Anticipation

So here I sit at “The Deuce” and it is snowing and blowing out where the airplanes cannot take off or land. The wind is howling around town creating snow drifts 8 to 12 inches high and I am just looking out the window admiring the scenery and how beautifully innocent and yet so desolate it is at the same time. The people in town are itching to leave and the new ones that came in are itching to settle down. Town is a cornucopia of people wanting something better but selfishly it is for them alone and not for the betterment of the town or the population. Most want to leave the wonderful landscape of the “mining town” they have so much animosity for due to the lousy food or the lack of night or the lack of smell or the lack of dreams. I on the other hand am content with the “mining town” right now. I know that in 10 days the population will go down 825 people to about 200 and then in a little over 3 weeks the population will be down to 170 or so. I look forward to my fellow firefighters leaving to go on their vacations or to go back home to see family or fix their flooded basement. But for some they are looking forward to going home so that they can start their life into a new track. One firefighter is already on his way home to propose to his girlfriend and hopefully she says yes. I truly am looking forward to them all leaving so that I can work 7 days straight covering the airfield for their departure. To seeing the South Pole firefighters coming back into town and to see “Cap’t Howie” for what will be the last time in months. I look forward to getting settled into a routine, and to becoming bored, and to learning my Italian language, to getting my beach body back, to…. Well I look forward to it all. I did not take a vacation that was offered to me so that I could have the whole experience of being on the ice for 14.5 months, from August 24th 2009 to October 15th 2010. I will keep in touch with some, some others that I want to keep in touch with will undoubtly become causilities and finally some I will just plan old not talk to at all.

I am sad that my friends are leaving, some a few more then others.

Take care,
Stay Frosty
-C