Ten Things Thursday

Decided to do a Ten Things Thursday courtesy of LauraBelle and the fact that my last couple of posts have been a little Debbie Downer : (

1.  I am going camping this weekend......yay! I am so excited!!!!  We are doing a mini olympic theme for the kids where each mom will be in charge of an event and the kids will get medals and prizes and treats.  It is going to be so much fun.

2. My dad helped me patch his little 3 man raft last night.  Fingers crossed the patches hold and we don't sink.  The best part (especially knowing my dad) when we started to inflate the boat we realized that the screw in plug was missing.  My dad being the inventive soul that he is wasn't going to let that stop him from making this work.  So he brought this out......

 

yes that is a cork, (as in once shoved in a bottle to keep from letting wine out of the bottle and then) wrapped in black electric tape.  Genious! no?   Hell if it keeps us from sinking to the bottom of Yuba lake I am game.  Now don't get me wrong, I will attempt to stop at a few stores to find a "real" replacement but it worked in a pinch and it will screw right into the hole.  My dad......

3. John is back from Australia for a while it seems.  A little girl I live with is beyond excited for this.  It was perfect because we were driving down the canyon one afternoon and she said "I hope buddy get's back so we can go for our motorcycle ride to see the fall colors before they are all gone" (yes the leaves are already changing) then she burst into tears.  That night on Skype she found out he was coming home in 3 days. She burst into tears again.

4. We took 5 tweens to Lagoon (local amusement park) from open 11am to close 11pm,.  I slept until 9:30 and my child slept until I woke her up around 1:30pm the next day.  It was a lot of fun but holy hell we were exhausted..... I missed my girl friends bridal shower because my brain was clogged up from....well okay I am a suckmaster friend and forgot until it was to late : (

5. I decided to trim my Pekingese, by myself, with clippers! let's just say it is a good thing she doesn't have regular public appearances because it would be shameful.....yes shameful indeed.  I think she would agree however that having 2 lbs of hair removed is cooler though.

6. Oh crap I almost forgot to share the most amazing thing that happened last time we were at my dad's cabin.  A little back story...My dad has a cow moose that has generation-ally  brought in a baby calf (or two) over the last 20 years, he keeps fresh water and a salt lick available to them, it is also very secluded where you can only see them if you are sitting on the front porch. They usually come in the very early morning and most the time he is the only one that sees them because we are lazy asses and still asleep. So we are sitting on the porch chilling out about 4 in the afternoon and my dad says "oh shhhh look" and points behind me.  I turn around and see this.......

2 huge Bull Moose

You can see the water and salt, dad keeps for them.

This is at the back of my dad's cabin. About 20 feet from where we were watching!

These bad boys hung out there for about 45 minutes.  At one point one got really close, he was munching his way towards us and then looked up and saw me and jerked back a ways. Nature in all its glory!

7. Another thing that we do at dad's cabin is drink beer shoot guns at target's off the porch.  You can see one of the targets in the first picture of the moose. Usually when the grand kids are there dad let's them shoot the single shot bb gun and pellet gun.  This time Kodie was the only kid there and dad brought out his .22 pistol and rifle well now my daughter is saving her money to buy a .22. I have a future gun lover on my hands. She was so cute. every time she heard the ping ping of the bullet hitting the target her smile just got bigger.

8. I have signed Kodie up for Hunter Safety to get her blue card and teach her SAFETY with guns.  I figure if she is going to want to shoot them then she is going to know all about them.  She is the same age my brother was when he and I took Hunter Safety.  She is excited.

9. I am so excited we are going camping this weekend...... oh did I already say that?

10. Well that is all I have!  Enjoy the hell out of the "last official summer" weekend.

xoxoxoTeri......

What are your plans?