StraightAhead

I didn’t mention Ruff, who is also in that picture. She is a great border collie who is on in years and has arthuritis pretty badly. Her partner’s name was Tumble but he is gone.

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Originally uploaded by Memphis Joe.
I needs me a dog. This is one of the dogs that we met and hiked with when we took our canadian rocky trip. She was great in every way. A good bear dog, among other things. I miss having a dog, but i don’t miss the loss of freedom that [...]

We went up to Huntsville this afternoon to attend a reception for two old friends of ours that we used to go to church with. They are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. That’s a pretty awesome thing to achieve , I think. We used to run around with their daughter and her husband and their [...]

I will have been away from work for 22 day as of this coming wednesday. It all started because of a sinus infection from a big allergy attack, so i took two sick days off. I had already put in for two vacation days prior to that. Those two was the next shift after the [...]

There’s been some interest in posts i’ve done concerning Fire Department stuff, so I will probably be doing more of those. Maybe that could be a niche for me to fill, hope so.

Firemen get a lot of time off, or it seems so. This is mainly because when they are at work they work 24 hour shifts. There are all kinds of combinations of these 24 hour shifts. When I was on the large fire dept. in Tennessee that I belonged to for 7 years we worked [...]