Archive for September, 2007
Colin’s First Fish
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Racoon Puppies
Monday, September 24th, 2007In July, while we were on vacation attending Cub Scout Day Camp, we camped next a bonfide trapper, a guy who makes his living dealing with problem animals. Well, he had trapped something that he didn’t have the heart to dispose of. Here it is:
Yes, that is a baby racoon and yes, it is sucking on a pacifier!
No Hormones Added
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007These ducks are two weeks old.
Building A Fort
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007They think we are building a fort.
Colin Goes to Camp
Friday, September 14th, 2007Colin was a stowaway at this years Cub Scout Day Camp. I was a problem parent. Who ever heard of a cub scout day camp where younger siblings weren’t allowed to attend when accompanied by a parent? Apparently, you are supposed to find day care for siblings now while you bring your cub scout aged kids to camp. Well, I didn’t follow the rules when I was in scouts and I’m not following them now!!! 
This is Colin after a couple days as a stowaway at Cub Scout Day Camp. He had just finished shooting a bow and arrow and was waiting to shoot a BB Gun. Luckily, he’s big for his age, but man he got tired!
Cub Scout Day Camp
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007I still take a lot of pictures with my film camera and I finally took the film in from some of our escapades earlier this summer. Here is a picture I took of a bunch of gangsters at Cub Scout Day Camp:
1st Day of School
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Didn’t you hate getting your picture taken by your mom in front of your friends on the first day of school?
Duck-Farm Gets Ducklings, First Time in Two Years
Monday, September 10th, 2007Since 2005, when we got our travel trailer and started going camping more often, we haven’t hatched any ducklings. Babies require constant attention. Baby ducklings require only a little bit less. But this past spring, something killed off almost all of the adult ducks in our flock. At one point we were down to three males and one female, all Buff Orpington breed.
The Buff Orpingtons are a really tame breed of duck, probably a little too tame for our area, which has a relatively high concentration of predators. So we are going back to the breed we started with several years ago; Indian Runners. They are much more flighty, so they will hold up better against hungry predators.
There is a lesson here….
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Don’t try to see how far you can ride your bike with your eyes closed, ever.
Great Day!
Thursday, September 6th, 2007When 2007 started I made a list of goals. One of them was to run a 50K. Another one was to catch fish with my sons. Well, I did the 50K in March and started pushing for a 50Mile Run. Over the summer, we didn’t go fishing at all.
We went camping at Blue Lakes, near Kirkwood, over the Labor Day Weekend. Since I have been feeling so wiped out lately, and since Blue Lakes is at 8200′ elevation, I decided to leave my running shoes at home.
And look what happened:
This picture was taken on the first day. CJ caught those three fish. The next day, he caught two more and I caught one. On the third and final day of our campout, we decided to go to the lake to fish for 90 minutes before we broke camp and left. In that 90 minutes, Colin caught two fish!
