Right Now!

[Rougarou]

Looks like our pasture lessors may start teaching again,....time to raise the rent

[roadscholar]

Right now.

 

[Rougarou]

[Rougarou]

Hmmm

 

[TEWKS]

5 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

Hmmm

Am I seeing what the Hmmm is about or....

 

[TEWKS]

Started this in another thread that it didn’t really belong in. (unless you were hanging out around the virtual fire pit ) This was yesterday but the note on the frame says it was 1960.   
 

 

Third row second from the right Paul Mahoney came to work on his 65th birthday and the Chief had to tell him to go home, you don’t (can’t) work here anymore.  He was a funny dude, he visited the station almost daily up until his passing in 2007. He wasn’t much of a talker unless he liked you. He’d give me a grunt every now and again on his visits so I think he was warming up to me. He’s still around the station.

 

edit

While I’m blabbing I may as well throw in The Big One back in 1972. William McAllister pictured bottom row, second from left unfortunately lost his son who was a call firefighter at the gas explosion in the link.

 

One to the right of him was Hilary McMahon. Early in my career I transported him to the hospital for an illness (can’t remember now) but man could he could Jabber about the old days on the department. Funny I just met his daughter during a smoke alarm inspection (when you sell) the other day. He sure did pass on the gift to gab. Very nice though, she really loved and missed her dad you could tell.

[Rougarou]

11 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

Am I seeing what the Hmmm is about or....

 

Ya and hes like in his upper 80’s

[TEWKS]

3 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

Ya and hes like in his upper 80’s

Probably has plenty of experience with both then... 

[wbw6cos]

....root beer?   What's wrong wit dat?

[TEWKS]

44 minutes ago, wbw6cos said:

....root beer?   What's wrong wit dat?

Maybe it’s a Rootin Tootin Shootin Root Beer!  

[wbw6cos]

Yippie-ki-yay, .......................

[wbw6cos]

This is more appropriate for Bama John's Tennessee bird population thread, but it is happening now.

 

Feast your eyes on our latest edition to the front porch:  3 out of 4 hungry Purple Finch chicks.  Momma has been out and about gathering food and they sure get hungry.  Cute little fuzzy heads!

 

 

[TEWKS]

41 minutes ago, wbw6cos said:

 

 

 

[Rougarou]

4 hours ago, wbw6cos said:

....root beer?   What's wrong wit dat?

 

Well, he had at least two.  Across from us, and I know they had to see the old man, were two of Stokes county's finest members of the Sheriff's department.  I just thought it odd that the old guy was thrown a few down while carrying.

[TEWKS]

18 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

 

Well, he had at least two.  Across from us, and I know they had to see the old man, were two of Stokes county's finest members of the Sheriff's department.  I just thought it odd that the old guy was thrown a few down while carrying.

Probably nothing going on to be concerned with but, I’d imagine some old “self preservation” instincts came rushing to the surface especially having your grand boy with you. 

[Rougarou]

23 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

Probably nothing going on to be concerned with but, I’d imagine some old “self preservation” instincts came rushing to the surface especially having your grand boy with you. 

 

Slight spidey sense, but this be Stokes county and alot of people carry fairly regular, just thought it odd, but, then again, I've seen a couple of the circle track cars drive down main street, so strange things do happen in this little country town.

[TEWKS]

A pretty good sized brushfire earlier today for us east-coasters.  Good thing for the RR tracks, it worked as a fire break.
 

 

The Great Swamp has a lot of fuel and no real access so it could have been interesting.

 

Smoke

[ESokoloff]

21 hours ago, TEWKS said:

A pretty good sized brushfire earlier today for us east-coasters.  Good thing for the RR tracks, it worked as a fire break.
 

 

The Great Swamp has a lot of fuel and no real access so it could have been interesting.

 

Smoke

Not right now (though the fire fight is still on), but about 23 hrs ago......

 

The Palisades Fire

 Odd to see Fog & Fire simultaneously. 
Wildfires have become a year round issue here in SoCal

[TEWKS]

That’s probably pretty manageable for them guys  but, it would be unimaginable in size for a lot of us east coast firefighters. We just don’t see those monster fires here! If you spied the vid I posted the black smoke was from some old scattered R/R ties along the tracks.

[ESokoloff]

1 hour ago, TEWKS said:

That’s probably pretty manageable for them guys

Well they’ve been slow in putting it out.  
It started Friday @ about 10:00pm (arsonist )

We’ve been in June Gloom conditions so it’s quite surprising to see such a large scale wildfire.   

