: Rambling...

So today was an interesting day... we woke up to a nice note from the City of La Habra asking for some cash (aka, a parking ticket, evidently La Habra requires an overnight parking sticker, lame!). That was that, everyone else on the street got the same note. Good times.

Then at 5 today, I get a call at work from Jess saying that there's a fire in the alley. A really nice man named Jose (that's all we know) stopped by and came up to the window asking if everyone was alright. She thought it was odd and said "sure, why...?" He had seen smoke while driving by the front of the house, threw it in park and came to make sure everyone was alright. He went around back and got the hose and tried to put it out. Turns out that our Christmas tree that I threw out yesterday in the green waste recycle bin had been caught on fire, the fire melted all three trash cans in the alley and caught our back fence on fire. Jose was helping put it out until the fire department showed up. Evidently some kids who cut through the alley by our house, lit some firecrackers and threw it in with the Christmas tree. And like most Christmas tree's, it was dry as dry can be. Dry tree and firecrackers don't mix well...

Thanks to Jose, whoever you are, I can't say thank you enough! It could have been a lot worse - A LOT! We basically have to replace the fence in the back, either rebuild it or replace it with something else. And I'm seriously considering a purchase of some security cameras to monitor the alley... might be an over reaction, but if our garage had caught on fire, or the house, and if this would help avoid it happening to someone else, it'd be worth it. we'll see what happens...

For now though... a pic of my amazing wife reading when we were on our Monterey Trip with our friends (and blog stars), the King's.