This week you get two Photo Hunts for the price of one! I missed the one a couple of weeks ago, which was “Safe”, so I thought I’d post it under this week’s theme.

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When I’m not sure what to post for a theme, I usually find a way to incorporate my cat, and I almost did this week but then I found this instead. These photos are from when I fell down my stairs. A couple of days after, a nice pink bruise was forming:

And a couple of days after that, it had grown into this!

And now for the theme from a couple of weeks ago…

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My house backs onto a national park, and just before fire season starts the fire department does burnoffs. We’d been out on the night they were doing it, and came home to the heavy smell of smoke, which was ok as we knew it was going to be happening. What we didn’t plan on is that not all of the fires had been put out. Well, of course there were embers burning all over the place, but this was large enough and close enough to our house that we got a slight case of the heebie-jeebies. We watched it for a while, thinking it would go out by itself, but it didn’t. It even seemed to flare up every now and then (click on the photos below for larger versions):

My husband called 000 and let them know of the fire, and he was told that someone would come and have a look. We waited a while, and saw a truck drive up behind our house and we thought they’d come to check it out, but they just kept driving and didn’t come back. Two more calls to 000 later, a fire engine finally turned up - they probably thought we were suffering from a case of paranoia and came to shut us up. The fireman was really nice, and said that the fire was bigger than they’d like to leave burning. You can see the little strip of fire next to the fire engine.

Then the cool part happened - a fireman got out the hose and blasted the fire, and it was gone in less than a second. Spiffy! I included this last photo because a) I think it looks cool, and b) this was the ’safe’ part I was getting to - the fire was put out and everything was ok.