First Duck Hunt

Well, I finally went out on my first duck hunt this week. On wednesday, I headed north with friend of mine in an effort to cream the ducks. But wouldn't you know it...I didn't hit a single duck, instead, I nailed 4 geese, with one double (when you hit to birds in one session). It was great. so I thought I would share a few images of a successful goose hunt, that started as a duck hunt. The second picture is of me, getting ready to skin my first goose. We cooked them up and made BBQ goose sandwiches. They were great, thanks to Lee for finding a great recipe.

great weekend

Over that last little while, I've had the chance to visit with a family that was investigating the church. They are a really neat family of 5. These are the type of investigators missionary should really be praying to meet. They came into contact with the church because a member of the ward who lives by them was willing to take a little time, talk about their church life, and offer greatly need service. It was really an example of some just acting Christ-like to their neighbors. That Family will always be great examples to me. Well, they decided to meet with the missionaries, and quickly accepted the truths of the gospel. Because of similar ages, Lee and I were asked to get involved and help them out a church. I even had the great opportunity to sit down with them during one of the discussion to just answer some of her questions. they asked the good questions too. From Polygamy, to Blacks and Priesthood, to temple services, and 3 hours more. It was fun and educational for all of us. Last night, they got baptized. I was blessed with the chance to give a talk on the Holy Ghost (which I think was a very well written and presented discussion of the roles of the Holy ghost in our lives.) I was then asked to confirm this new brother today in sacrament. It's been a long time since I preformed the ordinance, and it was a great honor. I thank our Father in Heaven for the great opportunity we have to possess the truth of the gospel. I'm grateful for the Priesthood and the blessing it is.

Facebook

So apparently there is this new thing out there called Facebook. (I know it's not really that new, and I know alot of people don't like it). But some I know brought it up so I thought I would check it out. so I did. And guess what I found. it's actually quite handy. In just a matter of minutes, I have found a handfull of people that I hadn't heard from in years. Most of this people are from the mission field. I even found a couple that I baptized while in Toronto. They are easily one of biggest mission highlights. this was the family that I actually considered my mission family. They took great care of us throughout the remainder of my mission. I had lost track of them when they moved away from Toronto, and I came home. it happens. but with just a little time, I was able to find them. I'm excited to reaquint. It was something that I thought was pretty cool and I was excited to share. So if you are on there, Friend me. And don't worry all of you "internet is a evil playgrounder"'s... I keep all my stuff viewable to "friends" only. and yeah, that term might be a little to liberally used. :)

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Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving this year has been great. We had a lot of fun. I had a few days to hang out with the family so that is what we did. Turkey day was normal. Get up, hang out and eat, that kind of stuff. I was excited because I actually got to get out a do a little geocaching, and revive the fun of the hobby. Friday, Lee woke with and headed out to shop in the nightmare called "black friday". I don't understand how it can be considered fun, but she loves it. I finally got the kids out around 10:00 am, and bought paintballs. They had great paintballs half off, which made the good balls cheaper than the cheapie walmart brand. so I was stoked! After that we headed home. that's enough shopping in one day for me. That afternoon my Bro-in-Law and I hit the hills for some Clay Pidgeon Practice. that was immediately followed by PAINTBALL. We had about 20 guys out to shoot the tar out of each other. It was a blast. I'm glad that we had some fun. I'm already jonesing for the next outing. :)

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Trip to Vegas

So, we went to Vegas this weekend with some friends. Actually, Lee was hired to photograph a wedding down there. We were there for a couple of days and had a great time. While Lee and Misty took pictures, Dave and I hung like champions. It was great to have a good time with a good friend. As proof that we had fun, we ended up with a little video of our hilarity. While chilling on the strip we ran into a few M&M's and couldn't help ourselves. We wanted to enter this into the LG "life's good when" contest, but we were too late. oh well, it was still a blast! For more of a play by play, see misty's notes on the trip HERE

Dog Training!

Friday morning, before taking off on vacation, I decided to take the dogs out to see if we couldn't find a few pheasants. We (me and the dogs) headed out to a little piece of land I found along a little river. The advantage to this location is the the water was at the bottom of a 20-25 foot cliff. I figured this would help to keep my dogs out of the water and trying to find the scent of the pheasants. Well, the older dog, Sage, LOVES the water and she went right to work making sure she ALWAYS knew where it was. After walking about 1/2 miles along the waters edge (20-25 feet above) I start kicking around some tumbleweeds pilled next too some small trees and I look up to see that I only have 1 dog. I knew what had happened immediately and it was confirmed when I heard a loud thump and splash within a second. I hurried to the edge to see if she was alright, and found her swimming in the river way below. It appears that Sage had gotten too close to the edge and it gave way. There was about 2 feet of ground that the bottom that I think she landed on before falling into the water. The biggest pain was that I had to walk back about 3/4 of the way to find a place that she could climb out. STUPID creature! I hope she's sufficiently trained. We'll see next time.

Life...The TV Show

This year, I have my favorite new TV show, LIFE. It's quite intellegently written, and I enjoy the back story and well crafted cast. But the back story is quite confusing. Thinking that this might turn into an ARG of types I started looking around and found a few little websites for the show that all lead back to the shows official website at NBC. But this was one that made me quite curious.




This is the center page of http://www.whoframedcrews.com. Like I said, I thought there might be more behind the story and the picture might have clues. So I dug around a bit and found that the Inmate Booking Number did turn up. It's actually quite a famous booking number.




Just so no body thinks I'm a totally BS king. Check out this link if you think I'm making it up.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940627,00.html.

Anyway. I just thought it was funny, and I don't know whose idea it was to use OJ's booking number, but I'm laughing. thought that I would share!