Sheila, deer...

Sorry I've been absent. I got a little caught up in "encouraging" my sister to blog again, and my kids have had a lot going on this week, so I've neglected my own blog.

My bad.

Anyway, there's been several times where I stopped in on someones blog where the writer has said something about not updating because they didn't have anything worth blogging about and didn't want to bore us, the reader.

I suspect they also experience times of boredom, and are probably very normal people.

I don't carry that burden. So, for my sister, Sheila - I liked your "Poem of Encouragement" from my last comment section, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick some more needles in that Voodoo doll I made of you. :)

Anyway, I'd said in Sheila's comments that I'd be blogging about "dorks" and "geeks", but I'm putting that on hold for a bit so as to get the fam caught up on what my chillun been up to.

So...
The Title Subject "Thing of Amusement" that you might be amused by but annoyed the hell out of me is... (drum roll)...

David stood on his bed this week. And put his head through the light fixture.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Now that the glass has been cleaned up and all the bedding has been rewashed and the bed is made again, even I find this funny. I mean, really! He's not that much shorter than me anymore, and he'll be 15 on Tuesday...which is a bit old to be standing on the bed unless there's a lightbulb to be changed!

Todd's been in the YME School's version of "Beauty and the Beast" which performed about 5 times this week. I took Friday off from work so I could check that out (and go buy hunting stuff for David) and I went again on Saturday. I've seen a couple of the other plays the school has put on, and they are incredible!

The music teachers really bring out the talent in their students here.
When I had a concert, we stood on those mini-bleacher things and sang a bit. Here, they sing and play simple instruments and throw in a little dancing and acting and mix in some comedy and it's just all around fun! Small schools rock!!!

(That being said, I still have to admit that Todd is getting a less than desirable grade for band this quarter as he doesn't go to his lessons or turn in his practice time. Brat.)

And I mentioned briefly that David was going hunting. I am extremely fortunate in that many of the guys at UPS are very much into hunting, and that I get along smashingly well with them.

Here's how it played out. Upon picking up the kids from their mom's last weekend, David said that he'd gone hunting up there. (With Step Uncle Ray.) He said that his mom was wondering if I would buy him a license so he could actually hunt this weekend.

Um, hello? I want to go back to Florida and hit the theme parks again. Think she'd buy their tickets? And besides, the hunting license is only $14!. (Plus, Uncle Ray has already shot a couple of deer this year and put them on licenses purchased under the names of people who didn't go hunting. I don't think this has become legal yet, so I really don't care to have my kids "taught how to hunt" from this individual. I told David as much, saying I'd be OK with it as long as it's not something where he showed up to go hunting and his tag would get stuck on something dead so his hunting was already done.)

I mentioned this to the guys at UPS, and immediately I had an offer from my friend Steve (previous owner of my old red warp speed riding lawnmower) to take the young lad hunting with him... and an offer from my friend Art (UPS mechanic and MN Archery - Champ Class for several years running) to set the lad up with boots and orange hunting wear!

So...I presented this option to David, and he stayed here. Steve dropped off slugs so David could fire off a couple shots to get used to shooting the gun, Art changed the gun over from shotgun to slug, I bought the license and gloves and hat, Art and Steve provided the rest of the clothing, Steve had David stay with his family for the last 2 nights so they could get out in the woods by 5am, and today I got the call from David saying he'd got an 8 pointer!

Steve and Art tell me the gun I'd bought for David upon receiving his "gun certification" training thing is a really good gun and has a rifled slug barrel. I didn't actually think the gun would ever be used for slugs, so this was good news. Of course, the slugs cost 3 times as much, but David apparently nailed it on the second shot. Steve was every bit as excited to tell me about it as David was, only they were in different stands so Steve's side of it was more from what he heard.

And the kindness from my coworkers is still coming in, as Steve was the one who got stuck gutting the thing and dragging it through the river and out of the woods, and Art is coming down from his town...over 1/2 hour away...to debone it (As soon as the football game is done. Go Vikings!) which will save me another $70!

I try to go out of my way to help my friends, but right now I'm really in debt!
So, gotta go. Gotta run some coolers to Steve's place as they should be back from getting the deer registered by now. Then I'll have to be making some cookies to share with a couple of UPSers tomorrow night! :)

Oh, sorry if you thought I'd mispelled the title. You might have thought it was supposed to be "Sheila, dear..."

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!