March 10, 1996

This was a very scary day at our house. We had been in Texas visiting family. We thought about stopping in Oklahoma to visit some people but decided to just go on home so we would get home before dark.

I walked into out middle bedroom/office with the sliding glass doors and saw our fence burning. I grabbed a phone (not a cell!) and called HFD. Lee ran out and got the hose. I don't know if it was already hooked up or not.

In the photo you can see two men besides Lee. One is on the left above the fence and one can be seen in the lower right, reflected in the water on the pool cover. We don't know who they were. They didn't stay around. We lost part of the fence, a seed spreader and a  plastic table. We were lucky it didn't spread!

Very frightening.