Tom Jones put it best:

"hold tight wait till the party's over
hold tight we're in for nasty weather
there has got to be a way
burning down the house"

San Diego is still ablaze in many places. There have been several fires aboard base. For those familiar, there was a fire in and around Camp Horno which caused that camp to be relocated up to San Mateo and for the San Onofre housing to be moved. There was some threat to Camp Margarita (hubby's office) but no buildings were damaged, last I heard. The Wilcox fire threatened the DeLuz area but that's been put out. A fire near the back gate was apparently the result of arson, San Luis Rey housing had to be evacuated and the back gate is still closed.
I heard that there was a fire near the commissary, but I'm not sure if that was Pacific Plaza near me or the one up near San Onofre. The back burns that were set to help deter larger fires did close the 5 for a chunk of the early morning but the interstate has been open since about 10:30am.

The air was much clearer today. The sky was visible and mostly blue, no orange/yellow tinge. There was noticeably less smoke in the air. But most things are still closed and the local officials are still asking people to minimize cell phone and roadway usage.

As a family, we're going STIR CRAZY!!! Well at least the boys and I are. Dear hubby has his Everquest to keep him ever entertained. One wife I know has dubbed it Evercrack, so right, so accurate. The baby keeps looking at his jumperoo and exersaucer and then at me as if to say, "are you serious? Those AGAIN?!" The toddler is just straight up bored. He's had some serious melt downs because he just wants to go outside. We are NEVER home this much. I need to get over myself and let him do some more arts and crafts at home. If I did, he would have had some safety scissors and construction paper here. We could have made some crazy crafts, but we don't so he didn't.
Dear hubby will probably be off work for the rest of the week. Yesterday, it was sort of a nice idea. The prospect of family time was great. I just wish we could have family time somewhere other than the living room with the doors and windows closed! We're just all too on top of one another.
I think tomorrow I will meet up with one of my girlfriends and her kids because we just can't handle it anymore. I hope there is somewhere open for lunch! This is throwing off my entire grocery plan. I wasn't expecting to cook two meals a day for three people! My lists! All messed up! Damn nature! So inconvenient! I really do only like it from a distance.
A bunch of my friends escaped; not because their houses were in risk of burning but b/c of the air quality. Our air has been bad but not horrible. So my ever so practical hubby thinks that there is no need to worry. And he is right, to a certain degree. Our house hasn't been in danger. There isn't any where nearby to go and we'd have to drive past fires to get anywhere good up north and the desert is still hot. But he's not the one having to devise infinite methods to entertain two kids! If everyone else gets to have a fire party, I want one too!
Oh well. I'm here holding down the fort with my one other friends (the one I hope to meet for lunch tomorrow)! Her fiance works at the hospital one base so he can't leave, so she didn't leave either. We're hanging tough (military wife style, not New Kids on the Block style).
Okay, enough for tonight. I'll keep you posted. Email me, use my landline, or text me.