I bet problems with snow removal look pretty trivial when you can't breathe and you're waiting for your house and land to burn.
Are you guys OK? How close are the fires? Where the heck is Cygnet anyway? I tried looking you up at the Tasmania fire prevention site, but Cygnet must be tiny. (Need to buy an upgrade before I can run Google maps...)
There is a little Island on fire off Tasmania, and cygnet is on the mainland of Tas just across from there. I'll try to find a decent map and show you. The fires are not near, we just got the smoke - it had nowhere to go. People get jusmpy about this time, the anniversary of the '67 fires - fireballs jumping from here to Bruny Island, and from mountain to mountain across the river all the the way from here to Hobart.... there's unfortunately another huge one burning the wilderness at Lake Peddar. But not close. Thanks for the concern though. Hope you dug yourself out.
Yeah, we're finally out, though I had to pay someone to help. Someone I went to elementary school with, in fact. Odd and evocative to see him after all these years. He reminded me that my girlfriends and I trumped up a petition against him. I don't remember, but I suspect it was some stupid girl thing about all of us being secretly enthralled by him. He'd been held back a grade or two and was a bad boy -- rumor was his dad beat him, and he had a nascent mustache. He was the fastest runner in school and always has this startled look about him. Now he's old and fat (like me) with a big comfy beard (unlike me, so far at least). He did 3 tours as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and "retired" when he stepped on a mine. Damn, the years speed by.
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I bet problems with snow removal look pretty trivial when you can't breathe and you're waiting for your house and land to burn.
Are you guys OK? How close are the fires? Where the heck is Cygnet anyway? I tried looking you up at the Tasmania fire prevention site, but Cygnet must be tiny. (Need to buy an upgrade before I can run Google maps...)
There is a little Island on fire off Tasmania, and cygnet is on the mainland of Tas just across from there. I'll try to find a decent map and show you. The fires are not near, we just got the smoke - it had nowhere to go. People get jusmpy about this time, the anniversary of the '67 fires - fireballs jumping from here to Bruny Island, and from mountain to mountain across the river all the the way from here to Hobart.... there's unfortunately another huge one burning the wilderness at Lake Peddar. But not close. Thanks for the concern though. Hope you dug yourself out.
Yeah, we're finally out, though I had to pay someone to help. Someone I went to elementary school with, in fact. Odd and evocative to see him after all these years. He reminded me that my girlfriends and I trumped up a petition against him. I don't remember, but I suspect it was some stupid girl thing about all of us being secretly enthralled by him. He'd been held back a grade or two and was a bad boy -- rumor was his dad beat him, and he had a nascent mustache. He was the fastest runner in school and always has this startled look about him. Now he's old and fat (like me) with a big comfy beard (unlike me, so far at least). He did 3 tours as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and "retired" when he stepped on a mine. Damn, the years speed by.
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