Ready, Fire, Aim!!

This picture was taken back in October and I really like it, but had forgotten all about it until this weekend while looking for a different pic.  Caleb went over to my sister's house to help clean up branches and sticks from all of the tree's on their farm, knowing that there would be a lovely "little" bonfire that evening.  That is Caleb's sillouette in front of the fire.

 

The Epitome of Laziness!

Juno was in a sunspot (her absolute FAVORITE!!!) and would not go the 10ft needed to eat her food so Caleb moved it over to the sunspot where she wouldn't even stand up to eat...  what a bum!

 

Norwalk Track Meet, 2021

I know that you can't see Caleb unless you know almost exactly where to look, but he's the tiny little yellow dot about smack-dab in the middle of the picture.  He just took the baton hand-off from his teammate.

In this shot, he's a little left-of-center and there's another kid in one of the outside lanes who is ahead of him and another lad who is a bit left of the soccer goal that is obviously behind him.

Better perspective...

Right down in front of us he is passing that outside lane boy.

Looking good...

And now, after he handed it off, that's him bent over with his hands on his knees.

This clip is the end of the first boys run and then Caleb's giddy-up in the hurdle relay.  We lost by 0.04 seconds.  Sure looks to me like he wins, but we're at a horrible angle to determine anything.  And so be it, he did great regardless.

This is his 200m hurdle.  His heal was hurting bad after the first event and after a very long, cold and damp resting period, he just wanted to be done.  When they go by in front of us, that is him 3rd from the back.

Even though it was cold and damp, and towards the end, quite windy, it was still fun to watch the young men compete.  I cannot believe how fast some of these kids are...
 

Nice Night For Some Shooting

We set the little target back up and did some shooting since we had such a nice night.

 

Burning the Creek, 2021

This year we didn't take as many pictures as last year, but we burned a lot more of the creek.  We got some tough spots that would not burn last year so they were extra thick and a bit more susceptible. 

 

I had a smoked brisket resting inside and I needed to go tend to it.  This is our neighbor who is teaching Caleb how to safely ignite new areas with the torch.

Caleb Hates Art Class

I've seen very little of his art over the years and then in 7th grade, they do something like this.  Both Rob and Caleb hated this assignment, but I kinda like it. It got thrown in the burn pile so I preserved a picture of it before its firey fate.

 

Steve's New Habit...

Steve has always had a relationship with the space heater but just this week, the fuzz-butt started crawling between my legs while I'm working and lay in front of the space heater.