LATEST ON FIRE...

...can be read about here. Again, be sure to click on the photo gallery. There are now some "after" pictures, where you can see the blackened landscape.

Things aren't looking much better today. I've been outside painting my garage (trying to beat the heat!) and have had helicopters flying over all morning. Some are even carrying those water buckets. The smoke is everywhere today, and seems much closer. Over 130,000 acres have now burned in this Pine Ridge fire near our home.