Fires, Winds... and Snow?

Yesterday, Boulder reached 80 degrees, which broke the high temperature record for the day; the record low for the day was -2. Yesterday we had 20 to 30 mph winds all day - which helped contribute to a small wildfire on the west side of Boulder, which, thankfully, was quickly contained and extinguished, after burning less than one acre, but threatening 15 homes due to the winds. Another fire started yesterday up in Larimer County - it's being called the Crystal Fire, and is about 12 miles west of Horsetooth Reservoir. There were winds of over 50 mph last night, and the fire has spread to over 2,000 acres, and is completely uncontained. It's a very rural, mountainous area - residents of Stringtown Gulch and Redstone Canyon are being evacuated, as well as those residents living south of Rist Canyon Road. The reporters covering the fire at the evacuation sites are definitely city folks - as they exclaim over the people bringing in their cats, dogs, chickens, goats, and rabbits. The larger critters are going to stabling at the county fairgrounds - but people and small pets are being accommodated at several local public schools. .... It was 62 degrees when I awoke this morning, but we have a steady wind blowing at 25 to 30 mph again today, with gusts up to 90 mph. There is also a cold front sitting over Laramie, Wyoming, that will turn the wind from the west to the south... and the weather folks say we'll have 3 to 6 inches of snow by tomorrow morning. We'll see. I can confirm that the temperature is slowly dropping here, and that the sky, which was cloudless at 7 a.m., is now totally overcast. Let the rain and snow come in buckets!! I do not like fire! ... The kits are jumpy today - I don't know if they sense the coming storm or if the smoke is bothering them, but they are both "twitchy." Lovey and Nedi both slept with me last night. They are such wonderful little loves!