A Little Stool...

This is a little stool that I made out of a piece of wood we cut while cutting firewood.  As you can see, it was sooooo easy.  The top is only 1x12.  I suppose you could even use it for a end table if you wanted!

Homemade Toy Box...

If you would like my homemade plans, be sure to check out my "plans for sale" page!  I built this toy box recently without instructions.  Sometimes that's the way things turn out the best is when you just start screwing screws and gluing boards and pretty soon you have something.  I could probably do it in half the time if I were to do it again, since I know "how" to do it. 

Funny Video...

 

This is my mom and dad!!

A Found Picure......

I found this picture of Braiden today...I thought it was so funny! I don't think he was having a good time in the sprinkler.

Got Railroad Spikes?

On Wednesday we went up to our friends the Jacks' house.  Luke(the oldest and youngest son)and I went down to the railroad tracks and walked for hundreds of yards looking for railroad spikes.  Then Isaac, Braiden, and Jude came with us the next day doing the same thing.  We ended up collecting 371 railroad spikes!!  That's 256 lbs! 

Lots and lots and lots of railroad spikes!

Deer Of 2011....

These are "a few" of the trail cam pictures I got this year of our future table scraps.  There is normally corn on the ground where their noses are, but somehow I picked all the pics where they had eaten all of it already.

This is a very small buck that I haven't seen since I got this picture...

Same buck

It's interesting, look at the difference in his body structure vs the does body structure.  Lots more meat on him!

This doe has a strange stance....

a little fawn

Looks like they invited a friend

Doe: Hey-kids.....did you hear something?  Fawns: (crunch, crunch)Why, no mother(smack, smack)

One of my biggest enemies when it comes to deer season!

Hey Mother, did you see that?!

Hurry, before those deer get back

So.........what's your name?

Okay, so those were some of this year's pictures, now for a couple of last year's(As you'll see in the next few pictures, my luck wasn't as good this year.)

If you study these bucks' racks, you will see that these are three different bucks.  Three nice bucks.  This one is a ten- pointer.

Look at his mass!

This one's tines were a little longer, but not as "big"

I thought this was a funny picture!  So there you have it! No joke.

Isaac's New Blog....

My little brother (Isaac) has gotten to the age now where he is allowed to have a blog.  So here is the link: www.isaacsisland.blogspot.com.  This is his first blog so give him some time to figure blogger out(I still haven't completely!) and he just might make something of this!:-)

Guess Who?...

Today is a very special day because...It's my Mom's birthday!

Here are a few trivia facts about her.

She is a great good amazing wonderful incredible very good acceptable commendable super select first-rate deluxe excellent super-duper superb superior worthy valuable positive precious "and anything else that means GREAT Mom.  

I'm so thankful to God for her and the part that she plays in my life.

Getting Ready.........!!!

   Oh wow, how fast this past year has gone by!  It seems like yesterday that we were at October camp.  But really, it was yesterday(plus 368 days). 
   We have been "preparing the deer" for deer season, which is right now. I'm seeing more and more deer on our property as the temperature is dropping.  This morning, when I went to feed the deer their breakfast,(corn) I walked up on two deer.  One went crashing through the underbrush and trees before I could get a good look at it, and the other just raised it's head and looked around, as if it was confirming if it was going to make a mad dash away from something sensible or not.  Once it's eyes locked on to the "frozen-in-my-tracks"outline of myself, there was no unlocking them.  It stared with eyes that seemed to pierce right through me for probably 10 seconds.  I was so still.  Then, I did the unthinkable.  I dropped my "deer breakfast", and sprinted towards the doe.  The half of a split second she saw me move, she was off like a shot.  I ran, she ran.  She turned, I turned.  At one time, I got close enough to touch her.  Then, the doe, build for sprints, not marathons, started slowing, as I just got faster.  Finally, I got so close I leaped for the doe's ears.  Slow motion..................Just kidding, that didn't happen.  Everything was true all the way up to the words, "then I did the unthinkable".  But this is true.  Once she saw me blink, she was gone, snorting all the way back deep into the woods.

Now we are......

Home.  And glad to say it.  Four days after we got home from an 11 day vacation, we left for camp which was very fun.  But now we're home to stay....for a while anyways.

BTW, here is how Jude used to smile when he was little.  So hilarious!!  But he is very handsome now, and never fails to have a scratch or a bruise or a nick or a scrape or a cut or an injury somewhere on him.