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Hey guys, sorry I haven't been in lately. Spring Break's been a killer. The firest couple of days we built fence and hung gates, then one day we had a trackhoe come in and laid 100 feet of 30 and 36 inch concrete pipe for a pond overflow channel, then worked some cattle one day, sprayed yards a couple of days, and then Friday mom wanted to go down to the mall at Gainesville TX, and I talked dad into going on into Addison so we could go to Discount Model Trains. Came out of there at noon on Saturday, then came home and babysat my nephew and ended up getting home at 11 last night, and had a baked potato dinner after church today, so this is really the first time this break I've sat down at the computer. Now I've got to do a little homework for college tomorrow (I don't worry about high school anymore, it's just a blow-off now) and feed cattle in the rain and if there's any time left, play with my new train stuff. I got an intermodal train to pull behind either the SD40-2 or the SD24 and some brass and styrene so I can finish up some scratch builds. Paul: Got your e-mail today, and we had a 5000 acre fire about 10 miles from here. It burned all through Sunday, fired back up Monday morning, they hot-spotted all day Tuesday, it fired back up again Wednesday, and I think they got it mostly out on Thursday. Over 40 departments responded, so there were at least a hundred fire trucks, mostly brush pumpers except some of these rural departments who have the big ol' 6x6's (we have two) with brush pumps and some have front spray booms. They had airplane tankers Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and a Blackhawk on Monday and two on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Calumet, El Reno, Geary, Hinton, Cedar Lake, and Lookeba (all volunteer except El Reno) were out there every day working 24 hour or longer shifts with all of their trucks (except rescues and pumpers) on the fires. El Reno command finally sent Cedar Lake and Calumet home for 8 hours one day when they got some back-up from the Oklahoma City area departments. I was mad though, because Oklahoma City themselves never mutual aid with anyone, but always want help when things get bad there. See y'all later, Greg
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