Thank you everybody for not only your prayers and well wishes but for your understanding and support.
--Gayle, your offer to let my daughter stay with you is so kind, but I doubt she'll take you up on it. 40miles is too far away and she does have that friend to stay with, unless that street gets evacuated too. She can come and stay with us if she needs to, but we are even farther away.

I like the fury against an arsonist (if there was one) and knowing that we do get attached to our possessions, especially those full of memories. I only have the family photos, not her college years, month visit in Russia, 10 months living in a small basque town in Spain and everywhere where I was not there. She didn't have a digital camera until recently.

I hope my telling her to not worry about the quilts helps quash any guilt she may have in my behalf. I put in long hours making them, but I had fun doing that and she enjoyed them for years. and hey... I'm still alive... I can make more!

--M, thanks for the sites. I could've used those yesterday. I finally managed to get to them on my own this morning. I went through the local newspaper there; Santa Barbara News-Press where they had buttons to click for the most update info. Honestly, they must have somebody stationed at their info site at all times; it is updated constantly. I didn't like the latest reports.

I'm so sorry about this frightening situation you and your daughter have to deal with! Just pray your butt off--that's my solution for everything scary, difficult and challenging. It works for me. I'll pray that the fire passes over her home.

Your advice about photographing every quilt is good. I sure hope she doesn't lose her house. She must feel so helpless stuck away in Chicago while all hell is breaking loose at home. She's in my thoughts!

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Oh, Cathy I am so sorry you're all going through this. It's been on our news, and is a terrible thing. I'll be praying and thikning of your daughter.

I'm so sorry to hear this! I've been wondering how the fires are doing. I have a 2nd cousin that lives in downtown Santa Barbara...I believe she is okay (except for breathing).

I had a kitchen fire a lot of years ago...I lost everything in the kitchen, but managed to save family pictures. I learned a lesson...ALL pictures I cherish are now on computer disk, scanned those I didn't take myself, and I have a disk stored in our safe deposit box. As for cherished items......it's hard to lose some things that had family history. I AM much more careful in the kitchen now!

Best of luck and prayers for everyone in the fire's path.

Any updates??

I hope that they get that fire under control quickly... prayers being sent to that area

Cahty, still saying prayers for everyone. It is really scarry.

We have high fire warnings and winds today in Castaic and it is really hot.

I also hope and pray everything works out for your daughters home it looked real bad on tv tonight on the news.

Isn't there someway at least they would be able to save her instruments.
I sure hope so and at least some of your quilts.

Do keep us posted.

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