Counting down.

Tyler is home!!!! He showed up by surprise on Saturday afternoon. Apparently when there is a forecast for 7 days of rain they don't keep out of state hotshot crews around in the hopes a fire might start up. He was only gone for a week this time, and due to some misfortunes with their vehicles, it looks like they might be here for a bit.
Tyler has been a hotshot for 3 years, starting the year we met and started dating. The first year Tyler was almost smashed by a rolling boulder let loose by a helicopter dropping a Bambi bucket of water above them on the mountain.
The second year Tyler was almost hit by a rolling boulder let loose by a helicopter dropping a Bambi bucket of water above them. Unfortunately, instead of hitting him, it hit the guy next to him and sent him rolling down the mountain, almost over a cliff, and broke his leg.
So this year I have been very edgy waiting for this season's disaster, and Tyler has gotten pretty sick of me asking him to watch out for falling rocks. I was pretty afraid that the third time would be the charm, and I would lose him.
Well, the waiting is over! On their way back to Utah from Oregon, Tyler's rig blew a fuel line. (Not knowing much about cars, I don't know if you can actually "blow" a fuel line, but something happened to the rig that made gas leak on the road). The crew boss decided to press on since they were only a few hours away. It was raining hard and they went around a corner on the freeway and all the gas which had coated the tires by then made the crummy (technical term for their rig) spin out and they hit the median. The rest is sort of blurry for me, I know somehow they got a ride the rest of the way, and somehow the crummy got taken to the shop. the good news in all of this is, Tyler's season three near death experience has already happened, and now we are home free! Unfortunately for the crew, all three of their crummies have something wrong so they are sort of stranded for the time being. Their lemons are my lemonade!