Just stopping by to say hello

Hey all,

@Sugarbug and I had taken some break in this forum after we had the coop all done up. Soon this had become a bit of a left behind. After that we had added to the flock, lots of birds including several turkeys, new chickens, old chickens, meat bird chickens(now freezer chickens), ducks, pheasants, peacocks and a new pig. Lotta Irons in the fire since then. We harvested our two Broad Breasted turkeys, had the smaller one for Thanksgiving, delicious! My wood hoarding is resorted to pallets from a safe shop that has pallets like they were like a fence. Id need to take pictures and put them on here for reference but most of them have been either used for fires in the bonfire or hodgepodge hutches for my daughters bunnies. Hope all are doing well and Im sure Ill get caught up on the news around here. Happy New Year!

 

Good to hear from you. We were worried when you stop coming on. It was right about the time of all the fires in your state. Nice to know it was being busy that kept you away and not a disaster. Happy New Year to you as well.

 

I had forgotten about this page likely due to these fires. The fires were pretty bad, we had stuck through it with the amount of particulates in the air that were so dangerous the filter we had put on the fans were rated at about 15 and covered in a matter of days. One fire was up in the hills about 10 miles away. When we drove up there at least a month after it calmed down, the roads were completely changed. It was a sight to see and foreboding no less. Others were in town the other direction and closing all in. The road that headed up the hill to town was blocked for nearly 3 weeks. I actually had to take a bypass down the hill adjacent to the main highway, miraculously only 2 houses burned down in this and the hill that burned the most on this road is just repairing itself by growing grass back. Still scarred in black, the smoke smell lingered for weeks.
How was it for you in BC? I just remember most of it being the color of this Osage orange in the air, rain being the reprieve. Thank you for the welcome back, its a breath of fresh air. More updates to come.

 

Welcome home. glad to have you back. Got any pictures you want to share

 

I should take some, I had a few that I could only catch when driving. But let me see if I can dig some out later, its kind of hard to imagine how many fires were involved. They spread quickly and really overwhelmed the fire depts around. They are the real deal, I was astounded how many fire breaks with using felled trees were made on the hills when it cleared.

 

Welcome back Fatboy, good to hear you guys are doing well.

 

Fortunately for us in this area it wasn't that bad. A few orange sunlight days and then we got a good westerly to clean it out. The lower part of Vancouver Island was pretty thick with smoke for quite some time. The Vancouver/lower mainland really suffered with the smoke adding to the smog.

 

Are you talking about the Sumner/Bonney lake fire?

 

Glad you and your hunny are back with the FHC family. Good to hear from y'all again.

 

Don't be a stranger FatBoy85 .........



And don't forget the pics!

 

Haven't forgotten about you, Mister. How you be? Thanks for the reminder..I took some when the road was still closed and the detour road was the last one before the hill that was on fire. I might end up borrowing a couple from the fire dept that took them there.

 

And the one between Enumclaw and Greenwater! So many were all around us. How did you fare?? You had said you were around there were you??

 

Ok I guess I did pretty lousy on a picture but I was in bumper to bumper traffic off the detour and the visibility in the area was still $#!@. But this entire hill caught fire and its hard to get a proper picture moving. There's a bar on this hill that survived fully. I remember why I took the picture because the hill was smoky but I could see a fire that was coming out of what looked like a tree trunk. The fire dept posted pictures of trees that looked sound on the outside but inside was in fact a full on fire. They were also warning of these when the fire was out on the ground, that trees were possible hidden hot spots.

 

These are not my photos, so no credit to me but these brave folks did nothing shy of phenomenal. Some of the pictures are showing when the smoke finally cleared a bit but since fires were still all over, the valley this hill looks over was completely blocked in smoke. It was at least a week even in rain that came that cleared it up.

 

Incredible.

 

I live between the fires, close enough to the Sumner grade fire that we could watch the helicopters dump water all day from our backyard. Our power was out, it was Smokey, but really no big deal since we’re stuck home for COVID anyway. I had to travel to Sumner during the fire and just drove north around Lake tapps.

Just a typical forest fire but it was close to houses.

 

Wow!

Glad you hear you are all ok up there!

 

Good to hear from you FatBoy85

 

Tom, there were a lot of trucks that got called for random fires that were set. Some were very suspicious. They were put out quickly. It was believed on a community page that one of these fires unrelated to the others going on that a house was intentionally set on fire. Then there were other random fires being reported. But the house fire was at a house that had encroaching wetland which the Ecological dept has control over: choice is to buy your land out before a specific date or be forced to move out. Well they didn't take the offer and waited it out.