Photos to Live By...
An evening parade in Mount Tabor provided me with quite a night! The parade was a ton of fun 
- the first I'd been to where you could make a ton of noise! We lobbed candy at kids that had bags loaded with more candy than a Hallowe'en take; wailed the sirens and hit the air horn; we had a lot of fun. The streets of Mount Tabor are very old and very narrow. It is a strange town anyway, it is a section of Parsippany that was mostly built a long time ago, and the property is owned by Mount Tabor's church, not the homeowners'. We were all there - the six districts, us, Car 65, Car 69 and OEM/R.A.C.E.S. - among others. We all stayed in the line of march throughout the whole of the parade, and then headed back to primary - our side of town. Parsippany is huge, about 27 square miles. Responding to a call on this side of town from the absolute farthest side would have been very difficult.
- the first I'd been to where you could make a ton of noise! We lobbed candy at kids that had bags loaded with more candy than a Hallowe'en take; wailed the sirens and hit the air horn; we had a lot of fun. The streets of Mount Tabor are very old and very narrow. It is a strange town anyway, it is a section of Parsippany that was mostly built a long time ago, and the property is owned by Mount Tabor's church, not the homeowners'. We were all there - the six districts, us, Car 65, Car 69 and OEM/R.A.C.E.S. - among others. We all stayed in the line of march throughout the whole of the parade, and then headed back to primary - our side of town. Parsippany is huge, about 27 square miles. Responding to a call on this side of town from the absolute farthest side would have been very difficult.This is Danny Weber, our captain. He's a guy with a terribly thankless job. It sucks to be 
Captain. No one likes what you do; no one has anything but complaints. People dump on him for all sorts of things. He has a higher responsibility than just the operational side of things - the township dumps all over him if rigs don't make it out for a call. He's a funny guy - very big, very imposing, but with a very distinctive voice. He shaves his head (despite being able to grow a full head of hair), has a goatee and many tattoos. He has a lot of artwork. He's been riding since he was 15 years old - a long time, over half his life. He has seen it all.
This is an interesting picture. No, I have no idea, who the people in it are - just some spectators to the parade. The amusing thing was that they had a water gun and as we were driving up the narrow, tiny roads they were shooting people with the water gun - right into the side window. My window! I was throwing candy and taking photos and they got me right on. There was no damage to the camera, but it was not good for it, I'm sure. However, I like the effects of the flash on the water! That is amusing.
Here's Tom working on the new shed. He is frugal by nature but being an engineer he can actually get away with it. Most of us mere mortals need a company to do things for us, but Tom,
being a very organised person, designed his own shed and drew plans and wrote out all the things that he needed to do. It was very impressive. He designed the floor and he Luis and poured concrete for it and built over it with article board (it looked like particle board, anyway). When I showed up, Tom was just shaving down the one side. It really looks good. He put a lot into the planning and construction, and it paid off. So far, so good. We will hopefully see the rest of it up by the end of this weekend. I think it will really look great. It probably won't have blinds or window slats, but hey, it is a shed.
My liuetenant, Bob Heinzerling. We have been riding together for about two years now, and pror to that, I used to go over and hang out with the then-Thusrday night crew (Bob, Mary Miller, Leroy Rodriguez and Rob Greenberg. Rob only rides until 2100, so we make sure to race to the building so that he cannot get into the driver's seat. This guy seriously cannot drive. Anyway, Bob is wonderful. We are really friends and work very well together and spend a lot of time talking. He knows a lot about the electrical systems and general engineering of the rigs. He seems to know exactly what is wrong at any given time.
Captain. No one likes what you do; no one has anything but complaints. People dump on him for all sorts of things. He has a higher responsibility than just the operational side of things - the township dumps all over him if rigs don't make it out for a call. He's a funny guy - very big, very imposing, but with a very distinctive voice. He shaves his head (despite being able to grow a full head of hair), has a goatee and many tattoos. He has a lot of artwork. He's been riding since he was 15 years old - a long time, over half his life. He has seen it all.
This is an interesting picture. No, I have no idea, who the people in it are - just some spectators to the parade. The amusing thing was that they had a water gun and as we were driving up the narrow, tiny roads they were shooting people with the water gun - right into the side window. My window! I was throwing candy and taking photos and they got me right on. There was no damage to the camera, but it was not good for it, I'm sure. However, I like the effects of the flash on the water! That is amusing.Here's Tom working on the new shed. He is frugal by nature but being an engineer he can actually get away with it. Most of us mere mortals need a company to do things for us, but Tom,
being a very organised person, designed his own shed and drew plans and wrote out all the things that he needed to do. It was very impressive. He designed the floor and he Luis and poured concrete for it and built over it with article board (it looked like particle board, anyway). When I showed up, Tom was just shaving down the one side. It really looks good. He put a lot into the planning and construction, and it paid off. So far, so good. We will hopefully see the rest of it up by the end of this weekend. I think it will really look great. It probably won't have blinds or window slats, but hey, it is a shed.My liuetenant, Bob Heinzerling. We have been riding together for about two years now, and pror to that, I used to go over and hang out with the then-Thusrday night crew (Bob, Mary Miller, Leroy Rodriguez and Rob Greenberg. Rob only rides until 2100, so we make sure to race to the building so that he cannot get into the driver's seat. This guy seriously cannot drive. Anyway, Bob is wonderful. We are really friends and work very well together and spend a lot of time talking. He knows a lot about the electrical systems and general engineering of the rigs. He seems to know exactly what is wrong at any given time.
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