The problem with the full moon schedule is it’s not as specific as just the night of.  It can hit a couple of days before and after.  However, I’m glad he’s not working tonight when the full summer moon is hitting.  It’s been bad enough the night before.  He was crazy busy.

The funny thing is, we are sitting out at the lake with friends during the full moon.  Much better than the guys at the station!  Us wives are crazy enough for them to deal with. lol

I know super quick post, but if you’ve talked to your man you have much better full moon posts than this.  Yes, the crazies really do come out during a full moon.  I love to hear the stories from my cop dispatch friend also.

I know there are times that go farther between posting than I’d like.  It’s not for lack of ideas, it’s because I try to be smart and think before posting.  I refuse to be like so many other sites and post info that in my opinion violates privacy laws.  I try hard about that and it’s not easy for me as I’m such an open book.

Tonight and day, hubby has been busy.  He’s been helping my Dad build a fence, finished up two big projects here at the house and had a busy set.  It was rough to send him and rough for him to go to work today because he’s been so busy.  TOO BUSY!  We run off to friends when he gets off work and then he’s said he’ll start another side of our fence the next day when we get back from the lake.  NO, I don’t think he will  I’m pretty sure we need to go have a fun day of play with the youngest.

Anyway, the blog title.  Do you post TMI on your blog?  Do you think before you post?  It’s a rough line.

For one thing I don’t want to embarrass my family.  To many people know who we are because of FB.  The internet is not as anonymous as it was when I first started building sites when the dinosaurs were around.

Secondly, I don’t want to have hubby lose his job or be reprimanded.  Quite a few from his work follow my FB account and updates from this blog go to that account.  While I don’t have a worry about corporate for anything I say, I am aware of how things could affect his work.  Yes, I hate that and it can stifle talk.  However, I’m thankful that I’ve always been a horrible liar and any opinions that do come out of my mouth are backed up by some facts and I will own them as my opinions.  Feel free to send me more facts so I can change my opinion by facts presented.  From years of my Dad being in government, my holding positions on boards and now hubbies job, yes I do know things I’m not supposed to.  After 16 years I’m aware of this and I don’t post and I don’t talk about many, many things.  It’s a rough line for me at times to know what may be public knowledge so I just ignore it until later. lol

Right now, hubby has had a super busy day.  How do I know this?  I thankfully got to see him. I passed him driving the engine (HOT!) and then did a turn around so I could drop stuff off at the station for him.  But since then I haven’t heard anything.  It’s always a wonder if it’s that busy or if his phone ran out of juice. lol  I haven’t been home so I’m not sure if sirens have been rocking or not.  Then we’ve had movies up loud so we can’t hear outside noise as much either.

But it’s almost midnight and we’ll be going to the lake with friends for a few days.  Man I’m excited to see him for more than a few minutes.

This wasn’t too far from my house. Not dangerously close by any means, but a little ways down the road. I wasn’t home and my friend texted me to tell me the district must have just blown up because there were sirens going from both stations like crazy.

We heard a plane had crashed and sadly that has happened a few times during hubbies career.  I hoped it wasn’t too bad. We live by a private air strip and people build there own planes. Now that’s a brilliant idea isn’t it?

Luckily it wasn’t that bad and the old man made an emergency landing. His ultralight stalled from what I can find out on the tv channels and he landed in the field and ended upside down. There’s some cool footage and pics.

Hubby’s not in the footage and I can’t get a good pic of the extra rigs there that were first called out to see if he’d even made the call.  It was a busy morning.  But there’s a lot of guys in the pictures that owe some ice cream tonight.  I made sure and posted the link on facebook so they can be called out.

Well last night I posted about summer schedules, hubby called me outside to help with the gate and then the call came in for OT today. Our friends are all out of town so we knew we’d get it. lmao Hey, it’s the price they pay for winning this snobby charity event golf tickets that pricetag would BLOW YOUR MIND. Anyway, I don’t mean snobby for realz. But they will be mingling with celebs.

I was lmao when he said what the call was. Of course take it, we’re only doing projects and we could get the gate done before bed. Not to mention we just put the fence and big gate in and the new skylight. Doesn’t hurt to get a little of that back. lol

True to fashion, the planned 4 day is broken up. He ended up working with some guys we really like AND he’s working third on the engine. So he’s loving his day of work today. I got an unexpected day of no one at home. It’s a late night watching movies on the newly streaming Wii with netflix, catching up on my blogs and hitting this hill of laundry.

