Disaster

I looked out the kitchen window last night around 8:00 and saw flames coming from our big old barn up by the gate. After the initial panic and running around like fools, I called 911 while Mike rushed up there to turn out the calves that were shut up in the lot by the barn. Fortunately he got there in time to save the calves, but we weren't able to save the barn. The Edna and Bartlett fire departments both responded and were there really quickly, but it was burning too fast. Our baler, two feed grinder/mixers, about 30 big round bales of good hay, our generator, and a few other small items were inside, but it could have been much worse. No one was hurt, and everything we lost can be replaced. And Mike stayed out of the way and didn't get burned this time. We just have a really big mess to clean up. This was our second barn fire in two years. Maybe we need to start putting smoke alarms in our barns!