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Welcome to the NEW JB Ranch Blog!
HEY!!! Congratulations – you found the new home for JB Ranch!We’re trying out a new blog service which may allow for more frequent updates…so check back soon!
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Extrication Class
We spent both Saturday and Sunday at a Firefighter’s extrication class. On Saturday we broke into teams and practiced tearing apart cars with different types of tools and then Sunday we had to run through full scenarios to extricate patients using all the skills we learned the previous day. The course was led by several […]
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Emergency Room Rotations
As part of the EMT Basic requirements, we had to complete at least 8 hours in an emergency room. It just happened to work out that we could complete a rotation at the same hospital on the same night! Here is Brad looking studious in between patients. And here is our assigned nurse transporting a […]
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Bailey’s Diagnosis
We procrastinated most of the morning but there was no denying it…Chuckie’s fences just had to be fixed. We finally rustled up the motivation and headed out to the back only to find Bailey struggling to breathe. She was wheezing and coughing (she looked just like Jodi during an asthma attack). We immediately called the […]
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Drinking & Driving Don’t Mix!
Brad did another ride along with the Molalla Ambulance and had a very busy night!
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Chuck’s Great Escape
So Brad went out to feed this morning and noticed that we were short one cow. He looked around for a while and found Chucky in the neighbor’s pasture. Apparently Chucky decided he wanted to play with the neighbor cows. During the storms a few weeks ago a tree fell down across a fence bordering […]
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All Bundled Up!
Although we’ve gone a few weeks without snow, it’s been VERY cold! Even the horses have on their heavy winter coats!
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Tigger’s Christmas Present
Joan (Brad’s Mom) gave Tigger his very own Beta fish for Christmas! Thankfully, she made a cover to go over the fishbowl so that the cats can look without getting TOO close. Here are the cats hanging out with their new best friend…Nemo! And here’s Nemo…
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2009 Is Off To A Wet & Fiery Start!
Around 7pm New Years Day evening, we received a page to help support the Estacada Fire Station. Because of the significant amount of rain we were getting, most of Estacada was under water. Brad responded on Engine 129 (Jodi stayed home since she had to work the next day, and very few people were in […]
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Christmas 2008
The weather let up in time for Cindi and Jean’s flight to make it in with little delay. During their visit, we all took a trip down the Willamette River on a paddle boat and had a great time (not to mention a little champagne!) Nermal even dressed up to play Santa for our Christmas […]
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