Hey Mr.! Can I have a new target backstop?!?!??!? I think it's time!
Maybe before you go back to work? It kind of has a smiley face.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Harbour Island, Bahamas: Part 2
I was finally able to get through the rest of the photo's from our Harbour Island adventure. Unfortunately, most of the pictures didn't turn out near as well as I had hoped but I guess that's just how it goes sometimes. Below are a few with a link to see the rest of them if you like.
Curt's birthday dinner
Bill, John, Mary, Curt, Renan, Jeanne & Jack
Sometimes doing nothing is just what a person needs. LOL
I went for a walk down the road that went past the vacation house.
Flowers are in continuous bloom on the island.
This bird would come in in the mornings for a drink. He never stayed long - just needed a drink.
Everything comes to the island via ship. The boat arrives on Wednesday with the locals unloading it on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Stores are then re-stocked on Thursdays and Friday's. By Monday store shelves are getting pretty bare, by Tuesday the shelves are R-E-A-L-L-Y bare.
This tree is famous to Harbour Island.
When the last hurricane came through and destroyed it, the locals found another one to replace it.
It sits on the flat providing incredible photo ops with sunsets. (Although, I never made it down to the flat at sunset.)
The sunsets were absolutely breath taking.
Rooster. The international symbol of Harbour Island.
Even the roosters are on island time.....never did I hear one at day break, it was always closer to 9:30-10:00.
Our rental car.
Everyone drives golf carts on the island. Thankfully ours had a feather helping us to keep straight just which one was ours.
All the pictures from this post are from my good camera, the reason many didn't turn out well. I tried to shoot all on manuel mode and I think I over thought it all. I guess that's how a person learns though. If you would like to see the rest of them, just click on the link below.
Cheers!
Monday, May 7, 2012
Gobble: Bang!
Got me a descent sized tom this morning; he was with 3 hens and still strutting. Not that you can see in these pictures, but he had a pretty descent beard, but his spurs weren't so hot. Surprisingly, he had a pretty good sized body. I weighed the breasts and each was 2 1/2 pounds. That's actually quite a lot of meat for a wild bird.
As usual, these are on self-timer mode. LOL
Friday, May 4, 2012
Harbour Island, Bahama's: Part 1
Our friends Curt and Renan from Pinedale called almost a year ago to ask if we could help them a "problem". Of course we said yes, prior to knowing what the problem was, and were assuming they were needing some help in the oil field. Turns out the "problem" was Curt turned 40 last month and decided rather than having a mid-life crisis, he wanted to go on vacation with some friends. Now this is a problem I am ALWAYS up for helping solve! So being the friends we are, we just couldn't say no, and found ourselves on Harbour Island in the Bahama's for a week helping to ring in Curt's 40th. Now this is my idea of a mid-life crisis!
Renan wrestling with the umbrella from her "fru fru" drink in the pool.
Harbour Island is famous for it's pink sand beach. Along with the crystal clear turquoise waters, it was breath taking. I've never seen such distinct colors before.
The Mr. on the beach, and my foot prints in the sand. Bill was taking a "rest" while I went for a long walk on the beach. It was needed after being in flight for long.
The house we stayed in. Thanks Curt and Renan!
Me with my bone fish and master cast instructor Bone fish Patrick.
Fish on! Patrick figured Bill's fish was about 5 pounds, a very large bone fish, but when it was about 20 feet from him, it got off. Patrick was so disappointed, he ran across the flat chasing it!
These are just a sampling of the pictures I took. All of these pictures in this post and associated with this post were taken with a new pocket underwater camera I just purchased and was learning how to use on the trip. You can see the rest of the pictures taken with this camera on my picasa sight at
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Easter
Bill was working again this holiday so I went North for a long weekend. I miss the big formal dinners we used to have in Pinedale on Easter, so cooking for all the guys up north gives me a fix. The Easter Bunny managed to find his way to North Dakota and Casey didn't even chase him away! :)
Sunday, March 4, 2012
I Just Don't Freaking Believe This!!!!!!!!
