5.5 C and storming again.
Kids decorated the Christmas tree last night, I think this is amongst our earliest times. Also got the village set up and lights on.
Looks like I have to invest in some more bird seed, they have hit the feeders pretty hard this past week.
Our dilemma this week is what to do with some of the out door potted plants. If we leave them out they will freeze beyond recovery and there is no room inside the house. I think the geraniums may do ok in the dark in the shed??
We haven't had breakfast yet so I believe I'll make my world famous pancakes this morning. Well maybe they have only been famous in western Canada but now that I have mentioned them on here, you folks from elsewhere in the world now know of them!
Last night I recalled another one of my earlier Rangers and it struck me I should have included him with some of my other stories. So I will make up for that omission. I'll just do a few lines to get it started and then work on the rest later.
This is about Sterling (His actual name) and he was a man of sterling character. When I first got to know him he was in charge of the largest Ranger District in the province of BC. Actually it was close to 20 percent of the whole province and encompassed part of what we call the Peace River country and extended to the Alberta boundary, north to the North West Territories boundary then east to and along the Yukon boundary then southward through the Rockies to the Peace River. To manage this area he had 2 Assistant Rangers a dispatcher and a Deputy Ranger in Fort St. John and a summer Ass't. in Fort Nelson 260 miles up the Alaska highway. In the summer there were also three lookout men in towers.
Fort Nelson had for years been the final touch up ground for Ass't Rangers who were being groomed for Advanced Training. (Enter me).
Sterling had a reputation as being a hard task master, his way or no way and the world was black and white - there was no gray - if you know what I mean.
Traditionally the Fort Nelson man was assigned in the April or late March, spent the summer fire fighting then in September started Training school or returned to it as the case may be.
This time would be a bit different as no class was scheduled for that fall and there was interest in determining if there was sufficient year round work load to split Fort Nelson off from Fort St. John and make two districts.
to be continued
Kids decorated the Christmas tree last night, I think this is amongst our earliest times. Also got the village set up and lights on.
Looks like I have to invest in some more bird seed, they have hit the feeders pretty hard this past week.
Our dilemma this week is what to do with some of the out door potted plants. If we leave them out they will freeze beyond recovery and there is no room inside the house. I think the geraniums may do ok in the dark in the shed??
We haven't had breakfast yet so I believe I'll make my world famous pancakes this morning. Well maybe they have only been famous in western Canada but now that I have mentioned them on here, you folks from elsewhere in the world now know of them!
Last night I recalled another one of my earlier Rangers and it struck me I should have included him with some of my other stories. So I will make up for that omission. I'll just do a few lines to get it started and then work on the rest later.
This is about Sterling (His actual name) and he was a man of sterling character. When I first got to know him he was in charge of the largest Ranger District in the province of BC. Actually it was close to 20 percent of the whole province and encompassed part of what we call the Peace River country and extended to the Alberta boundary, north to the North West Territories boundary then east to and along the Yukon boundary then southward through the Rockies to the Peace River. To manage this area he had 2 Assistant Rangers a dispatcher and a Deputy Ranger in Fort St. John and a summer Ass't. in Fort Nelson 260 miles up the Alaska highway. In the summer there were also three lookout men in towers.
Fort Nelson had for years been the final touch up ground for Ass't Rangers who were being groomed for Advanced Training. (Enter me).
Sterling had a reputation as being a hard task master, his way or no way and the world was black and white - there was no gray - if you know what I mean.
Traditionally the Fort Nelson man was assigned in the April or late March, spent the summer fire fighting then in September started Training school or returned to it as the case may be.
This time would be a bit different as no class was scheduled for that fall and there was interest in determining if there was sufficient year round work load to split Fort Nelson off from Fort St. John and make two districts.
to be continued
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