Okay, so the subject is a little more frightened than I was, but it still doesn’t change the fact that I had a rather unpleasant awakening today.
So I woke up this morning, and could have sworn that I smelled burning wood. Yeah. Not good. I wander out in to the backyard and lo and behold, there’s smoke wafting upward and away from the side of the house.
Eek.
I grab the garden hose and completely douse the entire place with water. I mean, I completely drenched the house, the bushes, the ground, the patio, … everything!
When I’m done and there’s a huge puddle of water standing in the previously steaming ground, I can still see smoke creaking out the sides. I’m beginning to wonder if it has turned in to an underground fire (NOT good). So I grab a rake and upturn all of the ground and mud and churn up the first five or six inches of soil as much as possible. I spray it down again and leave an even larger puddle.
It’s been about half an hour since then, and no more smoke… but I’m waiting.
Now to figure out how the fuck all of that happened….