Feelin' Hot Hot Hot

We had some pretty big excitement for our neighborhood this weekend. Friday night the apartment building 2 buildings down started on fire. About 8:45pm we heard police sirens in our neighborhood. Now police sirens aren't that rare where we live so I though nothing of it until they stopped VERY close by. I looked up the street and saw a cop car blocking the street. So I went out the front door to see what was going on and saw flames lining the roof of that apartment building. Since the fire department wasnt' there yet people were running up to the police department and giving them their fire extinguishers to help fight the fire. There is something about a fire or tragedy like that that you have to watch. This was no exception. If you add up all the people that I have seen in the neighborhood since we moved, the number would still be shy of the number of people out there on Friday night. There were fire departments from Waunakee, Deforest and Marshall responding along with the Sun Prairie department.

The fire seemed to start in the closet that contains the air conditioning/heating unit and spread into the apartment and the attic. It was very obvious that the fire was in the attic as the siding started to peel off the building and smoke was billowing out of the attic vents. We watched the fire departments saw into the attic and put the fire out. By 10 the fire was out and the crowd had thinned. My mom was spending the night so she took Jackson out for a walk to watch what was going on. We think that he ruined the news coverage that Channel 3 provided because he was doing his growl/bark at the people standing there. Including the news crew.

There still isn't a report of what happened yet. There were some early pictures in the Sun Prairie paper this week. I will have to buy one next week to see what happened.

My Gravy Boat Adventures

This past weekend my mother and I went to the Corelle outlet in Oshkosh. At the outlet store I purchased a gravy boat that matched our dish set. I was very excited about the new gravy boat as I did not have one. I had to use a bowl and a ladle and that just isn't as cool as a gravy boat. I was planning on making a pot roast this week so that I could make gravy to use my new gravy boat. I only had rib roasts and mom told me that those weren't the right cut for a pot roast. So this week while I was at work mom called to say that she brought me the pot roast and we could meet to pick it up. When I got off the phone I told my co-workers about my new purchase and how excited I was and how mom was bringing me this roast. It was open season for teasing. They couldn't believe how excited I was over a stupid gravy boat. The running joke now is that I should start the website mygravyboatadventures.com and just take it places or photoshop my gravy boat into pictures of favorite landmarks. I could make up stories about my gravy boat and things of this nature. I have a hard enough time keeping this website going some days I don't think that mygravyboatadventures.com is going to happen. But for today consider this website, mygravyboatadventures.com.

Here is my new Gravy boat and the fabulous adventure we had tonight with it holding gravy:

Time for Gravy Boat's Close-up

It's dirty work but someone has to do it

As you can see gravy boat is still casual enough for just the two of us but has a skirted saucer to dress up dinner a little bit. All-in-all I believe that this was a smart purchase. Hooray for Gravy Boat!