Entry for May 23, 2006 What an AWFUL night

Entry for May 23, 2006 What an AWFUL night
We all have our bad nights, but this on takes the cake for me. After being chased by a baby Blue-Jay that was just learning to fly at my sunshine's daycare, we went home. I did a bunch of paperwork, and then talked to a friend that I hadn't talked to in a long time. Received some not so good news from her, but it's her life and life will go on. Only she determines how she lives her life. Best wishes to her. Then sunshine and I went to bed at about 11ish. If you have any questions or concerns why we go to bed so late...ask me I'll be more than happy to explain it to you. There is logic behind the madness. If I had it my way we'd be in bed by 9 everynight. At about 2:15ish, the dogs started to go NUTS, I looked up and saw that the tree outside my bedroom window was Orange. Okay I thought, I'm still dreaming apparently and the aliens have landed.(that is seriously what I said to myself) I was too tired to go and get my ray gun, and I figured Duck would come to my rescue. Thinking nothing else of it, I went back to sleep. Shortly later.....the dogs started to go again. For both dogs to be barking like they were, something was really wrong. I sat up, opened the window and again saw the orange tree, thinking that the Aliens had already left I yelled at the dogs to shut up, and that's when I heard the crackling sound. I must admit that I have NEVER been so terrified in my life as I was at that very moment. I thought to myself, oh my god my house is on fire. I looked around the room and my sunshine was asleep next to me and there was no smoke or disarray in the bedroom so I decided that the best thing was to leave him in the room since I felt he was safer there while I went to investigate. I literally jumped out of bed, and ran to the door, swung it open, and saw the normal hallway. I couldn't figure out why there wasn't any smoke, why I didn't see anything. For the tree to be that orange, it had to be serious. I ran down the stairs and into the laundry room as I knew that if I had to go outside I didn't want anyone to see me in my night clothes. Again I saw the orange tree, and now the side of the garage was orange. I still was having a difficult time comprehending what was going on, there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. I ran to the kitchen and opened the window, again the orange garage, and the side of the deck was glowing. Figuring that something was a muck, I ran to the front door and opened it cautiously...that's when I saw it. The fire was across the street, I turned around really quick and grabbed the phone...I saw only a chimney among the flames. I was horrified and started to lose control of my feeling and began to massively panic. I called 911 and hysterically told them the house across the street was on fire and that there was nothing left. They told me that they had already rec'd a call and that help was on it's way. I immediately called Duck's buddy to see if they had left work as he wasn't home yet and I really needed someone to help me calm down. He talked to me for a while and said that he should be home any minute. Not wanting to leave my sunshine, I stayed there on the porch and watched in horror as the building continued to burn uncontrollably. A few minutes later the fire department arrived but it was too late, there was nothing left. Duck seeing all the fog on the way home and then realizing that it wasn't fog, it was smoke was horrified to see the direction it was coming from. He raced home and had to drive through all the traffic of the small little streets. By the time he had gotten home the fire was mostly extinguished and the only thing that you could hear was the sounds of the truck, men and crackling of the electrical wires. I managed to calm down before Duck got home and in the mean time I had recorded the fire on the camera. I saw this boy walking down our street and I stopped him to see if he knew if anyone was hurt, he said that it was only a garage. It is certainly an eye opening experience. Duck will put in 5 smoke detector this weekend, and we will buy a ladder for the second story window. I'm still a little shaken by the event and have sore eyes from crying.