Kroey

Heading up to see mum and the family in Grafton, should be back around the 4th Jan. Have a great new year everyone...

Christmas is almost here... Busy, busy, busy. Happy birthday Whitey, your birthday bash was a blast (got a new tyre on your bike yet? LOL)

Set a new personal best last night, cooked a barbeque for more than 200 Emergency workers out in the Bush =)

It's 3am and I've just got home. Spent the evening with about a hundred fire fighters, half a dozen Salvation Army volunteers, and a few Police, Ambos, and SES guys. There's a BIG bushfire about 30km outa town, and I was volunteered by a mate to help out by cooking tea for these guys (snags, minute steaks etc). When we arrived there were two helicopters on the ground near where we were to set up, which I thought was a little unusual; they should have been in the air 'bombing' the fire. Turns out the two of them had a little altercation, and from the chunk missing from the tail of the one I saw the other one was lucky not to have come down a lot harder than it did. They're both grounded until they can be inspected, and the firies were bulldozing a fire break around them so they don't lose them if the fire turns back this way. The pilot of the chopper I saw was a very pale shade of white, and I guess it's lucky his uniform pants were brown =). Typical of t...

Yep, summer (and Christmas) are here. Went to Dubbo for a job today, 40 degrees celcius, flies, 5 hours of driving. On the way back we came over the top of the hill into our valley and there was a huge bushfire at the south eastern end of the valley AND another at the north western end. I'm at the company Christmas party right now so I'll finish this later =)