The "beedy nastard".

If you've been to the RenFest you'll be able to figure this out.

If not it's called a "spoonerism", explained by Zilch- the torysteller. Lost you yet?

It's serfectly pimple,you citch your swonsonants,fack and borth.

If you still cant figure it out,YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE.

MOM!!!!!!! YOUR FROWING SKILL SSSSSSSSSUUUUUUXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!

WTF!!!!
This deer just heard about the idiots at some big bank who's in trouble for moving up the delivery of the BONUSES for his executives! With all the bailouts and bank collapses this dooofuuussss is still publicly annoucing bonuses for top execs.
And our new governor's staff is expecting people invited to the Governor's birthday(I think) party to pay $10,000 U.S. DOLLARS to attend.
What are these morons thinking?

Four people in this pic?

The two washing wenches and ME, 5'11" 368#'s.

This was last Sept.,since then down 55#'s,hopefully I can keep it up,Iknow it'll slow down. But I'd really like to be around what I was at graduation(almost 23 years ago)210#'s.

Wish me patience, my wife/social secretary/conscience/PIMA can really get on the most infinitesimal part of my nerves. So wish me patience she's gonna need it.

This is my dog. The Queen,my beautiful intelligent Lab, RAVEN.
She is in charge, don't believe it ask her,(or Taz) and you will find out.

GET OUT OF HER BUTT! LAY DOWN! STOP! LEAVE HER ALONE! GeT Out OF hER BuTt!!! TAAAAZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!

This set of phrases are a constant reminder that we have an IGMO living in our house. The dumbest,most hard headedest dog in Iredell county. Scared of almost everything, guns (not only the sound,but the sight of a gun), grill tongs, and thunder. But, he's the sweetest, most even tempered fido in the world.

So I present to you my wife's "special needs" dog,

TAZ

INTEGRITY: Doing whats right even when noone is watching.

What makes one person so much different than everybody else. This a pic from a training fire that our dept. and several others did.

Most people see abunch of smoke and head for the exits,add flames and they "grab another gear". Others see smokeand flames and they're frozen in place.

And then you have The Brotherhood that "Dances where the devil plays", of course I mean firefighters. Women and men who have dedicated their lives to risking their own to save others.

Whether entering a flaming structure to see if anyone was left behind or standing in the middle of a busy road to redirect traffic at a wreck, getting out of bed and leaving their loved ones to go help friends and strangers both,many times at the worst times of their lives.

What makes a person do this? DEDICATION. Because they have chosen to help their community and without exception all those in it.

These men and women live and unfortunately die by the words HONOR, PRIDE and INTEGRITY.

They are called HEROS by those inthe general population and given awards and honors for bravery and heroism even sometimes posthumously, but ask them and they would give it all up to have saved that one casualty or for the event to have never occured.

Firefighting isn't just a job, it is a PASSION, all consuming.

So to all my sisters and brothers,from a brother, only two words,

THANK YOU !

James R. Benfield

SIVFD 1246

Not quite one of those days but realatively close!

do you know what 2" of rain +45mph winds = ?

trees down,power lines down, all over our little county.

and in our district, called over the radio to E-comm, a true to life,yes-by-god, dyed in the wool,real live "WORKING TREE FIRE" ! I guess the high winds and lots of water, bring out all the goobers. Not just the ones driving their cars, who cain't follow simple directions( turn-by-turn for some), or think they're special and can drive by the BIG white truck(with it's lights flashing, like a dope dealers pager at a crack house picnic),and the 321lbs fireman(in his highly reflective,get down-disco model bunker coat and shiny black fire helment) standing in the middle of a major thoroughfare like he ain't got good sense, and go wherever they're going because its more important than everybody else's tiny insignificant little lives. But also apparently one in a firetruck.

My better half tells me that "I" have "Road Rage" and I ever-so gently inform her that it's not "Road Rage", "IT'S STUPID RAGE".

Actually I don't suffer from it I enjoy every ^*%$#@!*&^ minute of it.

If you don't believe GOD has a sense of humor just look around you or at a platypus.

COURAGE:
being the only one
who knows you are
scared

My wife,My LOVE.

The greatest event in my life was meeting her.

She gives my life balance

She's the one on the left.

Ain't got a clue as to what I'm doing here, but just like life and marriage "jump with both feet".

At forty I never thought I'd do this but my wife wants me to try.