Realized it had been a while since I posted anything, but doubt anybody missed it. So, what has happened in the nearly 3 months. Well, my bride and I took a long trip through Canada, entered in the Soo, went to Sudbury than down to Parry Sound and around to Owen Sound than down to Port Huron and home. Get trip! No problems. Right after we finished the Fire Prevention open house, we left for GR and a short visit with a daughter and open house for some friends 50th wedding anniversary. The next day we headed to West Branch, and I remember little of the next two days as I was sick as a dog. Wife drove most of the way and would wake me up as to when to turn. It still is a blur. November brought nothing new, the department continued on a steady course, my deputy chief go into the remodel mode full force and with a little creative budget moving by me, we will get the south wall done out of this years budget and not next years. This week he headed up a work bee to remove all of the wall board, and move all of the blown in insulation that we thought was going into the dumpster and blow it back into the attic. Should help greatly with the heat bill. Must say that on this job he stepped up to the plate and hit it out of the park. Exploring some options as to some improvements to our fleet. Nothing major, just a fix of some design deficiencies that we have noticed. Really mistakes and misses on our part in the specing of the trucks. My wayward firefighter is back on the department. He completed the suspension without a problem, now we will see how he does back with the group. Had one member quit, actually quit before we let him go. Been with us for about a year and a half. He enrolled in the fire academy, as needed to but for reasons I still am not completely clear on choose to drop out. However, since he never told me that he was quiting the class, we paid the $400 dollar tuition for him. It was only after the deadline that we found out he had dropped out. In fact he never told us until I questioned him about missing some of the classes. I came in the station the next day and found his gear and pager in the meeting room along with the books. No note, no nothing. Got to just love 21 year old kids.
Had family Christmas early in December, missed one couple who had tickets to Championship football game, and one son who didn't bother to even acknowledge that we were even having it or send a note that he couldn't be there. The weather has been unseasonably warm and no snow. Helps with the driving on the day job, but know we need the moisture and the snowmoblile business is hurting big time. Got some snow yesterday and last night along with some high winds. Hurt my leg about two weeks ago, and it is not getting better. Swelled up real bad, painful and infected. Doctor put me on antibiotic and did and Ultrasound but there has been any improvement in the last week. If any thing it is actually worse, and I took a week off from work so it would heal Go figure. Went to bad last night around 10PM and woke up this morning about 1AM and couldn't go back to sleep. So figured I get a few things done and this is one of them. Not sure how 2012 will go, but looking back on 2011, it wasn't a bad year, no great disasters and not too many crisis to handle. On ward into the new year.
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