Last night I went to the local Safari Club dinner and fundraising auction in Rapid City. Now, Bill is at work, and I just had no intention of going, but he talked me into checking with some friends to see if they were going to go and if I could tag along. Well, they were, and, I did.
Africa was never a spot on my bucket list of places to go; all the time that Bill worked in north Africa he talked about me going over and meeting him on the coast so he could show the coast line to me. I just never had any interest.
Well, at Safari Club last night, I just bought my THIRD (count them third!) Africa adventure for pennies on the dollar!!!!!!!!!! This time, I got a 4 day hunt for 2 hunters, 2 non-hunting companions for 2 gemsbock's. And it includes the trophy fees for both animals! Not to mention the transfer from the airport out to the camp! REALLY?!?!?!??!??!? You seriously cannot go to Disneyland for what this the cheap-skate is buying this stuff for!
After I got done doing the happy dance, some guy came up to me and asked me if I was going to go along on this hunt. What???? OBVIOUSLY you DON'T know me! Of course I am going on this hunt. And not only am I going on this hunt, but I just might accidentally shoot Bill's trophy! You moron! Of course I am going and am going to hunt!
Conveniently, we shouldn't have any trouble co-ordinating this trip with the fishing adventure I just "stole", so I'm pretty much floating on air looking forward to not a only tiger fish trip but an African hunt also! Who'd a thunk this? Me? Hunting in Africa? Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you think if I asked these organizations to try to secure adventures to Alaska or Australia they would? Or do you think they would tell me they hate me and don't want me attending their fundraisers and continuing to "steal" their stuff!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Seriously, again?!?!?!??!??!?!
Well, as most of you know, I am a mentor in South Dakota Youth Hunting Adventures facilitated by the local Big Brothers/Big Sisters. This weekend has been SDYHA major fund raising event, organizing the Northern Plains Ultimate Outdoor Expo (an outdoor show) along with both a silent and live auction and gun raffle to raise money for the cause. You might remember that INCREDIBLE deal we fell into last year with the South African Photo Safari to Zulu Nyala. This year the deal of the century was a tiger fish fishing trip to Mozambique on the live auction.
Just as last year, NO one wanted to bid on this thing. Seriously????? There was so much money in that room, you could smell the hob knobbers. Bidding stalled out at the exact price (with me as high bidder) as what we paid for last year's trip so the guy that had secured this package stopped the bidding to talk it up and garner some interest. It worked - sort of. It stalled out yet again on my next bid, with the guy stopping the bid again trying to get some excitement built up about this package. OK, another bid comes in, and it stalled out on me again! I give them this bid only this time, I stopped the bidding to give this big ol' speech about how amazing our trip was last year and how stupid people are to not out bid me as we are just poor workin' folk with not a lot of budget to bid this thing up. Really.......bid on this thing! It's for the kids and think about what your return on the investment is!!!!!
(Now, you MUST realize, I am giving my bids on the 3rd "last call....I...." - somebody - bid on this thing!) I got outed, I'm great with that and the auctioneer comes back to me, so I stop the bidding yet again to find out how long a person has to book this trip thinking someone will realize what a steal this is. OK, we can deal with those parameters and still make our financial goals for this year happen so I say, OK, I'll give you that bid. REALLY??????????? Somebody....bid on this thing!!!!!
Just like last year....no one is really interested in this package and we come away probably with a bad reputation for stealing packages. Well, guess what....not my fault that ya'll don't know how to advertise your awesome cool stuff creating excitement to get bids to go crazy on the good stuff and not just the stupid stuff.....
We are going on a 7 day inclusive tiger fish fishing safari on the Zambezi River in Mozambique, Africa. Seriously????!!!?!?!?!? Again???!?!?!?!??
We can't afford to not do business with you all! Right now, I'm just really thankful that no one seems to have any interest in this awesomely cool stuff and we are getting these incredible opportunities!
Now, tell me, this fish doesn't look like fun to catch!!!
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