Hi Folks -The fire update from Alpine is lookin' great! People who lost homes were notified yesterday by the county sheriff, and people who lost lesser "outbuildings" were to be notified by certified letter in the next couple of days. No notification yesterday. Hurrah!! Fire is now officially 405,000 acres and 5% contained. I am so sad for the change in life this will make for everyone who lives in the area. Two comments I have read I find particularly appropriate: one woman innocently asked "what's mop-up?" On 400,000 acres -- mop-up would be the rest of the summer, darlin'. The other comment was from a 91 year old man whose family brought the first sawmills into the White Mountains. He noted that anything that grows needs to be harvested, and asked how the forest took care of that before the US Forest Service came on the scene.
On a different and far lesser note, I appear to have changed the "follower" setting on this blog in some way and none of the followers show up on the first page. So if that's -- ewe -- sorry! I'm working on it, but am a techno-challenged grandma.
Thinking of ewe all from the tops of the mountains to the heat of the desert -
The Shepherd
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