No need to fire up the stove...

If I would have been in the mood for a hearty breakfast I could have cooked it out at the airport on the concrete. The temperature here in Fort Stockton got up to well over 110 degrees outside! But as the residents of Ft Stockton proclaim... its a dry heat. I don't think that really matters in the grand scheme of things 110 is 110 no matter which way you slice it. The days here have been long and boring recently but Saturday is my last day, so I have less than a full week left out here... thank you jesus. Well I hope that the weather has been treating all of you back in civilzation better than it has out here.

flying over Alpine, TX

here is a picture of my airplane... sitting outside the hanger.

here is a S.E.A.T. (single engine air tanker) @ Fort Stockton

Here's where I stays at during the day

Here's Lucky....

Here are some pictures of our new kiddo... after all the playing and picture taking today, Les said that he has slept non-stop since I left.... hope you enjoy the pictures.

FIRE....

Well the last time I was out here in Fort Stockton, I was completely bored... no fires, nothing to do. Not this time, out of the days that I have been here... there is only one day that we have not fired up the engines on the airplane. Only problem with all this flying is that I haven't been able to walk like I have wanted! Well I am on the ground here until 2:00 pm then we have to go back up for about 3 more hours. Sure wish that I was having a lazy Saturday at the house instead of all of this! Bye-for now have to go get a bite to eat.

Iphone here I come...

Well today I have done quite well on watching what I eat and exercising. I drank tons of water and I walked about 4 1/2 miles today! Needless to say there was a nice nap taken half-way through the day today! Well today was the third day here in Ft. Stockton and still no fires. Hopefully there will be something going on in the coming days, as sitting here can get extremelly boring and mundane. Got to go I hear Subway calling my name for dinner tonight, I think I will order the Jared special.

Seek Shelter....

Thats what the people in Fort Stockton are doing today, as I have returned today... Well I hope that everyone is having a good time back in civilization. I am out here in West Texas for the next 13 or so days on fire detail. My company did hire a friend of mine from Henderson and I think that he is going to take over for me on the checkrun to St. Louis, which should free me up to start flying the Cheyenne's for my company which I am very excited about! The temperature here is supposed to reach into the mid-90's today... not to fun if you ask me. But I am excited about one thing... while I am out here I plan to do good on my diet... if I can lose a vast sum of weight Les has promised to buy me an iphone, so here is to eating healthy while I am out here.

Back in St. Louis...

Well I am back doing the checkrun for a little while longer... but I am training up a friend of mine to take it over for me, today is his first day on the job. Well the flight up here was quite nice, all of the thunderstorms and nasty stuff stayed off to the east of us on the way up here. I am quite happy that my company recently purchased a new GPS for us to carry with us as it uses XM radio to depict the weather and thunderstorms... don't ask me how it does that, it just does it, thats all I need to know! When he gets trained up, I think that my company will be able to get me into their Cheyenne aircraft (they are the bigger, faster, more expensive airplanes) that we have! Well all else is well here and it feels good to be back from "the middle of nowhere" TX!