The workers didn’t come yesterday, but they came today and started building the framing for the part of the house with a crawl space under it. Apparently, they will be slowing down work while they wait for the blue duct to arrive. They don’t want to pour the walls until the blue ducting is in place.
The Holy Fire is 64% contained and there is no evidence (ash or smoke) in Modjeska. The fire was allegedly started by a crazy guy who has had run-ins with his neighbors for years.
I am including a photo of a sunflower tree, which sprouted in Ted’s flower bed in the front yard. We have two kinds of sunflowers around the yard, seeded by the birds dropping seeds from the bird feeder. Most of the sunflowers are very tall and have one enormous flower at the top. The few of them like this don’t usually bloom well because they need more water than they get outside of an irrigated bed.
