grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!

I am sitting here waiting and waiting to get a fire call. it is frustrating to be sitting around while you know that there is work out there that needs to be done and you want to get in on some of it. I have no prob sitting on my rear all winter but this is day #3 in a row off and I am running out of things to keep me busy.

We all thought we were available for fires yesterday but it turns out we weren't. It would have been nice to have been informed of this so we could have gone farther away than 2hours but whatever.

Last night some of the guys and I watched Clockwise Orange or at least that is what I think it was called. anyway it was this way weird movie from the early 70's very weird. I am not sure what I thought of it.

Well hopefully we get a fire call soon otherwise I may be living in one of your garages this winter so that I don't have to live in a cardboard box cuz I haven't made anymoney.

Holy Marijuana!!

So where I work has one of the largest ilegal pot productions in the country and that is because there are a lot of steep drainages and other places the growers can hide it. But the park has a huge force that is there to try to find the gardens and then get rid of them. They Find the gardens. law enforcement goes in they cut down all the plants, haul it out and then burn it somewhere.

Anyway before we left for our last run the engine crew came down with a truck of ours and said there was a tarp in the back that we could keep. So I tell my boss and he tells me to go ahead fold it up and store it with all the others. So I walk down to the truck start to pull the tarp and notice this smell........I was like I smell pot wtf so I pull the tarp more and all these leaves start falling out and I can see where there is residue on the tarp. Im like what did they use the truck for. So I fold it up tease some of the guys with it and come tp the conclsion that they used our truck for a drug bust. Turns out there were a lot o plants in this garden.

So that was interesting. Then we head up to N. Cal to a fire and Northern CA is known for having a large production of legal marijuana for medicinal use. So there was a spike camp (which is a fire camp that isnt the main camp of the fire but has food, portapottys ect) in this town way up the mountian so we drive up there and our boss tells us pretty much everyone in the town has a perscription for pot and sure enough it was growing in just about everybody's yards....it was pretty crazy to see

in other things the guy that died in the car accident wasn't on my crew and I didn't really know him that well just met him in passing

I ended up being lazy on my day off and going down to the lake with the wife of one of my bosses. We tuck here little girl sarah down the water and it was tuns of fun. Sarah is almost 2 and loves the water. she is also a very pink baby I will have to get a picture of her to post cuz she is super cute

Tommorow we go back on the board for fires I am hoping to end up in the northwest or montana I have never been on a fire in Montana so I want to go there

Its Been Awhile

But I am back...actually I have been back for a couple of days but haven't had a chance to update. We went up to a fire in Northern CA, which I will talk about later, but ended up leaving our assingment early because a guy that works on the fuels crew in the park was killed in a car accident last week. We came home so that we could attend his memorial service and there is one thing that I ask of everybody.....please please always were your seatbelt. If "Q" had been wearing his seatbelt he could possibly still be here with us rather than ending his life at 22.

Anyway all of you that read this are very important to me and I don't want anything to happen to any of you and days like to day make me kind of sad.

I get tommorow as a paid day off so hopefully I can get some pictures posted. The last run was interesting since we never even saw the fire that we were originally dispatched to. We saw fire came and spike camp and some cold black, but we never even worked a shift. Long story that I will tell later but we did see some interesting stuff which I will talk about when I post pictures

well Ill write more tommorow when it is light out and i can see my computer keys.

One little fire

Well we went to a little fire on Tuesday morning. it wasn't far from here well actually it took a while to drive there but by air miles it wasn't far. There wasn't much excitment except that I felt horrible. There as been some sort of Bug (cold/flu) thing going around our crew which we like to refer to as the hiv and well I just thought I was havinga bad day on mon and feeling sore from lifting weights the day before but on tuesday morning I realized that actually the hiv had hit me and it hit hard. It was kind of like the flu when your body just aches and you can tell you have a fever and you want to curl up and die. Then it turned into sore throat and a cough. but if I was smart I would have taken a day off work but I am not that smart so I toughed it out and felt like I was going down the whole time. but now I am feeling better

well we spent today in station and it is frusrtatin cuz there are a lot of fire burning out there and we want to be fighting them. Hopefully the call will come soon. But if it doesn't I have the next two days off.
well time to go hang out with some of the guys....a beer sounds tasty

Ever had one of those days .......

where all you want to do is cry.

Well today was one of them for me.......it started off when I slept like crap last night and just escalated from there. Nothing seemed to go my way and things just kept frustrating me all day. Then I was missing all of my friends and family and that made things worse. Sometimes I just hate being so far away from everyone and today was one of those days. I really wish that I could just go back to houghton or MN when I always had friends and someone to talk to around...yep that would make my day today.

I just don't know sometimes. I like my job but it is hard being far away. I wish I knew more people out here besides the people I work with but I guess when you work all the time it is hard to go out and meet anyone else. Plus it all guys at work except fot Maura (she helps keep me sane)so that makes days like today even worse since I don't really have anyone to talk to.

Ok enough of me venting. I just needed to get a couple of things out.