May Blog update

On sunday night (may 15th) a state trooper came to our house to say that we had been moved into 'set' which means we are next on the chopping block to be evacuated. Sipapu and Rockwall have been evacuated, Llano and Rodarte have also been moved to 'set', and Penasco and Picuris have been moved to 'ready'. If you look at my house on the map we were just barely not in the area to be evacuated. So that very same sunday night we decided to move the ducks and chickens in case we were evacuated in the morning. Thankfully we were not but I still believe evacuation for us is inevitable. Then on monday we moved our horses and baby ducks and chicks. :( It was so smokey we had to wear masks outside to keep from breathing in the smoke. It was everywhere. I couldn't see the next mountain from us and when I took it off to get some fresh air, I immediately started into a coughing fit. We have been working on cleaning up the brush and sticks near our house to get rid of some of the fuel for the fire, this is very difficult with a mask but I think for the sake of saving our house it is definitely worth it. I definitely do NOT want to get evacuated but in other ways I kind of just want to get it over with since I think evacuation is like I said inevitable. Anyhoo when we do get evacuated we will probably be bedded down for a good month or so, as the people from Mora still have not been let in and it has been almost coming up on a month and a half, so that won't be very pleasant. Just being in 'set' is making my family and I go stir crazy and handle our fear and mental hardship in different ways which gets on other people's nerves and then makes everybody more tense. So yeah. Things have just wonderfully "lovely" for me. Keep you guys posted and write again when I can!