Firemen's Funeral

Went to bed last night around 02:30 hours and got up this morning at 11:00 hours. I got out of bed and ate lunch and read a little bit of the paper. I then called Bubb at 12:00 hours to see if he had made a decision regarding the Utility. He said that we could take it down. So I then got changed into my uniform and me and my father headed up to the fire house. Bubba was there when we got there. We went inside and we put our gear in the back of the Utility and talked to Bubba for a little bit and then headed on our way down to Camp Hill. We got down there around 13:45 hours and parked with the rest of the apparatus. We then met Larry Cook and went inside the church. We signed the book and then viewed Hap's body. I then ran back outside to clear the wind shield of the Utility off. I then went back inside. A few more people from th County Association showed up and we talked to them. We then had the church service and got out of there around 16:30 hours. They sat all of the firefighters together during the service and then afterwards they sent us all outside to stand at attention while Hap was brought out to the hearse. We then all got in our trucks and the apparatus brought up the rear of the funeral prossesion. It took us about an hour to go from the church in Camp Hill to the cemetary in Oberlin. I bet we pissed a lot of motorist off, due to police had a lot of intersections blocked off and they even had traffic stopped on 11/15. When we got over to the cemetary, we were able to get in the cemetary, but not that far. I do not believe that all of the apparatus was able to get into the cemetary. We then walked over to the grave site. Life Lion then did a fly over and a short 10 minute service followed. We then decided go to Lower Swatara's station for the recepition afterwards as traffic was a mess. We had something to eat there and left around 19:15 hours and headed on home. We stopped at Shell to get fuel as we really needed it. After we got fuel we headed back to the station. We got back there around 20:20 hours. We got out gear out and then headed on home. Once at home I called Carol and thanker her for covering for me and then called Sue and told her I was back on. She then said that she was going into the "Barn" to do her tripsheet from the call last night and she wanted to know if I wanted to come in. Of course I said yed. I then changed into my uniform and headed into the shed. I got there at the same time as Bill did. We went inside the office and waited for Sue to show up. She got there and we started talking. Bill then gave me a small valentine's gift. He also gave a gift and card to Sue. I kind of felt bad for not getting them something. I then went out to the kitchen to get a soda and I noticed that everything in the fridge was warm. I looked at the temperature and it said it was 78 in the fridge. I told Bill that he should call Viv and let her know. So he called her and then went out to the kitchen to take a look at the fridge while he talked to Viv. He ended up throwing everything out except for the soda's. While he was doing that, I decided to give Sue a back massage as my valentine's gift. I gave her I would say almost an hour long massage. Alf and Kim then stopped in and the five of us talked. The whole time that Sue was doing her tripsheet, talking to Alf and Kim, and then after her tripsheet, when she was talking to Carol and Kim on the phone, I was giving her a back massage. She really enjoyed it as it made her feel more relaxed. She said that she will have to take me up on a back massage more often as that really helped her back and she said that she would probally sleep better tonight. We all then left and headed our seperate ways. I went down to the post office and mailed a few letters for Sue and then went to Giant and picked up a few things. I then headed on home. Sue then called me on my cell phone and said that she was heading over to Steve's awhile for the night. She was going off at midnight so that she could be there at 04:00 hours to watch the kids while Steve ran Lori down to Hershey Hospital to have her tubes tied. So I told her I would talk to her later and then took the food inside. I then took the trash out and finished reading the paper. I am going to crash in bed as I am tired.