Here We Go Again...

As I was walking from Kathy and Jim's to Alexy's, a few minutes ago, a neighbor's son (who has been fighting the FourMile Canyon fire since it began) was hugging his Mom in the driveway and saying that they finally had it put out. We all hugged and danced a jig. When I arrived at Alexy's I rounded up the kits, fed them, and turned on the local news. The first thing on was an announcement that a new fire has started at Peewink Mountain, just south of FourMile Canyon, and that air and ground assistance was being called in. **Sigh**
I let Neddy and Lovey go out and play in the back yard at the Snow house this afternoon. The last two times we visited, both Neddy and Lovey stayed very close to the patio, so I called their names and led them on a sight-seeing tour of the area (they followed like dogs - but being off leash, could scatter off in another direction or just stop and take in the sights). We walked past the vegetable garden, and the kits had a marvelous time inspecting all the squash, eggplant, lettuce, potatoes, pumpkins, and tomato plants - not to mention the garlic and the rhubarb. Then they explored under the glider plane trailer, and under the 1934 Chevy chassis, and under Kathy's playhouse. Next, I introduced them to the irrigation ditch - in some places it is only 4 inches wide, but deep, and in others, it's 18 inches wide and very shallow. Luckily, the place Neddy fell in was shallow - but then he became greatly excited by the idea of running water, and he spent the next 30 minutes dashing up and down beside the ditch, leaping from side to side. I finally caught him and brought him inside because he was gasping for breath - and of course he wriggled and fought to get out of my clutches and get back to the water. Lovey, on the other hand, found herself a comfortable perch on the blasted willow tree, and sat up there and surveyed everything around and about her. She wasn't happy about coming inside, either. I think I'll have a problem getting them back inside tomorrow....