It was dicey there for a bit...
A South wind today, blew the fire North of Paradise. 24,000 acres burned so far. The fire is only 20 percent contained, but at least it is burning many miles north of us. I was worried last night when it got to the flats below the Compound. It would have been a nice, easy and quick burn up the ridge to the Compound. Turns out that the closest the fire has gotten thus far is about three or four miles.
The Solar Cabin is safe for now, it appears...
Whew!!
Found it rather ironic that with our residence in the Napa Valley given up; Joni's job given up; my status changed at work: that a fire would threaten this move. Lucky that this didn't happen two weeks from now...when all of our stuff would have been threatened too. Not that we have all that much. I still wouldn't want to see everything we have burned to a crisp.
Onward!
An ongoing journal of building an "off-the-grid" solar homestead, life, boring tedious stuff, knee-jerk eco-socialist opinion, work (as little as possible) and family---from the edge of the wilderness (where the Sierra meets the Cascades).
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