TIme Goes By....

So 2018 is already half way over. How is that even possible?  It only feels like we just celebrated Christmas. Now we are on to Canada Day and summertime. And like always, I'm back to only posting in this blog twice a year. Nothing new there, I see. Although I do happen to think often about posting on here, however nothing ever transpires from it.

Being that we are half way through the year, I'm going to do a recap on what has happened so far.
1 - Had another successful (haha) year at the tax place. Although being back this year, I realized again why I stopped working there in the first place. So this year, will definitely be the last year that I am there. It is too much of a headache, and in this year in particular, it wasn't worth my time. Majority of my time was spent on my phone, playing games and not helping clients.

2 - I bought a motorcycle! Specifically I bought a 2018 Honda CRF 250 Rally. Awesome fact about this bike (who will from this point on be referred to as Girlie). She has the limited edition black paint scheme, and her serial number is #1 in the edition. So that is pretty cool. I haven't put many km's on her yet. I have decided to take riding lessons, as I figured I'd get a better handle of how to ride it as opposed to having Justin teach me. He did try teaching me, but I ended up getting more frustrated than anything, which wasn't a good thing. Today, I passed the Motorcycle Skills Assessment (which removes the restriction of having someone supervise me while I ride). So in two weeks I will be doing the traffic portion, learning about riding in traffic. Then in mid-August I will be taking my motorcycle road test. So that gives me lots of time to practice between when I do the traffic course, to when I do my road test.

3 - In September, I will be going back to school part time (online) at Capilano University. I will be taking the Legal Administrative Assistant program. It's only been 14 years since I graduated high school. It is about time that I figured out what I want to do career wise. I am super excited for this program. It will take three years to complete (seeing as it is online and part time, as I will be continuing to work full time). Once I successfully complete this program, and have the grades, I can move onto their Paralegal position. Which I am also excited to do.

Other than those three big things, it has just been minor things. Competed in a couple archery tournaments (although we've really been slack on that lately), bought myself a new DSLR camera, went to Calgary to buy a new dirt bike (Mini Me) for Justin, been on a few fishing trips (some together, a couple solo ones), and have been working. Oh, and I also just completed my Occupational First Aid Level 2 for work. So I'm certified in that now.

I will attempt to try to post more here. I really want to start getting into photography more (hence the new camera) and I think here would be a good place to showcase my pictures. Although that would also require having more traffic come to the site. Otherwise I'm just doing it for my own enjoyment. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Until next time, lovelies!!

Archery Camping Weekend

Greetings and salutations!

Archery 3D shoots have been in high demand lately. April we had Chad Davis Memorial (placed 1st) and PoCo (placed 1st and Justin got 2nd). We have two shoots in May. At the end of May is another shoot at PoCo. However this weekend is the Shoot For The Cure camping weekend out at Sagittarius.  This is our second year doing this shoot and second time camping out. This year we have brought along Roman (at least for Friday night to shoot on Saturday) and Justins mom and dad have also come along to camp and shoot this weekend (at least dad is shooting. Mom is along for the ride.)

Right now it is Friday night. We are just sitting around drinking and talking right now. We are hoping that the rain stays away. Topic of choice is fishing. 

**So with this post I will be going through the weekend. I will have to post pictures later as I am writing this on my phone but will be taking pictures with my camera. Plus the Blogger app does not allow me to add multiple pictures to my blog. **

FRIDAY

Camping Under The Tree

On Friday we got to the campsite at about 630pm.  We originally planned to camp under the tree we camped under last year. So we parked our trucks under the tree and sat around drinking.
And then it started raining. It was okay under the tree for a little while but then we started to get tree rain. You know, the point in which the leaves can no longer hold water and you get fat drops of water. Not the most fun to be cooking in. So we ended up moving. We backed the trucks up to Justins parents motorhomes awning and opened our hatch/tailgate underneath it.  It mostly provided a dry spot to cook. At least it kept us dry.

