For everything you find, it reminds you of something you lost. |
I love it here this time of year. |
I want to get permission to move the trailer to this property, so we can live here while we're rebuilding our home. That's the plan anyway, well, as planned as someone can be five hours after a fire. |
People came up to me at the fire and stuffed envelopes of money in my pocket. |
People have been coming out of the woodwork to help us. It's been absolutely amazing. The way people have cared for us is just incredible. It makes you feel so good, and we're so very thankful. |
Right now, we're telling people to hold off on furniture and big stuff like that. We really appreciate it, but we have nowhere to keep it. |
The only thing we know for sure is the next three days. We'll deal with the rest as it comes. |
The Red Cross has been so wonderful to us. |
There were 13 messages on our home phone on the day of the fire. One was from my eye doctor's office. They said they heard about the fire and figured my eye care stuff was burned. They had new contact lenses, cleaner and other stuff for me. |
Those photo albums where in the laundry room, and that's where (investigators) said the fire started. Everything else inside that room was burned beyond recognition, just like most things everywhere else in the house. How those photo albums survived, I have no idea. |
We have lots of good friends, and that's a blessing. |
When you have 10 people living together in the same house, that, in and of itself, takes a real good sense of humor. Fortunately, we have the ability to laugh even at times like this. |