Back to the grind

Thanksgiving week is now over and it's back to work Monday morning. Somehow, even with 4 1/2 days off, they still seem to fly by. The days were almost a blur of activity, plus it didn't help that I've had a head cold all weekend either.

Thursday was spent getting ready and heading to Billings for the evening with Jason's family. It turned out to be only his family and grandparents. His other relatives can't make it due to distance. Friday morning we got up and hit the sales at 8am. Billings was quite congested with people. I hit Michaels and bought some Christmas decorations and a door wreath. Jason bought an ear piece for his phone so he can drive with both hands now and do business. He's a gadget geek. We hit a couple of other stores for some business supplies and we left to get back to Cody to take advantage of a Carhartt sale. Again, Jason needed a new work coat and pullover. We then met with some friends at their house in Meeteetse for the evening. Sorry I didn't stay Faith.
Jason went hunting with another friend Saturday in Shell Wy. He was going for birds. He fell through the ice a couple of times and got wet along with his gun. He didn't get anything but had a few laughs at the older guys trying to hunt. Sunday was the usual day of church and vegging at home.

So now it's Monday morning and I'm hoping I can stay awake. It's only 21 school days till Christmas. Wow!

Winter is here!

For how long we don't know but we got our first substantial amount of snow last night. Driving 25 miles this morning was a little nerve racking not knowing how the roads were going to be but I did survive. My many years of Manitoba driving has been an asset. I could have skated to Cody at about the half way point on. Luckily no accidents that I saw. People need that first good snow fall to remember how to drive and not to be in a hurry. I pulled up the same time as a guy I work with and we were saying how driving on a sheet of ice should be an olympic sport with our top speeds at 40 m/h.

Well, this is the US thanksgiving week, so as a result I get 4 1/2 days off. School's out tomorrow at 11:45 am and we don't come back till Monday. A break is much needed by all. We'll be going to Billings on Thursday to be with Jason's family. Friday is the dreaded Black Friday shopping day where some stores open at 4am for shoppers to get some serious sales if you don't mind the rush or potential bodily harm and parking nightmare. We don't have this in Canada. I wanted to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some ideas and prices for a bathroom redo. Nothing too major but it will cost some money. We sold some furniture to get some extra cash for the remodel. I'm still waiting for my laundry room to get textured and painted so we can bring our freezer over from our friend's house.

Deer, Deer, and More Deer

We got our new furniture delivered and we love it. The table is the new bar style. It's something to get used to but it's kind of fun too.


Well it is that time of year again. The deer hunters are out and my deer hunter got a buck 2 weekends ago. He went with a bunch of guy friends for the weekend. They put in a lot of miles on horse back and some on foot. He met up with another friend, Jon, who Jason helped get him his first buck. He was so excited.



This was Jason' deer this year. On the right side of the deer(your left) one of the tips of the tines kind of blew up and had about 4 or 5 points, so that made it a non-typical.


Yesterday, we both went out with our friends Bob and Kim Moulten. We were going to just drive around and see what deer were out. Well, we came on this huge deer and Kim got out and shot it in one shot. Not to be outdone, her husband also found a huge deer.

We drove around all day after they both got their deer, looking for a big one for me. We didn't see very many others so we went home. I came home skunked. So this morning after some coaxing from Jason, we got up and left at 5:30am, drove an hour away started the hunt. We passed up one buck and thought maybe there was a bigger one. We came upon another buck which was smaller, but I was so frustrated already and didn't want to spend our sunday hunting, so I shot it. A very little 2 point. I'm improving on the rack size. Last year I only got a single point spike. So there is some more meat for the freezer. We got home, cleaned it, cleaned ourselves and even made it on time for church. Not bad for a busy weekend.

Here's the view from one of the top mountain roads we went on. Lots of snow and drifts in the hill but not in town, yet.