Good Tuesday morning, Christmas friends!
Watching with sadness the fires in Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg, TN. These are two of my favorite places to visit. I'm praying that no one gets hurts, and the damage isn't too severe, although many houses have burned and at least one large hotel so far.
I hope @mgramsey and @whitney37354 are safe!
And I hope y'all have a great day!
We are okay! We live about 1.5 hrs. south of PF & Gatlinburg. DH's BIL is a local firefighter & had to go up there around noon today to help out. The core of Gatlinburg seems to be okay, but everything around it is gutted. People here are devastated. I'm wondering if the hotel where we spent our honeymoon is gone...;
We got our first real rain last night since July. However, the high winds didn't help with the fires. The next town south of us is in the mountains & had another fire last night. We've been living with smoky smells inside our house for the past couple of weeks from all the wildfires that dummy's are setting on purpose. We live in the woods and if anyone drove by our house and threw out a cigarette butt, our whole property would go down in flames. It's supposed to rain again tonight so that should help. It will be a long time before anyone around here complains about rain!
On a brighter note, we got all our trees & decor up over the weekend. I did a lot of Christmas shopping before work this morning. Before that, only a few Santa gifts & two other gifts had been purchased. I was starting to panic, since I usually like to have all my shopping done & gifts wrapped before Thanksgiving. I hope to get more shopping done this weekend & try to get close to finished.
