Yesterday, I visited my sister to celebrate her latest cancer-free checkup and her birthday. Feeling bad due to a miserable Summer cold, I left early. When I got home, a small patch of woods in my back yard was on fire.
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The girls and I fought the fire, first with buckets of water, then were able to get enough hoses linked to hose it down.

A lightning strike had blown pieces of wood all over my back yard.

Had the fire continued to spread it surely would have consumed my neighbor's workshop and maybe our houses.