Business Meeting May 4

Two things:

First and foremost, we have a business meeting 7pm on Thursday May 4. Please do attend, and we always love to see our civilians there too, and thank you John Fuller - your presence and input is always valuable to us.

Second - Ed and I arranged to meet last night to practice on driving the truck, in this case the yellow Margarita one, the more difficult one to drive. Ed's good at this, and was great at helping me along. I have to tell you that I've no experience whatsoever at driving heavy, manual, lugging trucks and this was a great informal practice. We drove twice up to Corinth Church, practiced backing up and turning around and all that stuff. We did the battery and the air brakes and everything. If you think all the firefighters know just what to do and how to do it, all you have to do is look at me.

So if anyone is anxious about your lack of prowess as a fantastic firefighter, don't be. There's plenty of us who are willing to arrange special times for shy people (like me) who get intimidated and want to practice in a more informal environment. Just let any of us know, and emailing wolfskinvfd@yahoo.com is a good way to start.

Ed and I had a great conversation about photographing plants, as we were making our two round trips to Corinth Church and delaying all those nice people driving behind us. Ed asked if I could identify a wildflower if he brought it in, and I said, maybe, but we can sure find out. Turns out one of our new firefighters, Pat, is pretty darn good at plant identifications too. So if you thought firefighters were limited to fighting fires and trying to drive trucks, there's quite a bit of talent here you didn't know about!

See you at the Thursday meeting.

-Wayne