First wasn’t it just a beautiful spring weekend?  I hope that everyone had a great one and filled up with pancakes at the Rod & Gun Club.  They are the best!

This is the sort of pictures I was capturing the beginning of the weekend:

I don’t know about everyone else but we were able to get a ton done this weekend UNTIL  last night.  Last night was a beautiful calm night out and a perfect time to burn some of the brush on the farm that gets done every year and will continue to be done every year.  Anyways…as Gary and I are out there tending to this small fire, this woman stops and starts yelling at us about burning.  At first I was nice and said thank you for the information however; she continued to yell at me and then started swearing at me.  As  I turned my back to ignore the ignorance spewing from this woman she drives over to where Gary is and gets into it with him.   She than proceeds to call 911.  About 5 minutes later a fireman shows up from Bolivar (a very nice one by the way, thank you Mr. Beaton) and calls into dispatch that it is a controlled burn.

Next there are two (yes TWO)  tanker trucks coming over the Watson Road.  They saw it was a controlled burn and weren’t worried about anything until Miss First Assistant Fire Chief shows up and makes them stay and calls the state police.  Are you kidding me?  I laughed!!!!!    When Miss First Assistant Fire Chief shows up in all her gear the grass was smoldering and no bigger than 20′ x 20′ (at the most) with beautiful green grass all around it with no were to go.

She continued to make the crew stay there for over an hour!.  Her claim was that there was a burn ban even though dispatch said there was not and the state police said there wasn’t.  My question is, when does common sense come into play?  You are making your full crew stay for smoldering grass with the trucks running when over the hill there is someone burning a fire in the woods with dead leaves all over the place and it is unattended?  She should have looked said it was under control and sent everyone home.  But no we have the power trip going and have to call the state police.

The State Police finally showed up about and hour later and said there was nothing he could do there was nothing wrong done and left.  Not only was this a waste of our time but I’m sure those firemem would have rather been home than watching grass burn.  (Oh by the way check out how green all the surrounding grass is).

Gary and I would like to thank the firemen that did show up and had to waste their time thanks to Miss First Assistant Fire Chief.  It was much appreciated.  For Miss First Assistant Fire Chief next time use your head and some common sense and don’t waste our time, your crews time or the taxpayers money!!!!!

And one final picture this was Gary after he cooled off.  You have to love this man he still looks ornery!!!