Our Afternoon Excitement.

You know what's weird?! When your apartment begins to smell like smoke and you have no idea why. You proceed to do a check. Did I leave the oven on? Nope. Did I forget to blow out a candle in living room? Nope. Is someone smoking in the hallway? Nope. Are any of the apartment windows open? Nope. Is a nearby building on fire? Don't think so. Maybe I should go on the balcony and look around. Oh - LOOK! It's not ANOTHER building on fire. IT IS OURS (or at least a WEE part of it)!

For some bizarre reason, there was a small fire happening on the balcony below ours. I immediately tried to call our neighbour. No answer. Tried again. No answer. Tried calling Phil. Nothing. Ran and knocked on the neighbour's door. Nothing. Panicked for five minutes about how to proceed. AH HA - I decided to rally up the Huffho's! Thank goodness I did. Ian had the brilliant idea of pouring water on it to extinguish the flames (hmmm....isn't that the FIRST rule about small fires? I conveniently forgot this small lesson in the midst of the chaos). THANK GOODNESS for those RELIABLE HUFFHO'S!!!!

Ian to the rescue!!!

Phewwf! Thank goodness for neighbours who say "NEVER SAY NEVER to being a hero"!!!

P.S. The neighbour is supposed to be on his way home now. The flames are gone but there is still a lot of smoldering going on and it's making our apartment smell like it's own bonfire! I might as well throw on a hoodie, get out the marshmallows and sing some campfire songs. CHRISTMAS campfire songs that is! BAHA.