Bought a new lounger to relax in and placed it at the end of the porch where I can see the deer and the antelope play. Just finished reading one mindless trashy novel, Wild Mountain Honey by Carol Finch. Have another novel sitting in the red car that I pick up(the novel, not the red car)and read in intervals. If Cliff responds to an emergency call and reports to the station and it may be about an hour, I just sit in the lounger at the station and read. If it's longer, I take the car and head home. Have two more novels started, read according to what mood I'm in.

Most of the time Maxine beats me to my chair.

She watches the deer and anything else that moves in the woods.....

then snoozes........which is what she does best.

Cliff has joined another volunteer fire dept. It's not unusual here to belong to 2 or even 3 depts. Sometimes weeks go by with no calls and he wants to keep his skills sharp. So he now belongs to Bellview and Martin's Creek volunteer fire depts. He also just finished a ventilation course that was 3 1/2 weeks and is now enrolled in a ladders course for the next few weeks. Before these two course he completed a forceable entry course, portable extinguishers, and fire behavior. It's really great that he has found his niche............