Living with bushfires!

So for those that dont know I live in the bush, well my backyard is national park, The Blue Mountains national park to be exact! For the last 3 weeks there have been fires throughout the mountains. Some small and others large, like the one still burning in the upper mountians.

So we have been on the lookout for incoming smoke in the past weeks and have cleaned out the gutters of leaves, and dad did a massive effort on the weekend to clear some of the leaf litter around the house!!

Hopefully it wont turn out like the fires a couple of years ago around christmas time which almost burnt our house down! The fire came all the way up to the house and the intense heat of the flames cracked every window in the bottom room of our house!! Pretty intense stuff! We were evacuated and told to prepare for the worst! Again fun times! I remember thinking to myself what do you take?? What is so important that you can live without! Photos first came to mind as they are memories of your life and my rabbit that was still alive at the time! Apart from that i couldnt think of much else! Just small trinkets that couldnt be replaced or gifts from people, and some clothes to wear just incase the house did burn down!

My poor dad did loose his beloved garden shed! Golf clubs and all! and my kayak - an inflatable rubber ducky, gone, burn to the ground and melted in a big heap!

So i ask you.... what would you take with you if you had to evacuate your house?


So i live just below all that smoke!