[lodwick]

I just learned on breaking news that the AZ fires have merged into one wall of fire raging 50 miles across and having already consumed 250,000 acres.
30,000 evacuated from their homes.
Govenor Hull is pissed - and is blasting all the goofy ideas that the environmentalists/whackjobs have got enacted.

The 'toon legacy continues to grow.

[andysandmikesmom]

I am concerned about Miss Palo...I dont know if she is near these fires or not, but am really concerned about her and her family...

You know, we had a prime example here at our house, about nature renewing itself, and how forests need always to be cut and thinned...

Several years ago, we had about 8 huge Douglas Firs cut down off of our property...some were just too close to the house, others just did not appear healthy...today, where each of those trees was cut down, a new fresh tree is growing in its place...we did not plant those new trees, they simply grew from cones or pods left by the cut down trees...Cutting and thinning of forests only leads to new and more vigorous growth, and the older trees serve the purpose for which we have come to rely upon them...