HI I SURVIVED AND (AND AN OLD SKETCH OF A WOODTHRUSH)
I did it - I made it through five days four nights of three teenagers who eat, sleep, take showers and step right out of the shower dripping wet apparently (not sure which one doesn't know how to towel off before stepping out)...They ate all my ice cream bars which was okay and because I was afraid they would melt if we had a power outage which luckily we have made it through two wind events so far with no outage. The food - wow - the food they consumed - amazing. My grandson wanted all his favorite meals we use to cook for him so of course he got them. Anyway - wow, California has a lot of fires going again. I think I need to move ...but where? We had one at the foot of the mountains which is still not even half contained but the wind was blowing it away from traveling up the mountain , at least yesterday. After today I believe there is a break in the winds and then colder winds come in on Monday. California and October (winds) are not best buddies - they are at odds with ...