I think I’ve posted this before, but who’s complaining? Hunting season around here starts around now, when the last of the tourists and summer residents leave.

Some clerk’s joke – putting Bambi DVDs in a sale stand for some action film.

I’m the Forest Fire Warden for my village, the person (in theory at least) that’s in charge of fighting any forest fires. I am trained and certified in that – though the training was a joke, I have little actual firefighting experience, and this village has very little firefighting equipment. But I did work with several others in late August to put out the forest fire that started when a house about a kilometer down the road burned down.