blue eyes

So we may have ourselves a new pet? We found this little guy in our backyard last week. He was just skin and bones and looked like he had been on his own for a long time. The poor guy was just starving, quite literally. So we ran to the store and fed him (I know, I know).  He's very sweet, friendly and responds to "here kitty kitty". Kylie sure loves to feed him and can do that all by herself! I'm not sure how old he is but I'd guess he's about a year old or so? He's not quite a full size adult. I've started calling him Percy. Crazy thing is that he looks like a living reincarnation of our cat Sukie that we had growing up. I love the color of his eyes!

Welcome kitty, hope you can stay.

Wow! Talk about a craaaaazy day in our little town. Yesterday afternoon the hills just south of us caught on fire. I believe around 1600 homes were evacuated, three homes were completely destroyed and a couple of hundred homes have some minimal damage. Our house was just outside the evacuation zone, the smoke was getting really bad last night but cleared up by this morning. These hills are so close. It's been all over the news.

I don't know what your view looked like last night, but ours started off looking like this around 5pm or so...

(all photos from KSL or Deseret News)

By eight or nine pm it looked like this:

Again these aren't our photos but you get the idea! Seeing stuff like this firsthand is quite the experience. Jared took some video I'll have to see if I can post it.