Jealous?

I think tomorrow I will finish painting the master bath finally. Our buddy is coming over to roof in the new skylight in the main bath. I can’t wait to have light in there again. Our old one was leaking so it’s been covered for months. That will be 2 projects off our big list this summer! SWEET

Wow, it’s only our 4th summer after getting hired and so much has happened that his seniority isn’t bad. We’ve had 2 groups of rookies hired and recently merged with another district. We aren’t that close to the bottom anymore and that means…? WOW, time off during the summer? WHAT?!

We went into this gig knowing that we’d never have time off in the summer. We’d been warned and we knew as the rookie you don’t get to pick. But here we are with a lot of time off.

It’s not easy to schedule work around, but it’s very difficult to complain about it. This year we are finally getting over some bills and getting projects done around the house. OK, he’s mostly getting projects done. But he used to be a carpenter in his past life, if I help it typically takes longer. lol

Camping, short trips and projects galore. Oh, then there are the friends stopping over, the bday parties, the weddings and the just getting together cause we want to BBQ’s. It’s packed and I’m having a heck of a time getting sites updated. This means it’s time to sell off more sites and scale back. If it doesn’t get updated much this summer, it’s outta here.

Hubby is working it again as usual. I know that he hasn’t been scheduled on the day for two years, but so many years of being a volunteer just sticks with ya. We had a party every year and I hung out blowing sh*t up with our friends and he would end up on calls. Nothing can be done about that.

Poor youngest wants to blow stuff up and Dad’s always at work. He’s growing up on the stupid ideas of what he can get away doing. Hello, your Dad said don’t be stupid. Well…he really didn’t know that it was stupid until MOM told him. lol Hey, common sense dude. WHAT?

We lit stupid stuff earlier and it was stupid. Stupid funny cause it didn’t blow up. bayahahahaha But no daddy, so we only have weinie stuff to light. Yes, I will admit it. No matter how much I love to wat!ch it, I’m still a girl and a momma, it has to be more mellow.

Happy 4th to all the pyros out there today

Hubby works again. Our son was so bummed when this was brought to his attention. “Another year I can’t light fireworks”, he said. I have guilt. Here I am bringing up the appropriately trained pyro and he hasn’t even lit fireworks. Poor 12 year old!

Our volunteer life started when our son (the youngest) was only 2. It’s amazing to think that he knows nothing different than his daddy being in fire, his sister was only 5 so really it’s all they know. Considering how much we put into him getting a paid gig, it’s refreshing to look at it through the kids eyes. Their Daddy has always been a firefighter to them and they’ve always told people he’s a firefighter…cause he was!

But this means that for many years hubby was on call 24/7/365. Especially on the 4th our here in rural area. We’d have a big block party for years, tons of our friends at our house, but it never failed that he would get a call. Then in recent years, it’s just worked that B shift worked or our son was staying somewhere that night. So while he’s been old enough to light fireworks, it hasn’t worked out cause I am not a fan.

Or I should say I’m a runner. It takes me a long time to get stuff lit. I try to light it and run before it’s lit. lol We live out in the county so many illegal stuff goes off around us and I like my little illegals. You know, the little bees that buzz up? yeah, those are my giggle illegals. I love to light those and I still run when they are lit.

So while hubby is at work again this year, I will let my son step into his role of pyro. Today Dad and son will need to go down to the local safe-n-sane stand and purchase some stuff. Our son knows all the rules and he knows why we have these laws and rules. He also knows that his Mom was brought up by his Grandma and could call quits at any time on the boomers. Dang my Mom did a number on me with her phobias about fun stuff! Big booms and big lights ROCK, but not when my baby boy is involved.

No time like the present to start getting used to it. He’ll be volunteering as soon as he can I’m sure. It’s not just Dad that’s grooming him with his pyro ways. Damn brotherhood lolol Nah, totally kidding. My boys got the bug, we’ll see how it pans out.

I was going through my feedreader and Katie from The Life of  Firefighters Wife had a great post.  It came up with things that her poor daughter had been told by another.  WOW, talk about pulling things out of remission.  I had a similar experience with an older neighbor telling me stuff and then a funny NOW story.

