Exciting evening at the Oelkers farmstead - our very own wildfire. Lynn called me around 3ish to let me know that there was an out of control fire in a field across the road from our little place in the country, and today’s gusty winds blew the embers all over the place. Including the soybean fields surrounding our home! A whole squadron of firefighters were on the place when my wife arrived to catch the goings on…

Lynn took it upon herself to rescue our kitties - everything else being mere, well, stuff. A couple hours later everything was under control with little damage for anyone involved. Our total was a couple yards of grass next to our lane not being in need of mowing fir quite sometime, as well as a patch of burnt grass right next to one of our barns. And a traumatized wife who spent over an hour getting our new kitten out of the area behind the glove compartment s/he managed to get stuck behind.

Me, I missed it all, being quite a ways from home when the call came in. I would have at least caught a picture… ;)