Muse2NOPharaoh said:

the sea is a big consolation - that's for sure!

oh my god!! You live by the water?!??! I'm a fucking beach bum. One of my dreams is to just live on the beach.

DynamicSavior said:

very weird, but this is an old dream of mine that didn't come true until my house burned down and i was FORCED to find a new place to live for a few months!

isn't life odd sometimes?

Heiress said:

sure is. I love love LOVE the beach. When I die, I want to come back as some kind of beach animal.

DynamicSavior said:

you would like that old french movie, "the big blue." at the end, the guy goes off to live with the dolphins... he's kind of a human dolphin himself.

i love the sea all year round, and in ANY weather conditions. there's been some big storms since we've been here this winter, and it's rather thrilling to see the sea go all wild like it does...

very striking pictures heiress... i am so glad you made it out alright

and i can just imagine keeping a scorched bit of rock or something
in amongst all the life in your backyard
and using that as a memorial to your kitty.
kitty didn't make it out but he (she?) made sure that you did

emm said:

aww, that would be so sweet!

im so sorry you had to go through this

Oh how horrible for you. Those pics make me sad, but I am glad you posted the one of you and your daughter, you both look so happy.

When my Grandmother died, there was a fire in her house after, and what was left from the disaster, stunk of smoke. Its so hard to rid the smell. and the little things I got from my Grandma were fire damaged.

My thoughts are with you
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emm said:

That's what really got me... Kochka could save our lives, but we couldn't manage to save hers... She was always one for telling us things, but big noises frightened her.

I like the rock idea. I might have to make some artwork of some kind though... let's see what I come up with.

nakedpianoplayer said:

hey thanks... do you have fire alarms installed? we didn't. we will in the future!

keep the kiddies safe and close to you...

REDFEATHERS said:

OH, that smell... I am looking forward to the day I can stop gagging on ashes.

Oddly enough, I still have some things that already survived a fire at my great-grandmother's farm... garnets, crystals, and a ceramic statue of a cat. She's the original "Kochka."

It is, at least, a wonderful thing to know that you and your family are safe and beginning to rebuild.

...and, even better to know that you are spending this time together at the seaside

Ottensen said:

it's definitely a time for healing. rebuilding in many ways, let's just say.

Nice to see the face behind the avatar!

I hope everything works out good so you'll be able to live there soon again!

Montpellier I've been there! I love the south of France!!

I know the smell and feel of soot all too well... (this is the first I've seen of the pics...I can see them only from the computer at school)
I'm glad that you're now in the process of rebuilding your lives.
You and your daughter are beautiful!

I've never suffered a fire, but these pics darned sure make me respect it! I am SO glad you and the family are OK, Heiress.

What was the cause of the fire, anyway?
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HowComeYouDontCallme said:

Everybody loves Montpellier! I'm here for the beach and the American Library. And, oh yeah, my husband is from here.

applekisses said:

Thank you. I hope you feel like you're getting things back together somewhat, on your side... I'm thankful that your cats were OK... they are your family, aren't they? Our cats sure were ours... (yeah, we have another who seems to have run off, I might have already said this, so maybe we'll see her sometime again?? )

I don't know about you, but that fine soot gets right into my lungs and makes me sick everytime I have to deal with it. And it was JUST YESTERDAY that I finally got those papers dry... Over 2 months after the fact.

Anyway, I think that I can now breathe a sigh of relief.

Lammastide said:

Shoddy electrical work. Not that it was old or needed updating, either... The entire house had been redone about 5 years ago...

Some official organism came to investigate - they found anomalies. They said it was definitely the electical work, but somehow it's too hard to prove that the former owner (who calls himself an electrician, by the way) was truly negligent. The neighbors beg to differ, when you hear their stories about him... I think he'd better never come back to our neighborhood.