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Sat, Dec. 5th, 2015 05:16 pmThat Smoke I Smell Isn't Someone's Barbecue: A Tale of Living In The Hills by Annarti
Thursday night I smelt smoke when I got home. Check the CFS and sure enough, there's a 'Completed' grass and stubble fire on the road across the valley from me. Then, 10-ish that night, MORE DRAMA. I heard sirens, refreshed the CFS and see an 'Assist SAPOL' (South Australia Police) item ON EVE ROAD. THAT'S MY STREET. The sirens kept getting louder until they stopped RIGHT AT THE END OF MY DRIVEWAY. Carefully crept outside with my phone locked onto the CFS, making sure there wasn't a dangerous situation (I mean, the CFS are involved so it's unlikely to be a gunman or something, but still) and saw the firetruck at the end of the driveway was still full of fieries looking down at whatever SAPOL were doing. The website incident had by this stage upgraded to 'Building Fire' so I, and a bunch of other locals, stood at the end of the driveway in my dressing gown watching all the flashing lights. There was an ambo with its light turned off, and the driver just sitting there reading the paper. Also I couldn't smell smoke.
After a while the fieries all started driving off, and one fiery came over to ask if I knew the people in the house two down from me (nope) and to tell me what was going on. Very small house fire, but the owners weren't home and the implication was that it was deliberately lit. Dick move. Especially so soon after the Pinery fires, seriously dick move. Doubt I'll find anything more about that, but that was a fun bit of drama for the evening!
Moving on, today has been cleaning day, though I've only done one item on the list. Started at about 11:30. Three and a half hours later and the Shagna is as shiny as it'll ever be. There was enough road grime around the bottom of the doors that you could've written 'clean me' in it with your finger, except that it was road grime not dust, and that would be icky. The hub caps--all three of them, goddamnit--were just about black. Now they're the same champagne colour as the car again. Oh, and I had that front left panel replaced on Thursday, so that's no longer dented. Less than $200, so worth it. Cleared out all the shopping bags and floating pens and transferred them to Yoshi the Mazda, got rid of all the parking tickets and shopping receipts, and found $10 under the driver's seat, score!
Yesterday I also got the rego for Yoshi the Mazda transferred and paid my stamp duty, so it's officially mine, now =D
Tomorrow I'll take photos of the Shagna when I take it over to Mum and Dad's, where it'll live until it sells.
Still want to vacuum the house, put my clothes away and sweep the kitchen floor, but after washing the car in 37-ish I need a break. Hey look, a wip! I've since done the trunk and most of the branches of the left-most tree you can see on the ref. Hoping to have it finished today or tomorrow. I had a lot of fun on the reflections. This billabong is so glassy flat and gives the most beautiful soft reflections.
Thursday night I smelt smoke when I got home. Check the CFS and sure enough, there's a 'Completed' grass and stubble fire on the road across the valley from me. Then, 10-ish that night, MORE DRAMA. I heard sirens, refreshed the CFS and see an 'Assist SAPOL' (South Australia Police) item ON EVE ROAD. THAT'S MY STREET. The sirens kept getting louder until they stopped RIGHT AT THE END OF MY DRIVEWAY. Carefully crept outside with my phone locked onto the CFS, making sure there wasn't a dangerous situation (I mean, the CFS are involved so it's unlikely to be a gunman or something, but still) and saw the firetruck at the end of the driveway was still full of fieries looking down at whatever SAPOL were doing. The website incident had by this stage upgraded to 'Building Fire' so I, and a bunch of other locals, stood at the end of the driveway in my dressing gown watching all the flashing lights. There was an ambo with its light turned off, and the driver just sitting there reading the paper. Also I couldn't smell smoke.
After a while the fieries all started driving off, and one fiery came over to ask if I knew the people in the house two down from me (nope) and to tell me what was going on. Very small house fire, but the owners weren't home and the implication was that it was deliberately lit. Dick move. Especially so soon after the Pinery fires, seriously dick move. Doubt I'll find anything more about that, but that was a fun bit of drama for the evening!
Moving on, today has been cleaning day, though I've only done one item on the list. Started at about 11:30. Three and a half hours later and the Shagna is as shiny as it'll ever be. There was enough road grime around the bottom of the doors that you could've written 'clean me' in it with your finger, except that it was road grime not dust, and that would be icky. The hub caps--all three of them, goddamnit--were just about black. Now they're the same champagne colour as the car again. Oh, and I had that front left panel replaced on Thursday, so that's no longer dented. Less than $200, so worth it. Cleared out all the shopping bags and floating pens and transferred them to Yoshi the Mazda, got rid of all the parking tickets and shopping receipts, and found $10 under the driver's seat, score!
Yesterday I also got the rego for Yoshi the Mazda transferred and paid my stamp duty, so it's officially mine, now =D
Tomorrow I'll take photos of the Shagna when I take it over to Mum and Dad's, where it'll live until it sells.
Still want to vacuum the house, put my clothes away and sweep the kitchen floor, but after washing the car in 37-ish I need a break. Hey look, a wip! I've since done the trunk and most of the branches of the left-most tree you can see on the ref. Hoping to have it finished today or tomorrow. I had a lot of fun on the reflections. This billabong is so glassy flat and gives the most beautiful soft reflections.
