Sunday, November 16, 2008

Fire!!!!

Fire - I love fire. There is nothing better than a good camp fire. Sitting around roasting marshmallows and eating s'mores. The conversation around a camp fire is always fun and sometimes deep. Watch the fire is mesmerizing. I love poking it with a stick and watching the sparks rise from the fire and fad out. Listening to the fire is calming. The snap, crackle, pop of the wood as it slowly turns into ash. Fire is a great motivator sometimes when a pop occurs followed by an amber being shot out of the fire and landing on or close to your shoe. People learn how fast they can move.

We use the word - fire - in allot of different ways. "Light a fire under that guy" is used to get someone to move faster. Fire in someones eyes usually means anger or insanity. The fire of a diamond refers to its brilliance or light. The raging fire of a fever (Shakespeare) and someone is really, really sick. Sorry Darren I know how much you hate Shakespeare. In the army we would like them to cease fire. Lightening is described as fire from the sky. Fire is also to make things stronger. Clay in a kiln - is fired and made stronger. Stories of adventure fire the imagination. When you are excited you are all fired-up or on fire. When we make a mistake we miss fire, and Jack Bauer will open fire on the bad guys.

We listen for the fire alarm. Our sun is a fire ball. We get out of the way of the fire engine. Some of us own a fire arm. Fire crackers are fun to light on the forth of July. My kids favorite family home evening was when we practiced our fire drills. The fire eaters in a circus are just plan nuts. To be a fire man is very honorable. But if you have a fire sale it is because someone had a real fire. I love fireworks. My favorite really. Every one should own a fire extinguisher. Matt and I buy fire wood to go into our fire place almost every weekend.

Then there are fire sides. Meeting at church or in a home where you could learn about fire and brimstone, or maybe something else. Moses was led out of Egypt by a pillar of fire at night. Abinadi was killed by King Noah by fire. We learn of other prophets being saved from the fire. And in Matthew 3:11 "...he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:". I can go on and on but I won't.

Fire is great and then it is scary. Like Saturday morning - I wake up and go into the dinning room. Matt is at an in service meeting at work. Saturday mornings are not for work - anyway - I turn on the light in the dinning room and POP. I hear a loud pop followed by some crackling. I look up and the ceiling light fixture is on fire. UGH!!!!!! I think - fire is not suppose to be coming out of a light bulb. I turn off the light and the fire goes out. YEA!!!!! Now I am really awake. Fire is no fun on your ceiling. My next thought is - darn I should have taken a picture. Dumb - I know - but I did think that. Then I went and made sure I knew where the extinguisher was. I was right!! This is the burnt fixture - not the greatest picture - tuff - it is what I got.

Matt putting up the new fixture.

This is our new dinning room light. Like it? All because of a fire that wasn't bad - just a little unnerving.

5 comments:

Mandy said...

I was enjoying your article on fire. Did that all just come out of your head? I would have had to research it. That was really quite clever AND informative. I love that the first thing you thought was to take a picture. That's why blogs are so great, I think we are more motivated to take a picture because we think about putting it on our blog. I really like the new fixture! You should put one in the living room that matches. Maybe one you actually wouldn't mind turning on. Just a thought.

Oh, and way to think of turning the light off. I think I may have just freaked out and left the light on, because who would think turning it off would turn off the fire? Well done!

Liz and Grant said...

That's pretty scary. Good thinking on just "turning it off", I thought you could only do that with fireplaces:)I love the new light fixture too, we are missing one in our kitchen and always talked about putting a new one up, but now that we'll hopefully be moving soon it just doesn't bother us as much

Darren and Laura said...

totaly agree on the loving fire thing!!! and i agree with Mandy on the putting one that matches in the living room.

i just wish i could have seen the fire comming out. if it were me i would have probably got the fire extinguisher and then turned the light back on. that way i could see if i could turn the fire back on and off. yes i am crazy that way :)

Campbells said...

I really like the new fixture. Looks really good
love nik

Unknown said...

Wow! as usual your blog was awesome. I never knew you had such profound thoughts in your head, untill you started blogging.