{"id":511,"date":"2009-08-04T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:34:17","slug":"fire-in-them-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Fire in them Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I can’t go home because my neighborhood is trying hard NOT to burn down.\u00a0 Yup, I’m in THAT canyon that’s been on the news smack between the 2 and the 134.\u00a0 Literally watching the helicopters circle the fire trail where we walked the dogs.\u00a0 My mother called me on the way home for the day telling me to come to her house because mine was inaccessible.\u00a0 Sure enough its 10pm and me and the kids are still hanging around waiting for the police to let us IN!\u00a0 I’m dying for a huge dose of Nyquil and my bed!\u00a0 The kids are happily playing Wii with Eithne’s girls while we wait for the all clear from the fire department.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I realized I seem to have a strange reaction to news like this.\u00a0 Ironic Laughter.\u00a0 When fate throws these unexpected curve balls I seem to find it amusing!\u00a0 When I crashed my car into a poor old man I took all in amazing stride, shrugged it off and boarded a plan for Albuquerque as planned.\u00a0 Even when I got the news I no longer had a van because the insurance company totalled it, I found it amazingly humorous.\u00a0 It was weeks later as I experienced the complete restructuring of my life this caused that I felt the real reaction of shock and depression.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment, I have no idea if I have a home.\u00a0 Although its probably fine.\u00a0 And I’m extremely happy we no longer have a dog, imagining the poor beast would have expired from smoke inhalation!\u00a0\u00a0 I’m sitting here chuckling over the complete silliness of waiting and wondering when this whole inconvenient “fire” is going to be over so I can go on with my life.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet if I’d lost my home with all my new clothes!<\/span>\u00a0 stuff I’d roll my eyes at fate, handle it and later, much later when it was safe… have that breakdown the situation deserved.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the meantime… I laugh at the crazy plot-line the writers of my life have thought of now!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I can’t go home because my neighborhood is trying hard NOT to burn down.\u00a0 Yup, I’m in THAT canyon that’s been on the news smack between the 2 and the 134.\u00a0 Literally watching the helicopters circle the fire trail … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twirling-my-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}