Impressive pictures

Stella here.

First off, it's OK. Nobody hurt and this ain't nothin' t' panic about. I didn't want t' scare ya.

Me an' Harvey just wanted t' share these pictures we took last night with ya.

Well, f'r all th' times I've said we never get no ex-citement here in Moose Cove, these pictures'll prove to ya that sometimes we DO get some after all.

Me an' Harvey decided we was gonna drive out an' watch th' moon come up last night. It's just about full, y' know, an' we thought it'd be kinda ro-mantic... kinda like in our courtin' days t' go "parkin' " down by th' water.

'Course we've slowed down some since those days, but that don't mean we ain't able t' en-joy ourselves some now an' then!

Anyways, there we was, holdin' habds, moon a-comin' up like some kinda gauzey the-ater prop right on cue, when all the sudden Harvey says, "What 'n blazes is THAT?!" An' there's this big ol' plume o' smoke risin' up off t' one side.

We was mighty concerned, cuz we was afraid it might be one o' th' summer people's houses down a-ways. So we listened but we couldn't hear no sirens and that seemed kinda strange.

'Twasn't th' dump. We was sure about that. Dump's off in another direction all t'gether. So after some de-batin' we drove over toward th' smoke t' see if we c'd find out what was goin' on.

Well, it turns out th' volunteer fire dept. fin'lly got permission t' burn down that ol'

derelict house on th' Cove Road. They was usin' it f'r practise an' "trainin' purposes".

Turns out we wasn't th' only ones there neither... half th' town turned out! If we'da been home we'da heard it on th' scanner.

This mornin' we found out somethin' else went inta th' blaze, too... Some o' th' guys hauled that ol' busted up piano from out o' Miz Gooch's front yard - you know, th' one she'd had her grandchildren put th' "FREE" sign on hopin' somebody'd be fool enough t' take it. Ain't nobody was ever gonna take that old thing, though. It was startin' t' disintegrate right where it stood.

So Eddie Barnes an' th' other volunteers went an' got it an' doused it good with kerosene, since it was so wet from all th' rain, an' it went up in flames along with th' old house.

"Trainin's " what they called it, but I think 'twas just a good ex-cuse f'r th' guys t' stand around an' hoot an' holler at each other!

Me an' Harvey watched f'r a while but we went home 'fore she was all done.

So. That's th' big ex-citement here. Oughta hold us till somethin' else comes along.

But I ain't holdin' my breath.

See ya.

Love,

Stella

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