Notes from Mosquito Hill

May 5, 2008

Conference Haiku

hotel frustrationssmile, enjoy the conferencelots good to learn here —James(sent from my iPhone)

May 5, 2008

Gaylord National Resort Update

I woke up this morning thinking that the bed was comfortable, and maybe I’d been too harsh in my opinion. Then I walked to the bathroom. Gaylord National Resort charges a mandatory $15/day “Resort Fee” on top of the outrageous rate. The fee gives access to the gym and two ‘free’ bottles of water. Apparently […]

April 27, 2008

Getaway

Ericka dragged me to Florida this week for a surprise getaway. Dragged, really. Kicking and screaming.:-) See? Three days, two nights at the Tween Waters Inn on Captiva Island. We had a cute cabin, a cute rental car, and a nice time. Have to do this again sometime.

April 21, 2008

Steam season is back!

We had the first Monday Night Steamup of the season today at Larry Mosher’s. Larry pointed out that the days are as long now as they will be in August, and the weather finally got nice enough to run. http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf Larry ran his K28 with a good string of stock, Jessie brought Ruby and tried […]

April 13, 2008

Oshkosh, B’Gosh

Just posted the companion to this over at Firepics.net. Click here for more from the album. Iain and I found this on I-95 back in 11/05. You don’t often see a P-15 loose in the wild. This one was retired from Pease AFB and was headed to its new home on the West Coast.

April 13, 2008

19 years. . .

As I was searching for a topic to start this blog, it occurred to me that last month marked 19 years on the fire department for me. In that time I’ve seen 3 chiefs, and only 2 full-time firefighters. I’ve seen 3 engines come, and 3 go. I’m on my third ladder truck. I’ve saved […]