As it went before, I was on Wild Blue Sat internet. On their business plan they only offer 17gigs/month down transfer. Once that limit was reached they basically took us down to less than dialup speeds for over usage! Wi th that I was not even able to check email from my own server, let alone watch any kind of internet porn(j/k). So out here in the middle of nowhere I was limited to physical labor, eating, or making large fires to entertain myself.

Entertaining myself will be held to that term for family reasons! But what happened about a week and a half ago is exciting for any warm blooded male! We happened to be shoveling dirt this day, an average day in the middle of the week on a new construction site. While in the middle of a dirt stroke and toss, the mail lady pulled up. She mentioned “The Granite Creek Marina is on fire”! We all looked in that direction but didn’t see any smoke. Our boss Dan said “We help out in areas like this with fires”. Excited at the aspect of doing anything besides shoveling dirt we all jumped in Lance’s(a coworker) truck and headed towards the alleged fire. As we drove towards that area I didn’t notice any smoke. I thought to myself “If there is a fire it should have smoke”. We buzzed the mile or so distance between our work place and the fire quickly(Lance likes to drive like he is going to a fire all the time). When we arrived on site a entire building was up in flames. Burning so hot and dry that there was no smoke. It was the oddest thing I have seen in a long time! Our boss first asked a local spectator if we could be of any assistance. The local replied “They won’t allow any help”. We stood glancing at the blaze for a few seconds before our boss asked a fire fighting looking guy if we could help. The firefighter yelled “WE HAVE 4 VOLUNTEERS HERE”! We all jumped into action like it was our own place burning. The house was completely in flames, but behind the house was a garage structure that was just starting to catch fire. Lance, Jayson, Dan, Roger, and I took it upon ourselves without communication to save the contents of the garage. It was an impressive and very hot situation. The entire house was engulfed in flames and the garage section was dry rough style cut timber already on fire in parts. We came through the back side of the garage and started pulling out anything that looked of value as the heat increased. A canoe, kayak, gas tanks, v-bottom boat, personal affects. When we noticed a couple propane tanks. These tanks already next to a burning tire and hot flames. Jayson and Lance had no fear of death when they went in and pulled those tanks out!. My eyes grew “ooouuuge or huge” as this happened cuz once I spotted those tanks I thought about a huge explosion! I’ll have to expand this into another blog entry!! hehe