Kiddos Update

Well school is in full swing.  Z loves it and loves having her Grandma as a lunch lady. E took a while to adjust to preschool, but likes it now and talks about her teacher all the time and how she "miss mom" when she goes to school. Z tells me all about what she does at recess and her little adventures with STEM and she always brings home a chpater book for us to read. She is growing up So fast! I still miss her and enjoy when she has days off so we can go on adventures and do fun things. Sometimes into wish they could just stay home with me always and never go to school, but Z thrives with social interaction and it is good for E to be around kids because she has always kinda kept to herself and needs to learn how to interact with others.  He's taljing much MUCH better and never hummus her words anymore.  So I was helping Z with her homework and as I am looking at this math problem I was like "What!? She is learning algebra?! How am I going to explain that to a first grader!"  But she has got it down pat.  Smart little cookie should be able to be a vet for horses of she keeps it up.  E just loves belting out 'itsy bitsy spider's and ' wheels on the bus' and most recently 'old McDonald'.  Then she will say " loud one" after her little opera session.  Too funny them girls.

Muzzleloader for Me

Ok so a few weeks ago I had my muzzle loader hunt.  ( I figure that sonce the blood is the Horman hunters it only makes sense to post about my hunt.) Well the first day we ended up bringing the girls, which they both loved and continue to talk about, especially E, who always asks to go "hiking" and wear camo.  Z was so cute and during the week would add in her prayers that "mommy will get a deer".   Well we hunted every night of the hunt and we saw several deer and several bucks, but the spot we were at was like a black hole for deer.  3 seperate times we would spot a deer heading in a direction that would be obscured, but funneled to another spot that we could see, but then we would never see the deer again. We also had some nice deer we stalked, but again poof! Gone! And Jon is really good at spotting and seeing where the deer have moved to, and he lost them. So we are at a loss as to how they evaporated. Anyeay, another day the girls came with and they loved it, Z asking if she could shoot a deer when she is old enough. ( She also has a goal to shoot a boy deer, a girl deer, a boy elk, a girl elk, and a moose.  That's our girl!) Oh so on the second to last day of the hunt i was picking up Z from school amd I caught a glimose of movement across the street.  It was a doe, and what was with that doe? A fawn.  And what was with them? A freaking buck! That smug butthead just looked at me like "Yeah I am here and what are you gonna do?" ( Ducks head and started stuffing his face with someone's poor garden.) So yeah that encounter with Smug Buck pretty much summed up my whole hunt.  Anyway it was still fun and I learned a lot.  The very last day was so cloudy we couldn't get to our spot so we had to try to find a new vantage point. Jon spotted a decent buck and started a stalk, but again presto, gone! So no buck this year.  But I must say I have stuck to my guns and use an open site; no scope for this muzzleloader.