The Director of the White House Military Office authorized and approved an updating of the file photo of one of the planes that is designated Air Force One when the president is on board. The plane flew very low over Manhattan , near the site of The World Trade Building stood and near the Statue of Liberty. Apparently all federal and local authorities were notified but where under strict orders not to disclose information to the public about it. Buildings were evacuated and people who will are still and will always be traumatized by the 911 attacks were sent into a panic. Apparently therapists phones have been inundated by post traumatic stress patients with panic attacks and high anxiety levels. A class action law suit is pending against the government. President Obama was furious when he heard about the idiocy of what had happened. I hope some people get the boot for this stunt. If you would like to watch what people saw I have the clip below. When I watched it I got a funny feeling in my stomach. I can't imagine seeing it happen in real life.
Today is Baylee's 5th Birthday. She is getting to be a big girl but she still likes her princess things. We celebrated her party yesterday so that everyone could attended the party. Here is a few pictures of her special day. I love you Baylee and I hope you had a wonderful birthday.
Here is the flooded woods just South of where I was hunting. We got a lot of rain the weeks before the hunting season.
Thursday morning marked the first day of 4th turkey season. I was the one of the lucky ones to get a tag for this season and was excited about my first year of turkey hunting. The first morning when I walked in I did see one turkey out in the bean field and as I walked to where I wanted to set up my decoys, he walked into the woods and was gone. I heard a few turkeys in the distance gobbling but they seemed like miles away. I tried a few set ups but nothing seemed to work out. About 10:30am I sat down to eat a few snacks that I had packed along. Ever so often I would hit the slate call and just listen for a response. After a few minutes I hit the slate call and heard a call back. At first I actually thought it was another hunter calling back at me but in a few seconds the sight of 5 turkeys rounded the corner of the woods. I got excited as they walked by just out of range and off into the woods. If I had known this would be my only sighting of the elusive birds I might have tried to take a shot then but I waited to try to get them in closer. I did manage to get a few pictures while out in the woods. I also got some video footage of the turkeys I did see. Friday started out slow and it just went down hill from there. The wind kicked up and I couldn't hear anything in the woods. I called the hunt off early making it back to the house before 10am. Friday afternoon we ventured North to Baylee Ella's B'day party but that s another post. Saturday morning I again got up dark and early to make the half mile walk to where the turkeys live. As I walked to the woods I heard 2 bunches of turkeys and made the wrong decision on which one to go after. The ones closer to me were across the large ditch marking the Eastern property boundary. Other than being a feeding station for hundreds of mosquitoes, I heard a few gobbles but that was it. The wind was already blowing and as the sun came up it just got worse. I called my friend to get the forecast for tomorrow and was informed that the forecast gave for wind gusts of up to 21 miles an hour for Sunday so I decided to call the turkey hunting season over. We returned home and have settled in to relax the rest of the day but tomorrow holds laundry and mowing.
Here is a furry friend that helped entertain me while setting in the woods.
Hot on the trail of this critter . Unfortunately I was too far away for a shot.
One of the signs that the turkeys has been here. The trees in the area were a bare of leaves around their bases. Another sign that turkeys have been there.
This is me in hunting mode. I set this shot up with a timer and hurried into position for the shot. The ladder behind me is Needle's Uncle "B" deer stand. This is the stand I harvested both of my deer last year.
The 2009 Turkey hunting season is over and I wish I would have had a little more luck but we will see if there will be a 2010 season for me.