SATURDAY

Roman Getting Ready To Shoot

Justin's Dad Shooting

For some reason when we camp we always wake up earlier than when we are at home. Not saying we sleep in at home, I am usually up just before 6am. But when camping we are usually awake at about 5-530. It can be really tiring. Anyways. After I make breakfast we head out to do round one. Round one our group consisted of myself, Justin, Roman and Justins dad. When we finished round one we headed back to the campsite to sit for a bit before going for round two. Roman had stuff to do at home so he did not join us for round two.

Justin Shooting

There was one difference between round one and two. That was the first target. First round it was just two turkeys sitting in front of a foam backstop. But because the rain decided to die down a bit, they were able to put the turkeys on a turntable. They moved our peg closer but now the turkeys were rotating.  Made for a slightly difficult shot. I missed with my first arrow but got one of them in the leg with my second arrow. 2 points is better than no points.
After second round, we grabbed some lunch at the clubhouse. Then Justin and I went out to do a third round. we made it back to the clubhouse just in time to submit our scores.

My Browning Camo Nails. Did them myself. It was hard

-----So this has been sitting on my phone for a while now. I am just going to leave as a cliff hanger for now and will hopefully get pictures up soon. Look for another post eventually about chasing trout over the May long weekend. Until next time...

Archery Season Has Arrived

Happy New Year Blog Readers!

I again apologize for the lack of posts. I currently can't get at my computer,  so I am using my new Galaxy S4 to write a blog.  We shall see how well this works.

We are still in the basement suite that I mentioned in the previous post. Have not yet been able to get the second bedroom organized so I can get my computer jn there. There has been a lot going on.  But I will save thst for another post. I actually have a post started on my computer but I needed to add the photos to it before I wanted to post it.

Anyways, todays post is about the first archery shoot of the year. This past weekend was the annual indoor archery shoot hosted by Abbotsford Fish And Game. I have posted about this shoot before.  I couldn't do Saturday's shoot due to work but I was able to do Sunday's.  It was a full days event. We got there at 8am snd stayed all through the awards. We were able to do 4 rounds on Sunday.  I would post our score carfs but I don't know how to add photos through the Blogger app.

Below is a photo that I took this year from the shoot. It was taken after we did our first round. The shortest shoot was about 14 meters.  The longest was about 45 meters. 

My last round was my best round. I didn't do well enough to get a ribbon though.  Oh well there is always next month at the next (new) indoor shoot that Semiahmoo is putting on.  Cannot wait for that one.

Anyways Bloggies, I am leaving you with that for now
I will try my hardest to get that other blog up. For now I get to go do dishes.
Keep it real!

Archery And Fishies

So this past weekend there was an archery shoot out at Semihamoo. It was just a fun 3D shoot. I had not realized that it was happening until I had gotten home from work on Saturday and Justin mentioned that Josh was going to take his nephew, Adam, to the shoot on Sunday and wanted to know if we wanted to go too. He also wanted to go fishing on Sunday so we figured that we would go early in the morning to do one round of the course (usually takes about hour and a half to two hours to complete depending if it ends up bottle-necking or not) and then go up to Stave Lake to try and find this creek that has some monster trout in it.
We had planned on being there about 8:30am, so that we could have breakfast there (the ladies always make the best food) and then get some shots in at the backstops as we haven’t shot in just over a month. Josh and Adam were going to meet us not long after 9:30 as that was when Josh was picking Adam up from his house. So we end up getting there at about 9. Have some breakfast and end up talking to Dick, whom we always shoot with at the range that we belong to. After a bit of conversation, we headed out to the backstops to warm up. My 20 and 30 yard pins are set up nicely. My 40 and 50 yard pins leave something to the imagination. We really need to get back into our rhythm of going to the range so that I can set those pins up properly. And start heading to the Thursday night shoots so that I can start figuring out my yardage again. Needless to say my shooting that day was not my greatest. I haven’t even tallied up the score cards yet. There was too many zeros for my liking.
One of the best shots of the day, Justin ended up making. We were at a wolf target and everyone had already taken there shots, and Josh told Justin to shoot the wolf in the eye. This was the resulting shot:

He got the wolf almost dead center in the forehead.
I was bored while we were waiting for the teams ahead of us to go, so I started having some fun with my phones camera and shadows. I like the second picture the best. It is currently the wallpaper on my phone, plus is my profile picture on Facebook.
 
