GTC Photo Featured on HunterEdCourse.com

Last week I was asked if one of our photos could be used by HunterEdCourse.com and this past weekend it was featured on their website blog and sent out to their newsletter subscribers:

You can check out the blog post here: Squirrel Hunting Tips for First Hunt After Hunter Education

While you’re on their website, check out their web course that will help you prepare for and earn your hunter’s education test completion certificate.

 

This photo was taken on a squirrel hunt while visiting friends in Southern Missouri:

Original Post >

 

Many thanks to the guys at HunterEdCourse.com for using our photo!

Six Skunks Shot

July 16, 2014 – My brothers have been asked by neighbors to get rid of some of the skunk population, because they’ve been pestering their animals.  Tonight they did just that!

By the way…don't think that you can get ever get THAT close to SO MANY skunks without having some major olfactory complications...and possibly never let indoors again.

Benjamin’s Turkey

During this spring’s turkey season, Benjamin went hunting with a friend and got this tom:

 

Lydia is curious

Showing us antlers she find

4/16/13

Ben Shoots a Deer

Benjamin shot a little button-buck this today – which happens to be the last day of the rifle season!

He’s been hunting throughout the season and took some shots at a few deer, but never downed one.  Today he wasn’t planning on hunting, but decided to do a little hunting in the woods nearby before the sun set.

He carried the deer across the field on his back after field dressing him and then we put him in the trailer for a quick drive back home.  The deer will be placed in a freezer until Ben can process it later this week.

No Turkey this Season

   Benjamin is probably the least photo genic of us boys, but we’ve found that he’s always got a broad smile on his face when he’s posing with a trophy.

   Benjamin got up at 4am this morning (and a lot of other mornings) to go turkey hunting on 500 acres a friend owns near the Mississippi river.  He’s heard gobblers and even saw some turkeys, but they wouldn’t come into shooting range of the shotgun.

Coyotes, Couches and an Opossum

For Thanksgiving we visited the Brewer family who hospitably invited us to celebrate Thanksgiving with them. We had a fantastic time! In fact I was having such a great time I didn’t take very many photos for more photos from Thanksgiving go to the Brewer Farm Blog.

We saw some coyotes during breakfast and Benjamin took a shot at three of them.

He hit one of them because he saw it jump when he fired, but when we looked for the coyote we couldn’t find him.

It was a three and a half hour drive to our house the Brewer’s place.  It’s been 3 months since I have driven but I drove 80 miles of the way. The highway was so straight and flat it was very easy.  When we got home we saw that the supplies for the floor had already been delivered. Everything is ready for the installers arrival on Monday: tile, mortar, grout and sealant.

We have our work cut out for us this weekend. We have to get the living room, kitchen, hallway bathroom, laundry room/pantry and hallway completely empty. We also have to replace the sub floor in the bathroom.

Hallway Bathroom

 

The stove has been moved to the garage!

 

Moving the washer

 

We borrowed an appliance dolly which made it pretty easy to move the appliances

 

Noah filling in some holes in the wall with drywall mud

He wasn’t patching this hole!

Behind two of the showers

 

Moving the refrigerator was quite a task that required all 5 of us.

 

 

It wouldn’t fit through the front door without taking it off. It was a pretty tight fit and we had to be careful so that we didn’t scrape paint off of the refrigerator.

So after moving the stove, washer, dryer and the refrigerator all that we had left was the sleeper sofa.  Moving the couch was a breeze. Tomorrow we’ll have to move everything else that didn’t get moved last night which is mainly comprised of a lot of little things that we haven’t used in a long time and don’t know what to do with !  Some friends will be coming over to help us move the piano and the bookcases to our bedrooms.

Tonight Noah found an opossum in the barn and Benjamin shot it:

We’ve got a full day ahead of us tomorrow!