Duncan Grass Fire

Yesterday was a "shadow" day, one that was not so great.  First we went to a town north of us to buy an advertised treadmill only to find out that it had been sold and the fellow had not removed the ad from the website it appeared on.  This was the second time a potential treadmill purchase has not worked out for me so I am going to take it that I am not supposed to have a treadmill..

On the way home, approaching the town where we live, I could suddenly smell smoke and then you could see it in the air.  We turned and drove down the highway where the smoke was coming from and there were people stopped and looking, trying to find out what it was.  A little closer to the fire area, we were forced to turn off as the fire department had blocked the road.  This was about 3:30pm..  we drove down another road and found that it was blocked also. From the second angle we could see that it was a lot of smoke covering a good-sized area.  I was worried about some cows in a field a little south of the fire which appeared to be from the location of a golf course.  That evening on the 5:00pm news they showed a rather large area of flames and said that it had jumped the road and was heading for a local mountain.  It was very windy and that's why the fire was spreading so fast.