After the shoot, we headed up to Canadian Tire so I could buy Justin a new fishing rod (I broke his a few weeks back when I fell trying to get out of a lake. I was more concerned for the rod than the fact that I almost smashed my head on a log). I got him a pretty blue one with flames on it (which I will be using until I get my own rod). We then headed up to Stave Lake to find this creek. We never did find the creek. So since we couldn't go fishing, we decided to buy some fish instead.

The pond in the backyard is in need of a good cleaning.
This is our pond. There are about 10 koi's currently in the pond. They don’t do a good job at keeping it clean. So we decided that it could use some plecostomus. So we bought two pleco’s.




 


                   This is them still in the bag before we added some of  the pond water to the bag to help balance out the pH levels.









Justin had the honours of pouring the pleco’s into the pond.

  One of them instantly swam towards the rocks deeper down, whereas the other one stayed up near the top. Here is his picture. He is really hard to see, but there is a pleco in the picture. He is the darker smudge that is in a kind of ‘u’ shape in the middle of the photo.

We haven’t seen the pleco’s since we put them in the pond. However the rocks are getting cleaner, so they are currently still alive. It is still rather warm out here so they can stay in the pond for the time being. Once it becomes colder though, the lady at PetSmart told us that they should come inside the house so that they don’t die over winter. The only problem I see with that is that we can’t currently find them. Hopefully when it comes time to bring them out, they are a bit bigger so that we can actually see them to catch them.

Good news readers! I have bought a camera charger. It is currently waiting at my PO box in the states. So I will be getting that on Monday and I will be able to get actual good photos of the following weekend as Justin and I are going camping for 5 days with his parents. Should be fun times!!
Ta ta for now!!

Just A Little Quickie

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to do a short little post before heading to bed to let everyone know that I’m alive. Things have been really busy around here lately. We have been in our new place for almost a month now. We have been really busy with archery events almost every weekend, placing quite well. At last weekends event, I came home with 2nd place and Justin got 1st, in our respective categories. This weekend we are taking a break from archery to do a CORE course to get our hunting licenses and then next weekend it is another archery shoot including a campout.

Lots of busy-ness for us. So much that we haven’t even finished unpacking yet. Anyways, I am off to bed as I have an early day of work. I shall do a better posting later once I have more time, plus pictures.

Tata for now!

I Can Kill A Dinosaur, But I Can't Kill A Moose

So this past weekend, was the first archery shoot of the year. It is BC's Largest Indoor 3D Shoot. Actually it is BC's only indoor shoot.

Justin and I have been going to the shoot for the past three years, but this is the first year that I participated in shooting also. It is the one time a year that we see different archer's from around BC, plus some from Washington. For example, our friend Dan is from The Nock Point down in Mountlake Terrace, WA. The only time we see Dan is at this shoot. We tried to get into a round with him but our timing just never worked out right. Oh well. There is always next year.

There is 15 targets in total. They range from 15 - 40 yards for the older people. They also have shorter range of smaller animals for children 12 and under. The furthest target of those is about 5 yards away.

This is a panoramic of a past shoot. I had my camera with me, but I never took any pictures. This is basically what the set up looks like. Each year they change what order the animals are in, except for the stupid moose. The moose seems to always be on shot 13 and it is the longest shot on the course at 40 yards. For some reason I could not shoot the moose at all. I have a 40 yard pin on my sight, but because my bow has a lower poundage, it doesn't have enough "umph" behind it to make it that far. I figured after our last round, that in order for me to hit the moose and not the wooden backstop, I would of had to have my pin all the way on the top of the wooden backstop to actually hit the moose itself.

At the end of the day they always have prizes and awards.

There is always little prizes like sights and rests. They also have prizes of a couple targets. And then the large prizes of bows. This year they had a long bow and a PSE Evo as the prize bows. We didn't win any prizes this year. It would of been cool to get the Evo though.

