Is Something…Burning?

Indeed, something was burning on our stovetop today. Tim had put some oil in a skillet and was waiting for it to warm up. He went back to his computer and promptly forgot all about it. Next thing I know there’s a flash of light in the kitchen, Daisy is staring in that direction, and there’s smoke gathering in that area. When I made it into the kitchen, there were some pretty serious flames coming out of the skillet. Tim covered and smothered the fire and took the skillet outside. Unfortunately the house was already full of smoke. I had to hang up the phone (I’d been talking to my mother) and put Lena in our bedroom, which luckily had been closed before the fire and had clean air. I put Daisy’s harness on and put her on the leash while Tim and I worked on opening doors and windows and turning on fans. Soon we had a current running through the house, which started clearing the smoke, but it was a while till the air didn’t make me cough anytime I stepped inside the house. Daisy and I used the time to take out the recycling and say hi to our neighbor’s dog. So that was our adventure for the day. And Tim ended up microwaving his dinner.