Late Season Duck Hunt

This is only my second time to duck hunt so I am learning, early season they fly in on the decoys really well but late season they are more skiddish. Most shots today were 45-50 yards. A lot different than sitting in a tree stand with no movement for hours. I like the variety of ducks in this area, we shot 4 different types today and saw several more.

A true Texas snowman

Snow in Texas?

Buster

Texas Pork

Halie and I finally put down a Texas Porker today, we had about 13 come in on us at about 40 yards.

Halie at the Renaissance Festival

Family Pics

Halloween Pics

Here are a few from halloween night....

Cub Scout Camp

Nick, Nate and I spent a day at Camp Urland in Woodville, Texas. Good fun...

Halie Cheerleading Pics

Pics near my huntin' spot

Bow season opens here on Saturday 9/27. I am stoked. Look at what these wild hogs are doing to the ground around one of my feeders. This was flat dirt two weeks ago, now it looks like someone ran a tiller through it. Close to time for a Texas BBQ !!

First Teal Hunt

The one highlight of the downtime during the storm is that I went on my first Teal Hunt ever. The day started about 0530 getting in the ground level blind, at first light the Teal start dive bombing the decoys. Teal fly as fast as doves, maybe faster. Anyone who has hunted them will know this. The action is fast and furious, the limit is four per person. Daylight came at 6:10am and we had a limit by 6:25am.

Can be very addicting....

Hurricane Ike

Well we stayed and it was rough. The winds starting coming around 6pm on Friday, they got really hard around midnight, maybe 80 to 100 mph. The gust were the worst, it felt like the windows were going to blow in even though we boarded up.

We stayed during Ivan in Florida, he blew hard like this but not for as long. At noon the next day we were still getting 70 mph gust. I will add more pics later, for now we have to rebuild the fence and replace some facia board.

The baby squirrel was found in our backyard. Cheryl is trying to nurse him along.

More pics from the Safari.....

The middle picture is a baby Llama that they told us was born the day we were there. It was very small and wobbly but the kids loved it !

San Antonio Visit

We went to visit Chip and Jackie while we awaited Gustav (which did not even rain on us) although they called for a 3-county mandatory evacuation where we live. Anywho, we had a really good visit. Cheryl, the kids and I had a great visit with Chip and Jackie. We visited the Natural Bridge Safari. A drive through safari where we saw all types of exotic game animals. Many of them will come to the car and eat from your hand.

http://www.wildliferanchtexas.com/

We cannot outrun Hurricanes ! Go away Gustav !

Just when I got good at boarding up the house in Florida we moved and I had to learn all over again. What happened to the good ole' days when hurricanes went to Florida ???

First Day of School in Texas

Our Big 4th Grader on Day One !

Big Nick on the 1st day of 1st Grade
Big Nate 1st day of 1st Grade.

They all had a good day, claim to like the teachers. So all is well.

Game Cam

Taken this week, coming in early in the a.m

Daisy Red Ryder Legacy Lives on....

Nate and Nick armed with their Daisy Red Ryder BB guns, awaiting the presence of anything that moves !

New Truck

Well I finally moved past my experience with Dodge, guess we never stop learning ! We bought this Ford yesterday, 8/8/08. The four-door is very practical with the kids.

Corn Thief

I knew the coons were stealing our corn so it was just a matter of time before one got caught.

The wind follows us....

Eduard is here and blowing, wind gust up to 65 MPH. Why not Florida?

Johnson Space Center in Houston

We had a great trip to the Johnson Space Center with Grandpa and Grandma "H". It can easily consume a full day. I have more pictures to attach later.

Boy and his best Friend

Nick and Buster

My Hunting Buddies