Smoking Kills Others

The local volunteer fire department helped put out the fire. Photo by: Suna …can prevent grass fires. Photo source: Wikipedia

Here’s the field still smoldering. Photo by: Suna

Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette

Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death

Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate

That you hate to make him wait

You’ve gotta have another cigarette

—Merle Travis and Tex Williams

Here is more proof that second-hand smoke is more dangerous that smoking. Someone threw a lit cigarette out while driving down our road. It got the neighbor ranch pasture on fire. Our contractor spotted the fire. Ralph says he didn’t do anything about it except talk, which really upset Ralph.

Authorities were called and neighbors alerted. Cathy took care of the horses. All are well. Their house and cabin are fine. All in all, more than a dozen acres burned. That’s a lot of fodder for the animals that will now have to come from somewhere else. But it could have been worse.

Ever since the drought started, there have been lots of fires around here. We’re finally getting some rain, but we’re not safe yet.

Please, if you smoke, extinguish your butts! Don't burn your neighbors’ houses down. As one commenter on Suna’s Facebook page said, “Don’t be a butt.”