Shooting Skeet & Breathing Fire

October 26, 2014 – This afternoon we were invited for a get together at a friend’s house.

We headed to the backyard to shoot some skeet

You can see the clay target shattering if you zoom in:

With so many shooters, there were 2 or 3 guys going at once.  If the first guy missed, then the second one would shoot, then the third – or that’s how it worked in theory.

After shooting, some of the ladies took a ride on horseback.

Later that night, we ate dinner and cooked s’mores over the campfire and several guys showed us how to breathe fire:

We also watched the Cardinals’ 12-6 victory over the Red Sox in Game 3 of the World Series.  Even later that night, we enjoyed some dancing in the driveway.

Martins

August 23, 2013 - The Martin family invited us over to their home this afternoon…

After moving some new hay we got out the shotguns and shot some clay targets!

Bryce loads up

“Pull”

There it is…

…or was.

[No caption needed]

Hit!

Danielle

Andrew firing side-by-side

(“Side-by-side” doesn’t mean I was firing next to Danielle for those of you who aren’t “up” on their gun vocabulary.  :-) )

Miss!

Guys enjoying the shade

Ladies enjoying the shade

Mr. Martin

Noah hands Kate shotgun

Gun won’t fire

Noah and Ben check it out

“Looks good to me”

Noah telling Kate what to do

Kate looks a bit incredulous

“Who? Me?”

Loading powder into a muzzle loader

Ramming the ball, wad, and powder down the muzzle

After a delicious supper and during a beautiful sunset the Martins saddled up their horses.

Looks like Kate forgot somebody

The pony feels forgotten too

Noah & Bryce stayed behind and fixed the electric fence

After the ride, Lydia got up close to the horse, but freaked out when the horse coughed!

I also got some great photos of Bryce’s pony that I hope to edit at a later date, but here’s one:

Looks maybe... a bit too…angelic?  Might need to tone down the Orton effect.