Well, it has been a busy end of the summer, getting ready for school/work and all... and to top it all off, the 2nd week of school, Sept 10th to be exact, our barn burned down!!!
Talk about crazy. The fire dept was just here Tues afternoon for a small electrical fire that had started and they dumped like 2200 gallons of water on the barn and all around where the fire had started... needless to say we kept watch all night and checked it, like, 8 times (or more) between 4:30pm, when the fire dept left, and 11pm, when we went to bed... then....
Being woken up at 2am by a psychotic dog was a bit heart-attack inducing, to say the least. We didn't know if someone was breaking in or what, but at the moment I heard Tom say, "Oh, F***!! The barn is burning!" I knew it was going to be a long, long night... the kids woke up and of course M thought we were going to all die and the house was going to burn, and V decided to take it upon himself to call 911 (I did grab the phone before he hit connect) since, "ya know, mom. You are supposed to call 911 when there is a fire so the fire dept can come." So matter of fact and calm... crazy little man... calmed them down and got them back in bed. And by 5am, the fire dept was gone, the barn was gone and I was NOT going in to work... uh!!!
By the grace of God, no one was hurt and it was if an invisible hand pushed the fire back... You can see where it burned almost to our fire-pit and something pushed it back to the barn again. The small milkhouse in front of the barn had the roof and wall closest to the barn totally burned but the side towards the house and the back wall and the roof towards the house weren't...
So, here are some pics for you to wonder at....
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