Just another Saturday

Today started like any other Saturday, with no alarm clock! Oh how I love to sleep in and get those couple extra hours of sleep. There is something extra special about walking up with the sunshine streaming through the windows and the shrill pitch of the alarm clock replaced with silence. Ahhhh...

Of course that was just about as much different today was over the rest of the week. I hit the ground running so to speak with plenty of jobs on the weekend agenda. At the top of the list was a little maintenance on the fire apparatus at the station. It is amazing how much work a BRT (Big Red Truck) takes to keep it running in top shape. Good thing the ground clearance on them is such that sliding underneath them is so easy.

If only finding the parts for the BRTs is as easy as accessing their undercarriage. Tear it down, clean components, measure tolerances, reassemble, call and order parts and repeat the tear down process again in a few days when the new parts come in. There is nothing quite like getting plenty of tool time.

After the stint at the station, it was most definitely shower time. Laundry was another chore, of course it wouldn't have been so bad if the coveralls could have been found. Another plus about doing your own laundry, no angry lectures about the stains!

Then there was lunch, Avacodos and fig newtons! Okay, so maybe that wasn't the complete lunch menu. Cooking leads to dishes, dishes lead to floor mopping, floor mopping leads to...yadda yadda yadda.

I thought Saturdays were the rest stop of the weeks. How come there is always so many chores on the 'lazy' Saturdays?