On an MVA call with the Kyle FD 

At first glance you will look at this picture and think "so what".  But I was part of something pretty special and very moving yesterday.    What I saw next gave me the chills.  Standing on the side of the road just me and my camera.  I see a lot of familiar faces.  Then I see  this and more familiar faces.   As they drive by I think "what an honor for two grandsons.  To get to drive their     Grandpa the former Fire Chief from years ago to his final resting place. (Then I went to a different location) As I watched the trucks coming toward the cemetary.  I thought of the service the fire fighters gave the night before at the funeral home.  They ran a last page for their Chief.  There wasn't a dry eye in the house.   The former Chiefs son has been the Chief for some years now.  As a special gift to him (the son).  The firemen suprised him with the trucks for his fathers funeral.  He had no clue, until he came out of the church after the service, that they had done this for him and his family.  Brotherhood is what it is all about. So as everyone watched his grandsons make that last turn  they knew how proud he is of his family.  He passed on the passion of firefighting to several family members.  Including his grandsons who took him on his   last ride.  In the truck he faught fire with when he was a young fireman.  Watching his family (related by blood and by the brotherhood of fire fighting) say good bye was an amazing feeling.  I was glad I got to be part of   this service.  I am glad to be part of this extended  family. I thank God for our   fire fighters.

That wanted to be firemen when they grow up...This is for you.  (Everyone else too)
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  Kay brought me to Busyb this past week, and BB has just not had time this week to go many places with me, but one morning we did go out for breakfast--there were so many choicesto make that I decided not to eat breakfast---But I did meet a new friend, her name > Emily  --she is realllllllly nice.
  BB took me Bowling with her--kept looking at the Scoreboard but did not see anything--her friends told me she was a pretty good bowler--Maybe I'll find out next week.
  You know what else BB did, wanted me to see a   Hairdresser, sure glad she did not have time for me.
Had a special trip today--we went to a Parade--got to meet Wallace and he held me in his lap to watch some of the parade--we saw horses,  Giant Buggy,  Fire Truck, and Santa, (it was raining so Santa tried to stay dry with a umbrella, are you believing that)--oh, and we also saw some Heroes.
  I've just got to tell you this, when BB brought me to her house, you will never guess who was there--a friend who has been with her for over 40 years--I do believe she may be one of my relatives cousin.  Don't you think she looks like me.  
   Now we've got to decide what to do next week.
       

 The weather was fantastic today. So i grabbed my camera and went wandering. I started out near a dry  boat rack.  I just couldn't resist the blue sky. more boat rack  The fire department had their truck out on their drive.  Since my 6 yr old is crazy over firetrucks, I asked if I could take some pictures.  They even pulled out the  ladder truck!  (They must have been bored...)  As the day ended,  clouds began to gather.  It was a great day.

Last week end we made our annual trip to the Firemans Memorial Firefighters from all over the state are there.  We camp while we are there.  We had nine sights between our group.  At camp we played some pretty serious games of polish horseshoes On Friday night they have a silent light parade  Saturday morning is the actual Memorial service.  The wall and the statue are something to see.  I wish I had a better close up to show.  Then we go to the full blown all lights and sirens blaring parade.  There are over 100 entries of  
old firetrucks and new firetrucks. I liked this shot of the gadgets  on new truck.  

Hope you enjoy the little trip...I did.

This is the best theme photo I could think of. These are my work trucks. I drive the red one most of the time.
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People must wonder if firefighters have anything better to do then shoot photos by the number of us on this site.