On Goodreads, this book garners 4 stars out of 5, I'm giving it 6!! I have never done that before, but this one hit the heart strings.
Not only does our grandson live in Edmonton, one cousin lives outside the city in St. Albert, another lives in Calgary. MaryAnn's children also live in Calgary, but Garry's boys live in Medicine Hat and St. Albert. They are all safe, they are doing well and far less concerned than I am. Before you believe the media, these fires are mostly arson!! Jerks that are throwing cigarette butts out car windows, people deciding to burn whatever and the winds take it off to burn the forests.
As people talk about the humans -- who have little respect for the land -- what about the wildlife??? Did you know that people were told they had to evacuate, but could not take their pets??? Well, excuse me, then I don't go.
The story ......
Bella gets away from Lucas and Olivia on a camping trip when they see the largest wildfire in the US bearing down on them. The "tail" she tells us of her survival and the survival of mountain lions is incredible. If all the animals that live day to day in forests survive what mankind has done, they will be lucky. They will be lucky to find food, to find clean water.
Bella tells an incredible story of survival -- of man and beast and well worth a read while fires rage in our country. As I write this 88 fires are raging in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan are also battling blazes.
My "so far" collection of W. Bruce Cameron books. I will own them all -- eventually.
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If you think you had the best black labrador in the world ----- you would be wrong. We did. Her name was Mandy and she lived in our house from 6 months old to 13 1/2 years. She passed peacefully one cold January morning. The biggest heartbreak of my life. We all said never again and that August we adopted Sara, a lab/doberman cross who was the most incredible dog ever. She had her quirks -- she didn't like a canoe, she didn't like swimming, but she made up for that by just being a wonderful companion. After these two wonderful girls we never had another dog.
Speaking of forest fires, this was our sunset last Sunday night with smoke from the fires in Quebec and Norther Ontario. We have a total fire ban in our City and that means everyone!! We are as dry as a bone and Karl actually watered the lawn last night, something we rarely do. Our neighbours' lawns are brown. Canada is a mess. We need rain desperately. Fingers are crossed it comes soon or we are all going out to do rain dances.
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