What?! A fire... !!

Apparently, while we were at the studio packing up... our dump truck caught on fire at our house and burned completely up. We were so busy moving and only sleeping at the house - we didn't notice it (it was in the back yard) and someone had to ask us about the first - because it made the newspaper!

Oh yes... I kid you not.

And while a certain neighbor who compulsively burns leaves and then uses his dump truck to scoop ashes into the creek near his house - so the fire area goes undetected (especially during non-burning times) - well, he denied having a fire that day (but I was told by another neighbor that he did) and therefore didn't take the blame for a fire that started near his property and climbed uphill to our dumptruck - and also burned about an acre of underbrush. (Thus revealing another wonderful treat that the owners have left on the property - this one because a dump full of broken bottles, cans, pots and pans, and just junk. It had been hidden in the bushes all these years and only noticeable when all that growth was burned.)

Yuck!

Anyway... we lost the truck and about $3000 in tools, small eqt, party supplies, and pool stuff - PLUS the value of the truck - which is now worthless and has to be hauled off the property.

Here's the truck.