Growing up, we had a mean neighbor girl.  While I grew up on a farm, there was an apartment complex that bordered some of our property that was very bad.  Renamed and repainted in the last few years bad.  So honestly, the girl that told me stuff was growing up in a horrible environment and my Mom did tell me that as she comforted me.

Short story, my grandpa passed away and I was only around 7 I think.  I loved my grandpa, I have fond, fond memories of sitting on his lap because he had unlimited supplies of fruit certs in his pocket and my parents couldn’t tell me no. lol  I like to overshadow with that certs memory instead of the memory of his long months of pain from cancer and passing in his bed.

My “friend” and I had been talking about heaven because my grandpa was recently there and it had to do with the clouds.  Now I don’t remember exactly how it went down, but it had to do with barely any clouds being up there and the devil chasing my grandpa.  I don’t come from a religious family at all.  My parents are both Catholic, but not even close to practicing.  We were raised in the mix of it with ideas and thoughts of our own.  Anyway, I remember this because my parents had said something about the clouds and this horrible child had told me that the devil chased them around on the clouds.  TALK ABOUT CRYING!  I came running back to the house and thankfully told my Mom right away what she said.

But the funny story is about orange juice.  It was one of the days I’d skipped first grade to go hang out at my brothers pre-school.  It was fun there, I can remember that. lol  We were driving home and my brother had been sad for days.  WTH?  Finally my Mom somehow got it out of him about the sunshine and orange juice.  There was a commercial back then about someone’s OJ being liquid sunshine.  Unfortunately, my brother and I are smart kids, even at such an early age because he had linked that the sun was deadly and orange juice was liquid sunshine.  This meant that all of us drinking OJ were going to die.  POOR KID!  He had stopped drinking OJ and thought the rest of us were going to die because it was sunshine.

Kids hear and make up the most amazing things.  Sadly, there are so many kids growing up in horrible situations that have a bad impression of life and death.  This only came up because of what Katie at The Life of  Firefighters Wife had to go through and how they pull up stuff from commercials, shows and friends.

Even if we shelter our kids, these things will happen.  I was very sheltered.  The good thing I can pull out of this event is that my brother and I felt we could talk to my Mom about things, no matter how bad they were.  So create that environment first.  That environment is the most important beyond all else.  Kids will be told so many things and the important thing is they know they can talk to us about anything.

Ok, sorry for making you watch it, but I couldn’t help myself. lol

This week is a wonky schedule with shift, drill coverage and other OT.  The kids got out of school last week and I’m having a tough time figuring out what day of the week it is. lol  Not used to hubby working 5 days a week and I can’t keep track if he’s coming home for dinner or it’s a shift day.  Crazy week.

Daughter and I were watching Cupcake Wars and of course it brings cupcake cravings. One of the cupcake shops in district had a fire this week and cupcakes have been on my mind ever since. lol Cupcakes rock! Well darn it if my daughter didn’t go bake some. Then she made her own powdered sugar and decorated them. My house wreaks of vanilla cake and frosting. EVIL!

Luckily she asked if we could take some to Dad. OF COURSE WE CAN! Awesome, we’ll drop more than half of them off and let them eat all the calories. Some of them were at drill all day so they can afford it. I, on the other hand, can not have them in my house. I’m thankful we have someplace to drop off her baked goods to share. She loves to bake and I stopped baking years ago. The problem with baking is the eating it all.

I started this post above and hadn’t even gotten up to look at the cupcakes yet.  Remember folks, my 14 year old did these completely on her own.  I didn’t know before posting that she’d gotten her cake decorating stuff out and made them so fancy.  WOW, no wonder why she wants to take them to the station.  She knows everyone will rave about them.  Smart girl! lol  They didn’t take her long to do either.

Dad’s pretty good at keeping out of sweets if he wants to, so I’m not worried about him being “cranky” that we’re dropping them off.  He’s not even at the station since they have to clean up the multi-company drill.  I’m taking the chicken way out and leaving them in his truck.  This is not the food we are supposed to be promoting with this new health stuff that’s going to start soon.  Cupcakes are portion controlled though…except we’re dropping off 12 cupcakes and only 5 guys are working. tee-hee-hee