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RANCHO BERNARDO ---- The food, laughter and happy conversations Sunday afternoon were in stark contrast to the sight of the plain wood photo frame where a house once stood for a survivor of the 2007 Witch Creek wildfire.
But for Robin Kaufman of Rancho Bernardo, the dozens of people who came to her "frame signing party" were "making it start to feel more like a home than a house," she said, smiling.Frame signing parties have become a new tradition among North San Diego County survivors of the deadly 2003 Cedar fires and 2007 Witch Creek fire who lost their homes.
Once families begin to rebuild their houses, the completion of the bare photo frame work instigates a party attended by friends, relatives and fellow fire survivors who inscribe cheerful messages on the bare wood photo frame .
"May your new home bring you abundant health and joy," read one handwritten message on a wood beam at Kaufman's house-to-be.
"Many new and happy beginnings," read another note written in ink on the wood by one of about 70 people who attended Sunday's party.
Next to a space where a paper sign indicated a combination laundry room and grooming room for Kaufman's four dogs would be located, someone had written, "You lucky dogs."
Kaufman, a speech therapist who is active in several community organizations, lost her home in October 2007, as did many of her neighbors.
"The worst thing was I lost everything. I lost my history," Kaufman said photo frame about the destruction of family pictures and heirlooms.
"The best thing was, I survived, my family survived, my dogs survived. You move on. You make new memories," she said. "This framing party is part of making new memories."
Among her guests was Karen Reimus of San Diego, who lost her Scripps Ranch home in the 2003 Cedar Fire and rebuilt it in 2005.
Reimus said the photo frame signing parties were first held by her Scripps Ranch neighbors after the 2003 fires.
Reimus initially was a volunteer and now is a part-time employee of United Policyholders, a nonprofit consumer protection agency that aids wildfire survivors with presentations, interactive Web sites and other resources.
Survivors of the 2003 fires frequently work with survivors of the 2007 fires, and also often join each other at frame signing parties, Reimus said.
In fact, Reimus has adopted a kind of shorthand, using the labels of "oh-threes" or "oh-sevens" to differentiate families photo frame at each event. "How else do we tell each other apart?" she asked.
Kaufman praised survivors of both fires for supporting her, and also North County residents who were not directly affected by the fires who would often stop by with photo frame food baskets or offers of help, she said.