Deer Hunt 2010

At the end of the fourth day of hunting Justin and I were hiking back to the truck and took a look off the other side of the ridge where we were parked. Within a minute I spotted a little buck under a tree reaching for some berries. After we hiked into him a ways I got the kill shot from 189 yards. He ran about 10 yards then dropped dead. It was a steep, gnarly hike over to get him and we reached him just as the sun went down. Here's a few pics:

He's not a trophy, but he'll taste great!

Tough drag out!

Halfway back. The "X" on the horizon is where the Jeep is!


Ready for processing.


Roadside maintenance, just for fun.
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Peggy in the news

Peggy and I attended a Trauma survivors luncheon yesterday at the hospital where she was taken after her accident in May. While we were there ABC 15 in Phoenix interviewed her for about 15 minutes and used some of the footage for their afternoon news show. Here's the video...

Charlotte's First Cross Country Race

This morning Charlotte raced in her first Cross Country race ever. The race for her group was 3/4 of a mile. She competed against 14 schools and 70 girls. She jumped to the lead within the first 10 yards of the race and just stayed there. One girl challenged her for the lead, but Charlotte just put the coals to it and left her in the dust. She ended up crossing the finish line 20 yards ahead of the second place runner and won the GOLD! Yay Charlotte!

Charlotte Leads From the Beginning


Charlotte at the Finish Line


Charlotte Accepts GOLD at the Podium
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation

I know times are tough, but if you've got a few extra bucks you can spare this is a great charity. Anything helps. They're caring for over 500 families of our greatest fallen heroes. Check out the website...

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Guitar extravaganza!

I know I've posted about Funtwo before, but someone on playlist.com finally upped some of his songs. I put two on my playlist - down close to the end. Check them out.

Cannon Rock is a rock guitar version of Pachelbel's Cannon. It's my all-time favorite song and I can't hear any version of it without getting emotional. There's another version in there played by Jerry C.

Enjoy!

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Our new baby

...well, okay, our new charity case. Meet Gale (like the storm wind). She's a purebred Red Doberman, just a couple of months old. This picture was taken a couple of days ago. She had her ears cropped today and is all bandaged up now.

She gets along well with everyone and loves to swim. She's especially fond of grabbing Rylee's collar and riding around on her back in the pool!

We can't wait for everyone to meet her. She's just as sweet as all the other Dobermans we've had.

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First day of school

We weren't on the ball enough to take pics of the girls on their first day back to school. Luckily our neighbor was thinking ahead and snapped a shot of our girls with her kids at the bus stop.

Charlotte and Klara in the middle with our friends Zach and Maddie flanking them.

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Go here right now!

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com

You won't regret it! Check the 'Awkward Family Pets' tab too! Don't forget to come back and comment on whether you peed your pants or not.

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Old School T-Bucket

I was at Fry's Electronics yesterday and saw this old school T-bucket. Holding true to the jalopy hot rod roots of the 50's there's a lot of homemade goodies on this rig. Check out the hand-made valve covers, copper water pipe breather risers, windshield frame and fuel lines, long-handled shifter, home-spun upholstery, oil lamp tail lights and transverse mounted leaf spring suspension and amateur paint job.

I'm not too partial to the excessively chromed-up T-buckets and Highboys you see these days. It's nice to see some true home garage work. Respect.

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ProFlowers

Peggy was sad that she missed the Mother's Day flowers I got her. They came and went while she was still in the hospital. Today she called ProFlowers and explained the situation. ProFlowers kindly sent her replacement flowers completely free.

That kind of service deserves a reward and the best I can give them is my word-of-blog referral...

Please use ProFlowers when you buy.

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