I was sitting in my chair reading and someone drove in our driveway and started honking. The mail lady does that sometime so I thought I had a package, probably some bicycle parts I had ordered. I got up to retrieve my package and a lady had come to the door that I didnt recognize, and she was yelling “fire”!! I looked up and the grain field next to our house was on fire and it was burning pretty good and it was moving toward our house. I went in and yelled at Patty and Seth and we started moving the cars out in the orchard in the green watered grass. I got one of my heavy coats off the back porch and went out to my greenhouse and put it in my 300 gallon fish tank and got it soaking wet. The electricity had just gone out so we had no water to use. I went out and started whacking the fire with my wet coat. I was making a pretty good dent in it, and was pretty sure I could save the house though I was most worried about my 1949 Ford pickup. I saw Charles Ingles do it on an episode of “Little House on the Praire”, and he saved everything. The fire trucks started showing up so I didn’t have to save the house by myself. Wasn’t to long before the firefighters and trucks had it all out. There were trucks from Jefferson, Marion, Stayton, Scio, Crabtree, Tolbot and Aumsville. I always like a little excitement and this was a great addition to an otherwise boring day. As I was whacking on the fire with my wet coat I was thinking, now if the wind picks up and I can’t keep it back from the house and it and everything in it burns, what will be our next step? I was sort of creating a plan of action for ourselves in my head while I whacked away. I was quite impressed with the clarity and the calmness of my thinking, and I recognized that emergencies tend to kick your brains into high gear. Now everything is back to normal and I am sitting in my chair yawning feeling quit bored.