FReeper Canteen~Tribute To Firefighters~August 3, 2006

The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

wh!!

Luv.....#50!!
Sand.....#100!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

what a gorgeous thread connie
thank you
good evening ma
good evening canteeners and troops
my shift key is not working so bear with me
i have to type in lower case until i can figger out what the heck is going on
i'm in for abit
hugs alla round
ms.b

[AZamericonnie]

Oh no! I hope you all get well real soon. Congrats on the ladder truck. I'm so happy your hubby is enjoying the thread...he & those like him are the reason for posting it!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, alfa....really great pictures. I was a volunteer some years back. We rarely fought wildfires, but we responded to a request really close to town. A tanker made a pass directly over us and radioed to the guys in charge to get us all on the ground, in a certain position before they dropped their load of orange retardant. WOW!

[AZamericonnie]

Earth Wind & Fire~Serpentine Fire

[AZamericonnie]

Hiya Meg...any critters running about? We have the cutest bunch of ground squirrels hanging around right now. They are just precious!

[Kathy in Alaska]

I joined a volunteer department a bunch of years back in California, and when I came to Alaska I was on the volunteer department on the north slope. My first fire was in February and the temp was 10 below. Talk about shocking!! Everything froze including me. Before I joined in sunny California, I had my first experience with fire sirens....where I had come from, that was what the air raid sirens sounded like. Talk about spooked!! One firefighter at a time we eventually all got personal pagers.

[tina07]

lol, thanks for the soup! I never get sick so it's been awful! My husband has bronchitis too, his antibiotic doesn't seem to be working at all, he's been sick since 7/14. Time for a return visit to the doc.

[luvie]

Very cool, Alfa! Thanks for the drive-by fly-by! :D

[basil]

Ping, Mr. FireFighterforFreedom.

Thanks for all you do here in Austin.

[Kathy in Alaska]

good evening, ms b...((HUGS))
no shift key saves the little finger...lol
how ya doing tonight

[luvie]

ms.beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

hugs111111

i'll just join you! hee-hee!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, A, for your service to community.

[AZamericonnie]

Wonderful alfa....thanks ever so much!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

hiya ma
hug
this is terrible
i can't add any question marks or stuff
fuming
ms.b

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Hawaii.....find those socks yet? How much longer do you have to look?

[HiJinx]

My husband has bronchitis too, his antibiotic doesn't seem to be working at all, he's been sick since 7/14.

Smart man...that's too long to be sick with bronchitis.

[AZamericonnie]

thank you ms b.....i'll join your no shift in solidarity...lol

[MS.BEHAVIN]

lol
that post just made my night
hug
ms.b

[tina07]

Wow, 10 below, brrrr. The first fire scene I was on with the ladies aux. was in winter, around 10 above, and my teeth would not stop chattering, then my whole body was chattering. Most of the other ladies were fine, they had more meat on them than me! Couldn't imagine below zero temps.

My inlaws had a siren right by their house, their one dog would howl along with the siren!

My husband WAS the fire call once, 7 yrs. ago. He was in a head-on collision. My then 16 yr. old son rode to the scene on his bike to make sure it wasn't his girlfriend's mother who had just left, only to find it was his father. When I got to the scene, despite the shock and horror (hubby was stuck in his car with live wires across it) I was at ease seeing all his fellow firefighters right there taking care of him. They, and you, are an amazing bunch of people!