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...

Tax Season Is Upon Us

I don't know if I mentioned it in an earlier post or not, but I have gotten a part time job working at a tax office. I am (unfortunately) still working at the tool store full time. This is just for the tax season. I thought it would be something fun and different to do. Yes I just said that doing taxes is fun. I'm sick. I know.

With doing taxes, and my history of cashier jobs, I am realizing that I really enjoy working with numbers. So along with doing my accounting course online,  after tax season is done I am going to look into doing an insurance course.  This will allow me to make more money and get weekends off. Plus I would still be able to do tax prep during tax season.

Anyways, it has taken me three days to write this so I will quit for now. I keep getting interrupted. 

Until next time...

This is a rant

Okay. Take two of trying to write this post as the first one deletd itself.
This is going to be a rant post. And due to the above first sentence happening, I have foung another reason as to why I don't like posting from my phone. The first being that I can't edit posts as much as on the computer.
Anyways, so today already sucks and that is not good thing considering it is only 8:45am. Two things are pissing me off today. The first being our landlord being a freaking idiot. The second is work related.

So we will start with the landlord first.  The guy is so stupid. Since we have moved in, we have dealt with nothing but shit. It is getting extremely frustrating. He complains to us about his heating bill. Our two baseboard heaters are turned up full power and it is still freezing in our suite. I dont think he understands how cold it is in the basement. It sucks having to constantly be under a blanket. And because it has been so cold lately,  even though we wrapped the pipes to our laundry room in insulation, the pipes are still frozen. I now have to take laundry to my parents house. Its extremely frustrating.  The washer is on the verge of dying. The dryer doesn't always dry. There have been multiple times that I would of had to put the laundey in the dryer for a second time but haven't because it was too late to be running the machine as the clothes would then be really cold in the morning. 

Now onto the work rant. I cannot stand being at the tool store anymore. You get treated like crap unless you're related to the manager. Manager is addicted to methedone. Two of the other females that work here pretend to be nice to you then talk abour yoy behind your back.  I have had enough. I cannot wait until I can find a different job so I can leave this job. I could continue going but I don't have the energy to bitch right now.

Next post will be more cheerful.

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!

Here We Go Again

Hello People Who Read My Blog,

I have to apologize for the lack of posting lately. I have been meaning to get on, but life has been a bit hectic lately.

We had to move with only two weeks notice. We were able to find a place within one week and are now trying to get settled down there. Our landlord at the old place, his father passed away a couple weeks ago and his mom will be moving into the suite. Legally we would have two months notice, but he only gave us two weeks. After a few heated emails, we have everything all worked out. He owes us for one months rent plus damage deposit. He has also offered to give us $200 for moving expenses, but we'll see if we actually get that money or not. Mom and I are doing a final clean of that suite on Saturday and then have the final inspection on Sunday. I might email him and see if we can do the inspection on Saturday after we finish cleaning, as mom and I have planned to go to the States on Sunday.

So along with moving, we have also been trying to buy a new vehicle. I was going to trade the Xterra in for a Jeep Rubicon,

This is what the Rubicon we had picked out looks like. Commando Green.
Four door. Came with hard top and soft top.
Loved it so much.

but the finance companies think that I have too much debt against me so they wouldn't allow me to get one. And then Justin was trying to get a motorcycle so that he would have his own means of transportation instead of always sharing the X, but he doesn't have a good enough credit rating. So we will have to continue sharing the truck for now. He is going to be taking the truck this weekend up past Boston Bar for Josh' birthday. Which is why I'm going with mom to the States on Sunday. But that also means that I get the truck next weekend to go out to Burnaby for girls night. Yay girls night!!

As for right now, I am sitting upstairs at work. I don't start work for another 20 minutes, which is why I decided to quickly get a post up. I had already gone for a walk for about an hour, and now I'm just listening to Brad Paisley's new CD, Wheelhouse, on my cell phone. I am a country girl at heart. Always have been. This is a freakin' awesome CD!

Anyways I think that is all for now. Tonight and this weekend, I'm going to attempt to get the second room at our suite organized and hopefully get my desk and computer set up so that I can start using my computer again. I miss using my computer. I like my LiveWriter program for creating my posts much better than doing it on the Blogger site itself. Sorry Blogger, but it is the truth. Tata for now! 

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!!

Let’s Make Some Money

So I am in need of some money. As you may know, if I have mentioned it before, I turn pens. So, if my internet allows to actually get onto the internet (as currently it is being a b*tch and I am writing this in Windows Live Writer so that I can post it later) I am going to be putting 4 of the pens that I have made up for sale on Etsy. It would be a few more pens, but at the moment I am unable to find 5 of them. One of the five missing pens I know I gave away to someone who does not deserve to have it (which is quite unfortunate). But as for the other four, they are MIA at the moment. Probably in a box still somewhere. Or possibly still at my parents house in one of the many boxes that we have yet to bring over here.

Anyways…. I thought that since I seem to have gone up in the number of readers that I have, I would also post the photos of the four pens that I have for sale currently on here along with a link to each pen on my Etsy account. This way, if any of you are interested in purchasing one you can. All of the pens that I am posting today are twist style pens. I do have a few click pens, but they aren’t currently ready to be sold.

All purchases include a plastic pen case to hold the pen, it also protects it during shipping. Shipping will be $8 to the USA or Canada. For international shipping, please contact me through my Etsy page. I only accept PayPal.

I will also later on be adding some of the blanks that I currently have set up to be turned but haven’t gotten around to them. This way a person can special order a pen in whichever design they would like. Customizations would cost approximately the same as none customized. They would just take a little bit longer to get sent out, as I would have to actually create the pen. So instead of 1-2 business days for it to be shipped out, it would probably be about 4-5 days to be shipped out. I would of course contact the purchaser once the item has been shipped.

So these are the pens that I have for sale currently (click on photo to go to Etsy site):

This is comfort pen made out of Bubinga wood. It has gold hardware. It is for sale for $25. SOLD
***If you would like a pen similar to this, please send me a comment on here or on my Etsy page and I will make one for you.

 

This is a standard twist pen. It is made out of branch of a Mulberry bush that my friend gave to me. It has silver hardware. There is a single bump accent with a gradual taper towards the middle on the top half of the pen. Even though the pen is finished with lacquer, it still has a natural wood feel to it. $20 SOLD
***If you would like a pen similar to this, please send me a comment on here or on my Etsy page and I will make one for you.

This is a standard twist pen. It is made out of purple with red streaks acrylic. The picture does not do it justice for the iridescent-ness of the pen. It features a quadruple bump top half and is finished with gun metal hardware. This is one of my personal favourites $25

This is a shortened Parker Style pen. It is made out of white oak. There is a decorative crack in the wood that meets in the center of the pen. This is a heavier pen than the previous pens. The hardware is black and gold. $30