Yes indeed, there are FOUR firetrucks from the local firestation in front of our house this afternoon as we return from Mason City...
"What were they doing her", you ask?.. Well, someone threw a CIGARETTE BUTT out their car window which started the ditch in front of our house on fire.....
Which spread to the twenty or so corn stalk bales in front of our house....
Which spread to the feeder wagon in the cow yard..
They asked my husband to get in the tractor to break the bales apart so they could put the fire out...
And a school bus full of gaukers on the way home from school...
Just as they got done loading up the hoses and two of the fire trucks had left, it started flaring up again, so they had to get the hoses back out...
I understand that it could have been (and thank God that it wasn't) a lot worse (catching the house or the barns full of goats and cows).. However, we are having wind gusts up to 35 mph today and had the wind been blowing just a little more east, it could have been a disaster...Thanks SOOO much to the Stacyville Fire Dept and to "Smiley" - for calling my mother-in-law (who in turn told her painter, who is a fire-fighter for Stacyville, who called it in) and for shutting the barn doors so it didn't get in to the goats and for trying your hardest to beat the fire out with a shovel!!!
