Made it home today. Very first thing I did was take a nap. It’s just so exhausting sleeping in a house full of other people, not in your own bed, even when they’re all family. And I won’t even mention the occasional barking of the dogs.

We’re more or less out of danger now. A shift of winds or something like that is not completely out of the question, but the winds are expected to die down by 6 pm today. They’ve already been much better.

Home looks like it usually does. A little bit of ash blew in under the door, but that’s it. In the 2003 Cedar fire the winds were blowing perfectly to dump massive quantities of ash in my mother’s yard, but this time she didn’t get that, and we didn’t get it here either, despite being much closer to the fires.

While the risk of fire is not completely over, the most dangerous conditions are gone. No more high winds to whip it up into an inferno too quickly for anything to be done about it, and as I said the last bits of the wind will be gone soon.

We’re keeping prepared for now, just in case, but it’s highly unlikely that we have anything to worry about.

My sister still can’t go home, and she doesn’t particularly want to go home until they have water. She may not leave until the boil water order is over, in fact. That means at least a couple more days.

Gage is napping really well right now. He resisted, but like everyone else the poor kid is exhausted. Ariel is disappointed that she had to leave her cousins. All one big party to her, which helped except that they were much too rowdy at times. All us parents are all too glad to be done with that.

Now I just have to keep Ariel busy all week until school starts up again next week. I’m sure we’ll be making that up at the end of the school year. Gage’s speech therapy was closed for the week too. We got a call from them saying they’ll start up again next week. They were probably very close to some of the burn zones.

But around here, the entire drive from my mother’s house here, in fact, you’d hardly know anything happened. Didn’t pass any of the burn zones. Of course that also means no interesting pictures.

I hope the smoke clears from the air soon. We’re supposed to keep children inside as much as possible. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? We are letting the kids outside just a little because it is really hard keeping them 100% cooped up.  That was a big part of the reason the kids were so wound up at my mother’s house.

Now I get to catch up on everything around here. It will probably take me a few days to get back into routine, especially while keeping a slight extra eye on the news. But I’m not going to watch it all day. Did enough of that and the odds of anything immediately relevant have become slim enough.

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