tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post4806544033476260008..comments2023-09-09T05:35:11.672-07:00Comments on Boots and Saddles: A fire and lessons learnedMelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16627065628317652042noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-10338352289684018802012-07-26T17:30:04.163-07:002012-07-26T17:30:04.163-07:00Lesson: Always have your contact information near ...Lesson: Always have your contact information near your animals. <br />If you didn't find a lead rope, a phone number (theoretically connecting you to someone who knows where the leads are stored) would have been helpful.<br />You were a very good neighbor to take the initiative and make sure the animals were okay. =)Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15925650148327532110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-50303158310151684872012-07-26T16:59:50.210-07:002012-07-26T16:59:50.210-07:00The fire crew drove down the strawberry field lane...The fire crew drove down the strawberry field lane until they could come through to the pasture behind us. They went diagonal until they accessed the next door pasture from east of our prop. They continued southeast until they then cut through to the end of the road property.<br />I think they tried driving down our road, but didn't see the access they wanted.Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022843273272878598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-57736376795156141672012-07-26T10:49:51.936-07:002012-07-26T10:49:51.936-07:00I used to leave wire cutters in a cavity of the hi...I used to leave wire cutters in a cavity of the hitching rail. Very good lessons!<br />SharleneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-16240626937701106222012-07-26T10:21:17.728-07:002012-07-26T10:21:17.728-07:00All good lessons / advice, and I'm glad everyt...All good lessons / advice, and I'm glad everything turned out okay. I find myself getting into more and more emergency situations and thinking, "If I only had this or I only had that."<br /><br />I'm learning that when you live in a truly rural area, so many things can go wrong. I got in the habit of locking my horse trailer tack room since my creepy neighbor at my old house kept trespassing and fiddling with my stuff. Here at my new house, though, I've learned that keeping that tack room unlocked is a matter of life or death. I have to be able to access stuff in a hurry -- no time to hunt down keys. Almost every time I leave the house, even if for a few minutes, I return to find my horses in some kind of a pickle.Nuzzling Muzzleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649710635013663900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-30875361246887343702012-07-26T09:56:33.916-07:002012-07-26T09:56:33.916-07:00I feel naked without a knife so that definitely ca...I feel naked without a knife so that definitely can across (btw I want a leatherman for xmas!) But the belt thing was hard because we never got new belts that fit so I was always a little uncomfortable in one in both how they felt and looked.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627065628317652042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-66371878156920437142012-07-26T09:52:02.942-07:002012-07-26T09:52:02.942-07:00I know it sounds odd, but I have always been uncom...I know it sounds odd, but I have always been uncomfortable without a knife (even just a pen knife) and belt. It is absolutely amazing what you can do with them if need be and there is generally no handy substitute.<br /><br />Perhaps I should have stressed such things more when you all were growing up.<br /><br />PaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963277636652034473.post-41873314157489774212012-07-26T09:40:38.678-07:002012-07-26T09:40:38.678-07:00How exactly did the emergency vehicles access whos...How exactly did the emergency vehicles access whose pasture? Our next door or our rear? Did they come through to our pasture and then out through next door?redgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467377107439876941noreply@blogger.com