I realize alot of my blogs have little to do with farming, or barely tie in, this is one of those, just trying to give a taste of rural life in our corner of the world. But hey, it is my blog!
I thought I had been asleep last night for hours when my fire pager went off, actually I had been in bed about and hour and a half, the clock showed straight up midnight. As I have said before, both the fire and ambulance here are volunteer. Our ambulance crew has been shortstaffed so a couple years ago someone decided it would be good to put a defibulator(SP??) on a fire truck, and page us when there was a possible heart attack as well as the ambulance, a race to see who gets there first. I live about as far away from the firebarn as anyone on the "brigade"(we don't call it that), I am always reluctant to dress and head out into the cold for one of these night heart attack runs because someone else always beats me, so I got up and turned my radio to scan and listened, not what you want your life saving people to do I imagine, but this is what you get when you do not pay money to rescue workers. Just when I was beginning to think God was going to strike me down for not going(and everyone else) I heard familiar voices over the radio going "10-8", in service. And, before you condemn me, it was within the time frame where I would be driving to the barn still. It did sound however like the patient was dead, so since we have gotten the defib unit, we are 0 and 3 I think, all three have been DOA.
Returning to bed, I was just about to get back to serious sleep when our herd of dogs started barking. I often think they bark at each other at night, certainly if we ever do have intruders I won't know to get up and do anything about it, as I am so use to it. I have perfected the technique of telling Amy to plug her ears and bellowing "SHUT UP" from bed, generally my voice gets through the walls enough to shut them up, not last night, Finally Amy got up and went outside and yelled at them. Seems like we got about 45 minutes of sleep last night, so much for the peace and quiet of country life.