I'm in Belfast on a horrible wi-fi connection, so I'm not uploading all of the videos right now. I've got to get some of these up so Codge can see them right away, though.
Continue reading "Scout Cam Update 11/20/2009" »
My delinquency in updating is getting embarrassing. The scout camera, hunting season, my "weigh-in pledge"... none of those provide ample incentive, apparently. I'd like to thank my good friend Roger for hurling an epithet or two my way and nudging me out of my blogging torpor.
Continue reading "Poison ivy comes a creepin'" »
The weekend got off to a rocking start, with Joe and Ritchie coming over for some The Beatles: Rock Band on Friday evening. Joe, Angela and I played around with the new harmony thing using 3 mics and I realized that it would be PERFECT for letting the kids play along with us. As long as ONE of the 3 people hit the notes, the band gets credit.
Continue reading "Scout Cam Update 10/4/2009" »
I finally got a chance to head upcountry to tend to my camera this weekend. After a battery change, I was able to get the remote control to work so I could fix the date/time. Please disregard the timestamps on the following clips. Next time, they'll have the proper numbers. I had many videos of turkeys and a couple of does (and a skunk... and a cat...), but I'm only going to show the four buck videos. You've got to look quickly on a couple of them - you can really see a difference between the does and bucks in how much they'll tolerate the camera's red light. The bucks are much cagier.
Continue reading "Scout Cam Update 9/27/2009" »
This weekend was dominated by my friend Richard's wedding. Although the ceremony was yesterday on Chebeague Island and we got home late on Saturday night, it really did have a major impact on my Sunday. I'd like to thank my wife for driving us home.
Continue reading "On an island in the sun" »
I know that I just posted a blog entry last week, but I've come up with a compelling reason to do so even if it breaks my comfortable routine of waiting longer and longer between updates. No, it has nothing to do with North Yarmouth Fun Day, which went off pretty well yesterday. We had beautiful weather in the morning and it never really started raining hard until we had everything put away. The drizzle forced us to shut down the bounce house much earlier than we wanted, and the rest of the game area somewhat early, but I think that we still did ok. We seem to have blown through the prizes much quicker than last year, so that's all I'm going by. The numbers haven't been tallied yet.
Continue reading "The Weight" »
Here we are one week into September already, and I'm a week late making the weeks late post that I had promised myself. I guess my September recap will be just be that much shorter.
On August 8th, we hosted our first non-birthday party in years. It wasn't quite the same as our old Fourth of July parties, being lighter on adult beverages and heavier on pre-adults. There was a lot of Rock Band, some kids running under sprinklers, a tremendous mess in the playroom and overall - a good time for all. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to make it, but it was as close as we had come to having the whole old gang back together in probably four years.
Continue reading "August and Everything After" »