Marching Through History 2009

This past weekend, we attended our annual living history event Marching Through History. Our group Morgan's Rifles took 1st place for the best colonial camp. Miles and Helen had a wonderful time, Tom was the High Private, and Sara was cooking for 40+ people in the camp kitchen.

More Fire pics

A fine view from my front door 9/22/09

Yesterday as I was going about my morning, I noticed that a portion of the sky out my front door kept changing color. I thought it was probably just dust from the river bottom because the Santa Ana winds were blowing, but when I opened my door to take a better look, surprise!!!.... a brush fire had started and I was able to get a fantastic view right from my front porch. Here are some of the pictures I took. There will be another post more.
Don't worry Tom is safe, but very exhausted. He is currently resting at his fire station waiting until 6 PM to see if he needs to go back out on the line and fight the fire some more. I think his engine company was the first on scene when the fire was reported.
So far 8,000+ acres have burned and there are many evacuations in place. However we are safe, and just sending up prayers that the fire gets under control soon.