About a month ago a "so called friend" called and asked about digital cameras. I told him what I knew about them, which wasn't much, and told him that going from film to digital would be a dream. It really hammers on the immediate gratification thing that I love. Anyway he was trying to select a nice camera and so he started doing research. He ended up with this little beauty and already had the lenses so all he needed was the camera body. A few days later he had purchased his first digital SLR and a few days after that he was taking shots of critters (bald eagles) to his delight. Why within the first week of owning his camera one of his photos was published on a Southern Illinois Tourism website with credit to him. All in all I seemed unfazed by this whole ordeal and then one day out of the blue I found myself thinking about my friends camera. OK there is a little back story here so let me add. Just after he got his camera he wanted me to come over and show him how to use the new digital crack infested pry it out of my fingers because I wanted to take it home camera. After a few hundred shots that seemed to be a little off we traced the issue down to a faulty 2x telephoto lens. Anyway after we removed that we were snapping pictures left and right that made me think and like and crave....Maybe a little too much. Telling my friend about our upcoming vacation wasn't any help when he offered to let me take the camera with me...Did he not know that if I took this camera with me I would probably never return and he would never see his new camera ever again... Now back to the story and the reason for the title of my post. I have now begun stalking the same camera on eBay and have pretty much decided that I will be purchasing one shortly. The only problem now is that later next week I will be turkey hunting and if I order the cocaine camera now it will be most likely delivered when I am gone. No way am I letting this item set on the front porch for more than a few hours. Anyway my friend started looking for a new camera and now has flung me head first into camera lust. Hmmm this seems like a similar story that happened between Jenny from the Blog and Needlefingers. You should ask Needles about it. Have a great weekend everyone. Especially you Bart... Can I come over and visit the camera.....please?
For what seems like an eternity the small hospital I work at has been working on a long needed upgrade in my dept. It has been a lot of hard work, not by me but by mostly my boss to get this project off the ground and moving in the right direction. It was scary a few times and I was afraid we weren't moving in the direction that we needed to but finally a decision was made and we got back on track and headed down the path to get this project approved only to have several more hurdles thrown up in front of us just moments from the finish line. I got an email from my boss last night that stated we have cross the finish line and now the work to implement new and better technology will hopefully be the only issue we have to deal with. I am excited as to what this will mean for the department with streamlining work flow for all involved. I am glad we are finally making that step into a filmless future.
Last night Needles and I started our preparations for Easter and no Easter is complete without coloring eggs. So we started with a couple dozen.
Then we got the color tablets dissolving in vinegar.
Going for a quick dip. Here is a picture of one dozen of the final product.
All we need now is the Easter Bunny and family.
Today Needles and I packed up and went South to have Easter with her family. We enjoyed Ham Ala Kristi with cabbage slaw, al gratin potatoes, asparagus casserole, deviled eggs and home made rolls. For dessert we had raspberry pretzel salad. It was a very good and of course I ate too much. The sky started to cloud up so I thought we better head home because I had 2 lawns to mow and a load of laundry to do before my head can hit the pillow. Here are a couple pictures I took while walking about today.
As you read in my previous post we went to Fine Dining Friday last Friday but what happened the rest of the weekend? Saturday, Needles and I slept in per her B'day request and then lounged around the house in our PJ's until Rudy, Brando and the Funky Bunch stopped by to invite us out to eat with them for. We scrambled to get dressed in clothes more suitable for public viewing and off to the Trace Inn we went. Needles had the Blackened Salmon and I had the Catfish. Thanks Rudy and Brando for treating us to a lovely B'day meal. It was very good. After dinner we were invited to visit at Rudy and Brando's and watched a movie. On tap was Changeling... It was a good movie but the subject matter was depressing and to think this actually happened to someone is horrible. Sunday morning we woke up around 7:30am and thought I would sleep a bit more. When I opened my eyes around 8:30am I thought it was 8:30pm. It was almost dark outside with the storms approaching. We headed South to Needles Mom's house for her B'day party with her family. Pork steak and Sauerkraut was on the menu and we had a nice visit with her family while the rain poured down outside and before long it was time to return home. Sunday afternoon was time to catch up on laundry in preparation for the return to the work week. I hope everyone had a nice weekend, even though the weather wasn't so nice.
Today after work I drove over to the big city and meet Needles at work. We had a dinner date. A fine dining Friday dinner date. The menu was Cream of Broccoli Soup w/ Tillamook Cheese Salad Mixed Field Greens tossed with Crumbled Bleu Cheese, Glazed Walnuts, & Balsamic Vinaigrette. Your choice of Herb Roasted Chicken Stuffed with Washington Caramelized Apples & Sweet Onions or Baked Tilapia and Shrimp En Papollote with Julienne of Fresh vegetable Served with Roasted Red Potato and your choice of Iced Tea, Lemonade, or Coffee. Dessert was Creamy Blackberry Marbled Cheesecake. Needles had the fish and I the chicken. Needles said hers was rather bland. The chicken was OK but sweet with the apples and onions which is not really my taste. After the meal we returned home to collapse on the couch and enjoy the start of hopefully and very long and relaxing weekend. Have a good weekend everyone.
