started by folks who lived two doors down from us, with an ill-thought-out smoke bomb during a paintball game. Fire went the other direction from our old house.




Those are borate planes, btw... they're supposed to be that low. :)


See?


Usually you don't get quite this close a view... (INCOMING!)


This one has Flight of the Valkyries running through my head, even through they're dropping water, not napalm.


Mmmm, toasty.


And what it looks like when you're fighting it on foot.


I've done a little fireline work, and it is hot, nasty, and grungy. When you're literally helping a school friend save his family's home and farm though, it keeps things in perspective. Hats off to the guys fighting this.

And Diede? You always were a dipstick.

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On the other hand, I completely failed to get *you* to pay *me* ten bucks for the privilege. Oh, well. I like to think my art is above crass commercialism.