My favorite target is the T-Rex. He is about a 35 yard shot. And he was always a good shot for me. I don't know why, but I can kill the T-Rex quite well. This is what Mr. T-Rex looks like.  Except this year he was facing the right instead of the left. He also had a few wooden palm trees infront of him.

I think I did fairly well for my first time doing a shoot. We did three rounds in total. My scores for those three rounds were: 108, 73 and 74. That is out of a possible 150. Justin's scores were much more consistant at 132, 132, and 133. Needless to say, he is much better at it than I am.

This year we are going to try to go to as many of the shoots as we can. The rest of the shoots are outside, so that will definately be weather permitting. It will also depend on the terrain of the shoots, as with the hurt foot I can't exactly be galavanting through mountains and hills. There are two camp out shoots also. So those should be fun also.

Lastly, as I didn't take the photos, I just want to give credit to the person that did. I was able to find the pictures online here.

Happy Belated New Year To You

I have been terrible in writing my blog lately. Needless to say it has been rather busy lately, what with Christmas, New Years, being sick and family. I may continue to be on a bit of a hiatus due to some of the family stuff, but I will try my hardest to get on here when I can. I did already post a new blog this morning, although it is missing pictures as I am currently blogging at work. This post was originally written on my blackberry on January 8, 2013. I had written it upstairs at work before my shift started that day. Although I am going to have to read through it as I go, as some of the details are now wrong (such as the part that I have another blog to put up, but I already did that before I got to this one).

Lets start out with the family stuff. One of my brothers isn't happy with me currently as he thinks that I am stuck in life and wants to see me move forward. I should also, maybe, mention that he is also one of Justin's friends. He said that he isn't happy with some of the choices that I have made in my life, which I'm pretty sure means that he isn't happy with the fact that I am still dating and madly in love with Justin. My decisions. We love each other and make each other happy and that is really all that matters.

Anyways, in a talk that I had with my brother, he also mentioned that he wanted to see us get a new place and move out of my parents basement. Hopefully this happens a lot sooner than later. We had found a basement suite that we loved in the next town over. But after going through expenses closer, moving out there would not have been feesable. Yes the place was excellent (2 bedrooms, huge backyard, in suite laundry, really close to my best friends house) but money has to come first. It would of been a longer drive to get to work, plus with our work schedules I get off work 1.5 hours after Justin does so he'd drive home, sit for about 40 minutes and then have to drive back out to pick me up from work. So we are currently biting the bullet with our housing selection and looking for an apartment along with basement suites. We didn't originally want an apartment, but they are much cheaper than getting a basement suite. I have been checking out PadMapper for looking up places as they compile a bunch of sites together. I currently have a favorites list of about 10-15 different apartments that I want to check out. I am going to make a spreadsheet and compile all the information about the apartments (such as laundry info, do they allow pets, parking, cost, etc). and then go searching from there. I'm going to be a bit picky when it comes to choosing an apartment. Such as I want it to have a double sink in the kitchen (easier to wash dishes if  no dish washer) and I want to have a bath tub (I miss having bathes).

This year I have made it the year of changes. There is the first change of new place to live. Second is finding myself a new job. I am currently looking into accounting programs at different collages in town. I haven't done much research yet, but hopefully I can find something that I can online that way I don't have to quit yet. Wouldn't be able to afford a new place if I have to quit my job to go to school full time. There is also a few other changes I want to make. Such as updating my wardrobe, doing more with my scrapbooking and card making, getting back into archery more, and trying to be more active in general (while still keeping my foot in mind). I'm also wanting to start designing and saving for my next tattoo.

Well I think that is all for now. I shall get some more truck stories up soon, as my camera is getting quite full of pictures from us going up trails. Although we haven't been going as much lately because of the amount of snow up the mountains. Heck there is even a time where I drove up the mountain in the snow. Man that was an adventure. There aren't any pictures of me driving as Justin didn't take any. But there are some new pictures after we switched driving, as I had driven as far as I could comfortably. Yeah that will be a fun post to write about.

Tata for now readers. :-)