911 to the Rescue

August 26th I got up early to read my Bible, have some coffee, and be ready to start our first day of school. Once I heard the kids waking up, I put on a pot of water to boil to make oatmeal, then went into the bedroom to make the bed and piddled around doing some other things. I then heard a popping sound, and wondered what the kids were into, so went back out to the living room. What I found was a nice fire on my stove. What? How could a pot of water catch fire? Took me a while to figure it out, but I had turned on the wrong burner, and heated up the small skillet of oil that I had left from a couple of nights before. I quickly called 911, since way too many house fires are small fires that get out of hand. I put a lid over the one pot, and mostly got the fire out. Carried the pan out the back door, and burned my hand doing it. By the time the firetruck got here I had the fire out. It was a good lesson in when and why to call 911 for our first day of school! Taylor was pretty impressed that the fire turck/men were here. I thought to hand Janelle my camera, so we have some picture of them here.

Thankfully, the damage was just in the stove area and didn't get out of hand. My hand blistered up pretty well, but is almost back to normal now.