Arson by the Gingerbread man.

Yesderday Skyeler, Morgan, Me, and a bunch of Kavans friends went out to the very back of our backyard to blow up this HUGE gingerbread castle that some friends of ours made. Skyeler was recording it wanting to make a movie from it and they went out and bought the little army guys that are like the ones from toy story so that they could be protecting the castle from invasion.

Well the blowing up part was cool. A little slow but cool since we only had blackcats and a few m-80's and had to light them one by one but the job still got done. We had some awesome big explosions throwing gingerbread every where and some that only blew frosting off of it. At the end Skyeler put gasoline on it has we just watched it burn / melt while recording the last little bit of the film.

After we all got done I told Sky that he needed to take care of it since I really didn't want the dog to get into it eat the left overs and get ash everywhere. So we all came in and I started to give Peanut a bath since he had basically been rolling around in the mud / snow.

Around 1:00ish this morning I could still smell the fire and was thinking really the smell is going to last this long. Then I kept hearing the dog bark and bark and was thinking gee I probably should go put that shock collar on him so he doesn't wake people up. Well a little while later around 1:30ish Sky thought he heard someone knocking on the door upstairs so he went up and came back down saying the old dog house that is behind the shed is on Fire!! Skyeler and I hurried and got some shoes and jackets on and went out back. There were huge flames coming up and around the shed and some Firemen were already there checking stuff out. (the dog house was a old one that Chris made for Peanut when they first got him, so if your thinking it was our nice one we just made it isn't.)

As we were watching things I turned to Skyeler and asked him exactly what he did with the gingerbread castle. He said they put a lot of snow on it put put everything out, and then in order to keep it away from the dog he put it on top of the old dog house by the shed and then put more snow on it. Needless to say it was still warm or there were still fireworks in it or something because we had quite the flames. By this time it was probably a good 10 hrs after we had played with it.

Well the Firemen were rushing to get the hose back there and sadly enough by the gate there was a TON of ice so they kept slipping and just made it difficult for them but they got the hose there and started to put stuff out. They had asked us if there was anything in the shed and there was a couple gas tanks and other such things. So everyone was worried about some kind of big explosion. We had a couple people come and ask Skyeler questions about what happened and he told them the story about the dumb gingerbread castle and that they had put TONS of snow on it to put everything out. As the Firemen were on their way out they said that they would keep an eye on it tonight and one guy joked that it was Arson by the gingerbread man. I guess the gingerbread man wasn't to happy that we distroyed his castle.

After all is said and done with it was around 3 ish or a little before, before we went back downstairs to get ready for bed again. This morning we went out to look at the damage that was done and it doesn't look good. Lots of stuff is meleted and ruined in the shed. (dumb tin shed) and of course on the side the dog house and everything that was under it was compteletely distoryed. Pics will eventually follow. Again i'm not sure where I put the cord that goes to the computer to the camera so it might be a while.

I'm just glad that nobody was hurt. Our dog was shaken up because of the lights and all the people showing up. (Peanut is really scared of the lights, I was taking him for a walk once and a cop car with his lights zoomed passed us and Peanut did a 360 jump in the air as the car passed. HE HE it was SOOOOO funny.) But once I comforted the dog he just kinda sat in the chair not knowing what was going on. I am also glad that people can't sleep at 1:00 am and that some passerby who was on a walk around that time had called 911. I also feel really bad for Skyeler cause he feels horrible about everything. Ya there are proably other things we could have done to keep the dog away from the burnt gingerbread house but it was an accident and nobody knows what will happen. But I am glad that nothing more happened and that it didn't get anywhere near the house.