Burn Baby Burn

Sometimes God speaks to people in prayer, for some it happens in church, for others in meditation or while communing with nature and sometimes if you are really hard headed He lights fire to your barbeque to get your attention.

Last weekend we had the busted lip incident. This weekend CH fell off a bench and gave himself a nasty golf ball size welt complete with road rash mark on his forward, a tad harder and he would have eclipsed his brothers injury and would have surely needed stitches. Then, that night our BBQ grill caught fire. I don't mean a flare up as M initially thought I was telling him. I mean our grill was completely engulfed in flames. Again, panic set in. Where is the fire extinguisher? It has to be here in the pantry! We do not have a fire extinguisher, we were looking for the one we had in Denver, which is still in Denver. I gave our address incorrectly to the Fire Dept. More Panic as they drove by. Will the propane tank set our building a blaze? Should I move the kids to an interior room in case it blows? Where is that d&*n fire extinguisher? Will the garden hose help? YES! The garden hose helped, it could not extinguish the flames as they had a steady source of food via the propane tank but it did keep the grill just a bit cooler and we avoided having to cash in that renters policy. We think we annoy our neighbors now, just think if we blew up the joint?

The firemen were pretty surprised that a new grill would be in this situation. They think it was a faulty connection line to the propane or a leak in one of the lines.