Just how dry is it in Pamville?

Any ideas I might have had for this week’s column were immediately erased in the moment I realized my home was not going to burst into flames, burn to the ground and start a wildland fire that obliterated the Hi-Line.

I’m sure you can imagine the degree of my elation.

This feeling was topped by a jumbled free-for-all kind of emotional brawl as events played out Tuesday.

I had some clothes drying in the dryer that morning and I needed to get them swapped out for the last load of wet clothes so they’d be dry early. Cheap old trailer houses get hot in 100-degree temps, even with an ai...