Still thinking about options for slide scanning. Thanks for the suggestions.
I found a few more pages of slides in plastic protector pages. Most are charred beyond use. I'll try to pry the pages apart to save what I can.
Truelove is still over at the homeplace, sorting out metal/burnables, and has a small fire going in the corner of the cellar hole out of the wind. Odd that we must use fire to cleanse the mess left by fire.
My asthma started kicking up so I packed up today's load of charred fabric and pottery pieces and drove back here. Between the smoke and ashes on site and the smoke and filth I have to clean off of anything we salvage I'm having some trouble getting a deep breath. I do not like having the smell of ruin in the apartment, but there's no other way to clean and access the usable remains.
Packets of fabric from various Mudcat friends arrived today; thank you. It's lovely to handle clean, bright new fabric.