The machine shop was gorgeous - everything a machinist (amateu r or professional) could want. He must have done some truly impressive work. We watch the news and tsk tsk over the fires and loss of homes, far removed from the tragedy, until it touches someone we can connect with, however distant. Amazing that his home actually survived. His comment about living in an ashtray is so approps. Most everyone can remember the Yellowstone fire of - gah 30 years ago????. It devastated the first national park. I went for a visit about 20 years after the fire. The evidence of mass destruction was still evident. Mountainsides of b lack matchsticks reaching for the sky. Still, up close on the ground were pine trees, about eight feet tall. It will take beyond his lifetime for the black forest to recover. So sad.