The Impossible Fires

  Day 9 Take 2 

September 22, 2022

And there it was crashing on the roof of ambition, soaking my dreams and making mud in paddocks. It came down hard, hard enough that I instantly regretted not having waterproof footwear that was cute enough to wear to work and fit my orgerishly wide feet. 

Wet feet for now. It’s only at work and they do dry throughout the day. I tried to not let the damp in my running shoes bother me. It wasn’t long before I was running fast enough tending to all the needs of all the people who needed me that I forgot that my feet were unhappy with their current lifestyle. 

Suddenly everyone was leaving and I realized it was time for lunch. I looked outside for the first time since I walked into the clinic in the pouring rain this morning. It was beautiful and sunny. Good Old Haida Gwaii I thought. 

We have a rule around here, if you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes. If you don’t want to wait 10 minutes then go for a drive. 

I left the clinic and was pleased to meet a very dear friend in the parking lot I hadn’t seen for several months. I felt the warm of the sunshine on my skin while we caught up quickly and then went to “our spot” to meet Brent for lunch. 

Every day at 12:05 I meet my husband at the pier, dock, warf? I never know what to call it so I just call it “our spot” 

The sun shone with a little more summer lovin left to give on the first day of autumn and I was grateful for every drop of it, watching the sea birds make pretty patterns in the ocean in front of me while I ate my luck with my favorite human. 

It was a treat to come home to the sun still shining. 

The rest of the work day vanished into the chaos and I was glad that the sun was still shining. 

On the way home he said to me “If you can get that fire light after last nights rain I will be amazed”, “but I bet you $5 that you won’t be able to get that fire light”

For 7 years I’ve been told by so many people that it was going to be impossible to burn that pile of sticks and mud. 

Armed with my fire starter kit I headed out to the yard more determined that ever to get my fires going. 

I’m am now $5 richer, I might even be $10 richer because I got both those fires going. And for the next 3 hours I ran what I refer to as The Fire Relay. Stoking and tending to one than over to the other clearing everything in my path. 

There were stumps, some of them I could barely lift. I picked them up and carried them to the fires. 

The world around me grew dark and suddenly I realized that I had worked way too late and way too hard. I stopped to look up at the all the hard work I had done. The forest all the way from my neighbors fence to my house was clear and I could see right through…… 

Oh no!! I could see right through!!! What had I done! 

Thankfully I am a resourceful woman! Into the house I went to make some curtains. Tomorrow I will start to plan some trail obstacles that are pretty,  permanent, waterproof and can withstand hurricane force winds. This seemed like a pretty tall order but after tonight I will never let anyone tell it’s impossible for me to do something ever again. 

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