what i would save if there was a fire

about five years ago, i nearly burned the house down when some candles that i thought were very far away from the curtains turned out not to be. thanks to a little bitty sabin, who said, "mama, den is burnin'" and the fact that i'd just given her a bath and had a plastic bathtub full of water at hand, i put the fire out before it had done too much damage. and we got a new floor upstairs out the deal from the insurance company, so, as ma ingalls would say, "all's well that ends well." i try not to think about the fact that it was about 10 more seconds from being too on fire for me to put out, so we won't really go there.

but ever since, i have thought about what i would try to save if there was a fire. and what comes to mind every time is our red smeg refrigerator. if it weren't full of various incubating life forms, i would also throw a whole bunch of other stuff inside of it before dragging it out of the house with my superhuman strength.

see this picture over on across ø/öresund as well. it's red week!

i love that refrigerator so much so that when i threw out the idea to husband over dinner that in light of global warming and rising sea levels, we consider living on a boat instead of getting a farm property, he said, what is the one thing you'd want from the house, since you'd only be able to have one thing on the boat and i immediately, without hesitation, said the smeg. (dang that was a long sentence.) it's beautiful. bright. shiny (mmm, shiny). it's red. its rounded, retro curves are just totally lovely (note mini-lesson in it's/its usage). if we move, it's coming with us. and yes, i stuck those frogs on it with that blue tack substance (so as not to harm the shiny surface). aside: at our house, we refer to blue tack as consultant snot, by the way.


anyway, back to what i would throw inside it before dragging it outside...

: : the requisite boxes of pictures from my time in the balkans and the early days of our relationship
: : my macbook pro
: : my iMac or at the very least the Time Capsule (so I'd have the 34,000 pictures i've taken in the past year)
: : the nikons
: : rolleicord and rolleiflex
: : a little box of treasures from when sabin was a baby - she was born 10 weeks early and i saved some of the tiniest clothes she had (they were really tiny, she weighed 1500 grams)
: : that picture of husband building his first structure
: : my blankie

have you thought about what you would save if there was a fire?