The Lonely Potter Prepares to Fight Fire

Three weeks of living in the reek of forest fire smoke does not create complacency. It does create a desire, a need even, to DO SOMETHING! This urge kicked into high gear today when we learned that new areas nearby are being evacuated, and there is a danger of high winds and lightening this evening, which makes it impossible to guess where the next fire will take hold.

So, the lonely potter left the cool, unsmokey studio for the hot, smokey outdoors. First he hosed down, by hand, with a garden hose,  every inch of ground and all the trees within a twenty foot radius of the house.  Then he lugged hose, sprinklers, and whatever he could manufacture to attach the sprinklers onto the roof, and let the sprinklers run until the roof and deck were dripping wet. Meanwhile, helicopters flew by every few minutes, the sun went down in flames, and the ducks on the pond just kept on swimming.