 

About 4:00 pm Saturday it flared up & they called in the Big Boys (fixed wing) to lay down  Phos-Chek lines as it was heading towards structures in the Canyon (Topanga). 
That assault apparently didn’t last long due to visibility but the helo assault continued. 
Early this afternoon the weather must have changed a bit because the Big Boys were once again called in.  
 

 

[ESokoloff]

1 hour ago, TEWKS said:

If you spied the vid I posted the black smoke was from some old scattered R/R ties along the tracks.

I did see the thick dark black smoke in the vid. 
 

Reminded me of a Desert race smoke bomb start from the 70’s.  

A pile of old tires & 5 gal of gas marked the start of the race & course as the wide starting field narrowed down.  

 

[roadscholar]

At the CADS meeting tonight. 

 

 

 

A t-shirt for ESokoloff

 

 

And one for Rougarou. 

 

[LBump]

On the way to Torrey 

[TEWKS]

See the problem?  

 

[Rougarou]

14 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

See the problem?  

 

 

Nope

[wbw6cos]

Is that one of them GS wannabes?

[TEWKS]

Funny after discovering this little problem...I got on the interstate and poof, it magically went away! 

[wbw6cos]

Well at least it did not route you down some rail road tracks.  

[Rougarou]

53 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

Funny after discovering this little problem...I got on the interstate and poof, it magically went away! 

 

Take the skirt off Nancy!!!

[TEWKS]

A big fire today.

 

 

[LBump]

Big rally going on here. 40 cars five days.

Where is Bill...?? 👍

[roadscholar]

Ooh nice, unfortunately not there. 

 

Thanks for the tip Larry, looks interesting I have one air-cooled car left an '81 Targa I need to get running but just viewed the pricing structure, dang a bit out of my league. Ya know, I was never into those group drives that much anyway.   

 

http://ramshornrally.org/

[Red]

3 hours ago, TEWKS said:

A big fire today.

 

 

Aye. looks like what we call a black wet spot.  Objective being protecting exposures.  

[BamaJohn]

5 hours ago, TEWKS said:

A big fire today.

 

 

A big THANKS to all firefighters!   In my neighborhood, they're all volunteers, and they appreciate donated items like an air compressor (for maintenance) and GPS for the truck, or an offer to help with administration duties.  Pat:  there's no donut shop within 30 miles, so I can't drop in with a box of donuts...wonder if I should offer to bring some BBQ to one of their weekly meetings?

[John Ranalletta]

9 hours ago, TEWKS said:

A big fire today.

 

 

 

Thanks, Pat.

 

I bet those plastic and flakeboard apartment houses are pure tinder.

[TEWKS]

Once the fire got into the attic area and almost like clockwork, the wind picked up, it was then deemed a defensive fire. Doesn’t look like a save but the other buildings are pretty close. One close call for these two, while pulling ceilings, a whole section came down luckily with the bulk of it missing them.

 

 

[LBump]

Found Bill's next car! 

[TEWKS]

Chasing a few stray cattle out on the back forty.  
 

[wbw6cos]

Little ride for lunch.  

[TEWKS]

A little bit ago I rode over to the Harley dealership to see if they had a copy of Whip’s Pan America.  Nope, only the Creamsicle which I had already looked at. Harley don’t seem to give the dealers much info on what they are getting. The truck shows up and surprise, here’s what you get. 

 

On my way back home.

 

[TEWKS]

Somebody just finished the last obstacle (literally) in becoming a Tewksbury Firefighter. I mentioned knee pads but sometimes, you just gotta learn the hard way.  I think he gets it now! 

 

[Rougarou]

5 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

Somebody just finished the last obstacle (literally) in becoming a Tewksbury Firefighter. I mentioned knee pads but sometimes, you just gotta learn the hard way.  I think he gets it now! 

 

 

Builds up calluses,.....and,...and, ....and, the boy be young!!

 

If you recall from my tire change video,......I had a "pad" down there,....a retired outside seat cushion,....got a few of those in strategic locations.

[chrisolson]

Hard to see, but curled up in the transport bucket is a 2 foot (approximately)  rattler.  One of the smaller ones we've see around these parts. 

 

[Rougarou]

4 minutes ago, chrisolson said:

Hard to see, but curled up in the transport bucket is a 2 foot (approximately)  rattler.  One of the smaller ones we've see around these parts. 

 

 

 

uhhhh, snakes,......shiver,......uhhhhh

[MikeB60]

Chillin with LuLu and Ginger!  Lulu is two day post op from ACL surgery and still has a Fentnal patch, lala land for sure! 

[Hosstage]

Mmm...,  Fentanyl....!

[MikeB60]

Sorry, the Vet says she wants the patch back!

[TEWKS]

it’s only a toy…gun. 

[wbw6cos]

What is with the tongue?  

[TEWKS]

She’s thinking really hard.