Last week there was a grass fire one exit down from mine, and there was a fire south of I-30 at I-35 when I left for Mom's house on Saturday. And tonight I drove down Pioneer Parkway to go to Taco Cabana and passed an area (luckily for me, quite a number of blocks south) that smelled very burned, but as it was dark I couldn't see where.

I am a wee bit nervous, since there's pretty much nothing but dry grass and trees to the west of me once you pass Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and Sams. I'm hoping they'll serve as a sort of mercantile firebreak if there's another grass fire.