Fishing trip April 17th

Bubba and I decided that we would take grandpa for a fishing trip last Saturday.

Although the fish were not trophy fish we still had lots of fun! Bubba is quite interested in the fish.

I guess he needed a closer look!

Bubba really liked petting the fish. We had about three on the stringer and he would say I want to pet the fish. So I would pull them out and he would pet them and then say ok put them back. Them a couple min would go buy and we would need to do it all over again.

It was a fun to watch Bubba get excited when he would catch a fish. Buy the way Bubba did catch the biggest fish! Thanks for going fishing Grandpa.

Ice Fishing with Bubba

I went Ice fishing last Saturday with a couple of friends. Bubba my 2 year old loves to fish. My sweet wife brought him down to me to spend some time on the ice.

Bubba with some of the fish we caught.

Apparently uncle Bill needed some help tending his pole.

Bubba got the hang of jigging, well sorta.

It was a fun day. I have not been ice fishing since i was in high school. This year a couple friends decided we needed to get into it. Reluctantly I did, but I have really enjoyed it. Bubba has been twice and loved it both times.

This article is interesting.

I think this guy has a lot of positive stuff going for him. I may not believe everything that he is about but he is sticking to his values and his ideas. To me
in today's political world people are voted into a position on one set of ideas and then work on a totally different set of ideas. In this case you have Peter DeFazio
who stands up for himself and his ideas. I like that, I wish more of our so called leaders were like that.

The fact that he is a pro gun Democrat makes him even better!!

What do you think of Obama's words to Peter DeFazio “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,”.
First of all I'm sorry I did not know Obama and Peter shared the same mother. Where I come from that is a brother!!
Joking aside to me it shows how vulnerable Obama really is, and how unprepared he is to be a president. I say this
because to me it is an open threat among his pears.

What do you think?



Pelosi, Rahm do not scare Rep. DeFazio - TheHill.com

This Guy is now on my Hero List.

I think she lost the debate what do you think?

Jibjab is at it again.

The guys at Jibjab are pretty cool check out this latest performance.

Ultimate Turkey

Let me introduce you to the best Dutch oven!

The Ultimate Dutch Oven

I have had this Ultimate Dutch Oven for about 3 years. It has been really awesome.
It is made of aluminum which makes it a lot better for cleaning than a cast iron dutch oven. The design
of the oven makes it pretty versatile the cone shaped center has holes that allow you to smoke your food while you cook it. The cone also provides the ability to have 2 shelves for cooking different items at the same time. Even though it is shaped a little different than a traditional oven you can still use it like a traditional Dutch oven. I have always wanted to cook a turkey in a Dutch oven but never have in fact I have never cooked a turkey. For Mothers Day I decided to cook for my beautiful wife and my awesome Mother, I guess I should mention the rest of the family showed up to join us. I started with a 10 pound thawed out turkey, then I made a rub out of minced garlic,dried parsley, oregano, salt, and cooking oil. I dried the turkey well inside and out, then generously applied the rub inside and outside of the turkey. Then I put the turkey in the oven with the cone protruding up into the turkey.
The oven lid is large but the turkey was so large that I had to cut one wing of and lay it beside the rest of the bird.

I placed the oven on the hot coals for about an hour, then I started adding mesquite wood chips to the coals. I added fresh coals as needed and after about 2 ½ hours the turkey was finished.

The oven resting in the coals

The Finished Turkey

This was the best turkey that I have ever eaten, the meat was so moist that it fell of

the bone. I really enjoyed the turkey and so do my family.

A day at the range with my brothers

The family took a nice trip to see my new niece’s blessing. It is like a 9 hour drive to their house, thank goodness our 18 month old son traveled well. It may have helped that we left at 4 AM. It was a great trip and she is such a good baby. Justin did a great job on the blessing and I was grateful to be a part of it.

My older brother lives in the same town. While my sister and her husband visited with their other family my younger brother and I snuck of with my older brother to the range. Sorry Justin Have to catch you next time.

My older brother has this nice savage 22-250 if you were going to call something a tack driver this would be it. Here is a nice pic to get your mouth watering.

I really like this gun, other than its left handed. It is so accurate this target was shot by my brother at 400 yards. I would say the little critter is dead. I believe there is 10 rounds in that hole!

We just had to take the recently finished ARs with us. These are some fun shots of us fooling around with them.

(IF you click on the photos they will enlarge)

It was a fun day at the range I look forward to the next visit.