Sunday, December 28, 2008

Adam's Hunt

Hi folks, this is Adam. I've decided to brag, I mean blog, about my last hunt of the year.
It all started with a long drive to my hunt unit down in Az. I drove most of the afternoon, on into the night finally getting there about 2 am. I was too tired to set up my tent, so I threw down my cot and grabbed a couple hours of sleep under the stars. Opening day was pretty uneventful, except for a slight knee injury. The next day I hunted in the morning with not much success, probably due to the bum knee. I headed back to camp and hung out waiting for my two brothers and good friend to get back from their hunt. We decided to part ways again, due to they were chasing deer and I was after buffalo. Thats right people Tatonka.
I was lucky enough to bring my little niece out with me, and after some sneakin around the woods, we ran into three, huge bull buffalo. After a few well placed shots one bull dropped. SUCCESS!!!!! Madison, my niece, to my surprise was super excited. She wanted to touch his eye and even held the enormous leg while I started to butcher it. The next day I got my deer. We had a lot of fun. I missed my wife though.





Thursday, December 11, 2008

Funny Story

Every morning at 6 am our alarm goes off. Adam needs to leave the house at 6:45 to get to work, and he usually gets three snooze pushes before he get out of bed. Our normal conversation is as follows:

Beep Beep
Me: Its time to get up.
Adam: What time is it?
Me: Six
Adam: Ok...zzzzzz

So on and so forth at ten minute intervals until Adam rolls out of bed.

Today's conversation

Beep Beep
Me: Time to get up
Adam: What time is it?
Me: Six
Adam: ok....zzzz

Beep Beep
Me: Its time to get up
Adam: What time is it?
Me: Bat ten
Adam: What?
Me: Bat ten
Adam: Are you speaking English??

In between snoozes I had been dreaming about Batman and apparently was not fully awake yet....

Monday, December 8, 2008

Its Christmas Charlie Brown!

One of my favorite things about the Christmas season is all the Christmas specials they have on TV. I'm not talking about the lame movies where Tori Spelling and Jenny McCarthy save Christmas and find true love, I'm referring to all the vintage cartoons specials that they play every year since I was born. I hope they never stop showing them because they bring back a little of that magic feeling you can only truly feel when you are a little kid at Christmas. Thanks to a little magic invention called tivo, I have been obsessively searching and recording all the Christmas specials this year. Here are 5 of my absolute favorites...

1) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (I always cry in the end when dirty-faced Imogene Herdman cradles Baby Jesus and they sing Silent Night. And how could you not love the movie that inspires my whole family to yell "Its almost Christmas Charlie!" as many times as possible on Christmas Eve?)

2) The Charlie Brown Christmas Special (I'm actually watching this right now and I can't believe how clever it is. I really missed the whole point when I was little-I remember them saying the word commercialism a bunch and not understanding what they meant. It also has the best soundtrack ever!)

3)How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I LOVE this show! The Grinch's dog is hilarious!)

4)Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Claymation, I don't know how to spell this, at its best. Herbie the Dentist is a stroke of genius and I love the Silver and Gold song)

5)Mickey's Christmas Carol (An absolute classic and another tear-jerker for me)

P.S. The neighbors upstairs are currently putting up their Christmas tree while wearing their moon boots again! I am going to turn Charlie Brown up as loud as possible and sing along as loud as I can to pay them back! I wonder if they are going to hang their moon boots over the fireplace with care...If so I'm asking Santa to steal them as my Christmas present this year...