Direction,

You have been very generous in your support.

My fire box has never resurfaced since our house almost burned down a couple of years ago.

A volunteer fireman started the fire on our property. He was driving along our road with a smoker in the back of his pick-up. The door on the smoker popped open and he dropped hot coals for miles down our road. The coals started two fires on our property.

I had my dogs and my fire box in my car, and I was parked at the end of the driveway to take off, if the fire got much worse. It took the volunteer fire people at least 20 minutes to get here.

The trucks looked like they were built in the 1940's, and the fire people looked like firemen from the circus, but they got the flames put out. I have not been able to find that box since then. My other important papers are upstairs, and I can't do stairs right now.

Because of living in the middle of nowhere, there are extremely few jobs. I have an MBA, but will be turning 60 next month. I don't have the financial means to move to a hotel.

I have made a list of other options. I very few options within 100 miles. All of my options are at least 1,000 miles away.

We also only have one vehicle at this point, so I don't have a means of escape.

There are so many things that would have to be coordinated.

Just thinking and planning on how I would do this is proving to be therapeutic at this time.

EJ