A Suprise Visit from the Calhouns

It was a treat to have my buddy Tim Calhoun stop in for a visit. I am just waiting for another trip to Alaska. Hopefully it will be with him.

Kendra snuggling with Laura.

I prepared a great bonfire.
My story must have been boring.

Everyone including myself had their eyes shut.

The Keepville Rhododendron Tree

Mom's Mothers Day Gift

Yes because of this I became my Mothers favorite son.

Now is I can only achieve this status with my Dad.

I have been shopping for an equally wonderful gift for him.

Playing Connect4 with Grandma

Mother's Day 2009

Getting Ready for Chicks and Gardening

One of our many Sunsets

The camera does it no justice.

My Birthday Party

This post will appear to be very bragatistical (is that a word?), but since it is about my birthday I will allow it. On the way to my parents I stopped to help a city drive get her car out of huge ditch. If this lady would have actually had brains she would have been dangerous. She was furious at the property owner for having such a deep ditch. After all someone could get stuck in it....well duh! Anywhoo....a nice guy came along with a jeep and a tow rope and I hooked them up and got in and drove the car while he pulled. I will post the video in another post.

Reading my sisters card in a lively manner at her expense.

I love the look on Kendra's face as she tries to help me look goofy.

I think Alyssa was imaging her taking a bite as well. This tradition of pretending to eat the cake started 20 years ago exactly. I was working at McDonalds and had a Big Mac cake for my birthday. I think you can figure that one out.

Two of my sweeties.

Coyotes in Keepville

Besides coyotes, we are overrun with red fox as well. Jeff Feldmiller shot this one morning on the way to work.

This is Music...

...from an 8 year old. We had heard you were not to give brass instrument lessons till all of their adult teeth were in. This blows that theory away (pun intended). Hat tip to Jon Delamarter.

Vincent's First Solo Dirt Bike Ride

Trying to catch up on my blogging......it is raining out and I was in the process of trying to get our roof leak proof and work on our plumbing problems. So I am working on our Men's Bible Study, catching up on phone calls as well as catch up on my blog. Here is Vincent's first run on Kenton's dirt bike. He now is an avid rider with Kenton.

Last Day of Turkey

My good friend Greg Hatchers owner of Hatcher's Game preserve (http://www.hatchergamepreserve.com/) asked to come over for the last day of Turkey season so Kenton could shoot a bird. We were in the blind by 5:30 A.M. and had gotten to bed the night before around 2 A.M. We had 5 gobblers come within 50 yards but they hung up and would not come any closer

Two very tired hunters with only 3 hours of sleep under their hat.

Our decoys.

Greg Hatcher - our guide and caller.

Chris Hatcher - Our videographer.

Penguins are the Champs!

The Penguins have done it again. It is great to have Pittsburgh such a great part of our lives. This brings back many memories of when they were winning back when I was in high school. Their logo is not as nice as it was back in the day. One year two championship teams. Now all we have to do is get the Pirates act together. They are only 4 games from first place.

My Un-Official Resignation from Keepville

My wife has written it after finding a 3' milk snake under our bed. It took almost 30 minutes to coax her back into the house. She is highly seriously thinking of packing on the Sabbath day. I asked her where she wanted to move and she replied "ANYWHERE!".