45% Containment + A Comment

OK - This morning, there was 45% containment of the Four Mile Canyon wildfire. The fire did not spread yesterday; but we do have high and swirling winds today. Some areas that were evacuated on Monday, including Grandma Anne's house, were opened for residents to return after 9 a.m. this morning - but with the knowledge that they might have to evacuate again with little to no warning. (Grandma Anne was going to head back up to Sugarloaf at noon today.) And the warning for possible evacuation is still on for western Boulder, from Broadway to the west and from Spruce Avenue north. Sammie and Tuppurr's Dad has decided not to go on his trip, so I will get to sleep at home at night until Monday.
Neddy is chasing a grasshopper that has gone under the love seat, so he is performing all sorts of acrobatic stretches trying to reach his prey. Lovey keeps coming to tell me how much she loves me, and that she wants me to ignore the keyboard and focus on her. The Rs were good this morning, and had an excellent time chasing a couple of squirrels. Suki and Boo were their usual selves. Sasquatch and Tugger are taking advantage of their parents' absence - when I arrived yesterday evening, I found they had somehow gotten the screw cap off their glass jar of organic catnip, knocked the jar onto the floor, and had the entire kitchen floor covered with catnip. They were both high as kites. I swept up all the herb, and returned it to it's jar, then placed the jar inside a cabinet door I know they can't open. This morning, they had shredded a roll of toilet paper in the main bathroom, so it looked like there'd been a snow storm in there. They are typical boys!

Tomorrow is 11 September, and it will be the 9th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. I send out my thoughts, compassion, prayers, and love to everyone who lost someone due to this awful event. It was a terrible act of unnecessary destruction by religious terrorists. I do believe it was aimed at the United States, but several other countries also had deaths incurred by this horror. ... I believe that the United States were formed by people who wanted their own religious freedom. As a whole, the United States has embraced immigrants who have professed every religion found on this planet. The Pilgrims arrived in search of religious freedom, the Quakers and the Mormons were persecuted for their religious beliefs here in the United States; but they persevered and their descendants thrive today throughout this country. People who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, the One God (who shall remain nameless), Buddha, Krishna, Allah, - even the old gods - are not evil in and of themselves. The crazed followers of any religion, who interpret the teachings of their God as a being who preaches death and destruction, are lost. They are the people who cause unrest and incite (and excite) hatred in others. Pastor Terry Jones, who wants to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, would have fits if someone were to burn his Bible. He and the members of Al Qaida are cut from the same cloth. Hatred is their creed, attention is their goal. All should be denied, disdained, and ignored.