RDawson

I carry a foot operated bicycle pump from Walmart. Doesn’t take much space and no battery worries. Don’t know how long it takes to pump up a tire because I’m prepared so I won’t need it.

I have two packs of the high dollar Cottonelle, a case of water, 15# fresh frozen deer steaks, and an endless supply of well water, looking to trade for a low mile RSV or Chevy 4x4. Might throw in some country ham and bars of soap for the right one.

For once Don listen to the doc and Eilene. I get it on the work part, dr that operated on me when I cut off the finger tip told me that self employed people are the fastest healers. We’re not!!!! We’re just harder headed and want the work done, the stairlift will still be waiting on you for a few days.

I don’t consider the amounts I have on hand hoarding but I have enough food, supplies, and even TP to see us through. I always have enough ammo to make sure we have everything we need. I believe this is going away soon as the media has something new to use to blast .............stopping there before I get political.

Schools here closed for two weeks. Teachers had to rush in Thursday night and prep two weeks of home study materials. Teachers will have to go to work each day. The cafeterias will open and provide food to be picked up by parents or delivered by school officials for those who need it. There is no plan to make up these days since they are using home study and online tutoring.

I’m trying to start the rumor that the election will be canceled due to the virus. If I can get the media to pick it up the virus will be yesterday’s news and we can go back to normal. :witch_brew: I love the 3 sea shell connection there Patch.

People are going absolutely crazy here too. We stop by a grocery once each shift to get food to cook at the station, today it was packed with people looking at empty shelves. Canned veggies were nearly gone, meat cases hammered, paper aisle was empty, dried beans and pasta gone. I’m not a prepper but am a hunter, daughter and I filled the freezer with deer, caught bacon on sale and bought 50#, and a couple country hams. I buy veggies by the case simply because I don’t like shopping often. The intake is taken care of for a while, not sure about the output if we don’t get TP in the next week or two. I still don’t get the bottled water, most of our population is on municipal water systems. I have a great well. Is this stuff gonna dry up our water too?

Blue is best. Faded blue is fastest. A guy named Dan told me that.

Hey Boss I just sent your $12 birthday present again this year.

The virus has officially hit KY now. I got a push notification from the local news that the first case had been noted, 15 minutes later I got a text from the oldest daughter that it was in the hospital where the med students study. Mama's not happy that her little girl (25 y/o dr to be) is in the same hospital with it.

:bawling:We really enjoyed the last couple MDs but I don't think we can do June this year. The Dr to be will be home for a few weeks in June and the rocket scientist won't have moved off yet so I promised mama we could take them on another family vacation while we have them together. Since there's no beach around there and the pond monster will terrorize them it looks like we'll be heading south for white sand and hot sun. I'm really not enjoying the kids leaving home but after this summer we will officially be empty nesters.

Or Mama just order the tires and present them to him. All you have to do is ask the forum which tires to buy, but by the time you read all the opinions on that MD will have come and gone.

The fire dept here doesn't run ambulances but with the much lower number of fires today we have started to run backup for EMS. I much prefer the fire/rescue side of things that I signed on for. That being said we often beat EMS on runs closer to us and it has made a difference for some when we can shock the ticker a few minutes earlier. I get why we do it, we're here getting paid so why not use us between fires. It makes sense but I'd rather leave the doctoring to my daughter.

We had an emergency responders meeting today about the virus. Felt good to be reminded that we are on the front line walking into houses and buildings to package patients. Yay Us. Citizens are much safer today than yesteryear when we had more fires and worse auto accidents but stuff like this makes me miss the days of spending all our time fighting fires and working wrecks. The more EMS creeps into the fire service the more I look forward to retirement. 22 months and counting down. What used to be a lot of :fireman::fireman:has turned into a lot of :223:.

Awesome. It started here that way too, she had never been on a bike and mentioned trying it. One short ride on a Virago and she said she might like it. I started looking for a tourer and found my 1st gen Venture. We rode it on day trips until I found the 2nd gen that fit us better. Now we go on vacations on the bike and every time the weather clears on a day off she mentions a ride if I don't beat her to it. Loving every minute of it.

And the VR channel is 29.

Happy Birthday boss, but you missed it by a day. Us cool kids had one yesterday.

Well for as "worried" as they seemed about my breathing it must not be too critical. It only took 6 weeks to get me fitted with a machine. Got the ResMed. We'll see how it goes.

NAAh it's not too late to enter but your odds of winning are severely diminished.

All my best to her, hope she heals well.

I get what you're saying Sky, that's why I have mixed feelings. I'll admit I'm biased because of my job and the fact I have Leo's in my family. I've seen the direct result of people doing stupid things and I guess it gives me a hardened outlook. To me when he chose to endanger everyone else it was no longer a minor offense and he faced the consequences. I have long thought that if I'm the one doing something stupid or make a mistake driving I hope I'm the only one hurt by it. I've just seen to many innocent people hurt by careless or dangerous driving. On a current note my wife is going through a tough time dealing with injuries from a wreck from over two years ago. She has permanent injury and pain to deal with. The other driver simply made a mistake and crossed in front of her. We hold no ill thoughts or grudges to her but will face medical issues and bills the rest of her life because of it. It's part of life and we go on, if that driver had been drunk, running, or driving crazy I wouldn't have the same outlook.

Right after I wrote the above post I read a news story of a chase at the other end of the state from me. The driver was an escaped convict from near me, stole at least two vehicles, and had drugs, cash, and stolen guns in the car. The initial call was for a suspicious car, he ran. If they hadn't chased him what else was he going to do in upcoming days? Luckily we won't know since he's locked up. This was one of the good ones where no one was hurt.

I have some mixed feelings on these chases. As somebody who has dealt with the consequences of these kinds of things it makes you think. I've cut people out of wrecked cars, zipped body bags, and loaded many in ambulances after crashes. On one hand chases are dangerous but when police aren't allowed to chase it encourages people to run creating more issues. When the guy runs from a minor infraction the Leo doesn't know why he's running. Does he have a reason, is he a wanted person, warrants, drugs etc. We recently had a crotch rocket take out 3 cars and suffered life altering injuries trying to run from a cop that wasn't after him. The officer was responding to assist on a fire call in a highly occupied building, kid saw blue lights and ran. He tied up police resources, an ambulance, and a fire unit that was needed on the original call. In a small town where there are limited resources to start with it endangers more lives than just the ones on the road. With only 10-12 firefighter's on duty, 1-2 available ambulances, and few officers on the road at a time the heart attack, the child hurt, the pregnant mother in labor, the person trapped in a burning building have to wait while we deal with the imbecile that ran. I don't have much sympathy left for the runner. Do I break the law speeding? Yes I do, I also pull over when lighted. I haven't had a ticket in years but deserved the ones I got and more I didn't get because I pulled over a was truthful with the Leo's. Trying not to be political but I believe in corporal punishment, swift and strong. He earned what he got, I hope it will make others stop and think this could be me if I run.

Yep, that's like buying a motorcycle and adding gadgets, doodads, chro.......... uuuhhhmmmmm never mind.

Trying to figure out which of our members is pictured.