22 Years Ago Today...

[bjarvis]

...my house burned to the ground.

I was in high school at the time, just beginning a new semester in grade 10. I came home with a typewriter I signed out from school so that I could work on re-writing & editing articles for an edition of the school newspaper, and arrived at the farm to find a black smoking crater where my house used to be.

Undaunted, I set up the typewriter in the barn with my notes and completed the newpaper edition on time that night.

Comments

[ebearboston.livejournal.com]

Wow! But February in Canada, it must have been cold. Even in the barn.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Well, I had burning embers to keep me warm... :-^

[ebearboston.livejournal.com]

Goan!

[ebearboston.livejournal.com]

Er... um... that should have been groan....

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

What an experience! Outstanding dedication for that age too.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

It's not like had anything else to do that particular night. :-)

The good news of the story is that we were already in the process of building a new house nearby so while all of us were suddenly homeless --us kids were boarded by various neighbours in the community-- the insurance money vastly accelerated the construction. We were all back together again in the new house by April.