Turkey Hunting (and Fishing) at the Farm

On May 3-6 Benjamin and I (Andrew) got the opportunity to go turkey hunting at Kate's Grandparent's 90-acre farm. Our good friend, David Inyart, also got to join us. Kate's Dad (we call him "Grandpa Dave") is currently staying at the farm while it is being prepared to go on the market.
David came home with us from church Sunday night and he drove us down to "The Farm" later that night. After getting settled in and introducing David to Dave we went to bed.
We all didn't sleep too well, but we were all pretty excited when we got up at 5am, grabbed some granola bars and then marched out into the dew-soaked fields under the light of the moon.
On Monday we set the blind on the edge of the field and called the turkeys in. However, we only saw one turkey and it didn't have a visible beard. It passed right in front of us, so we had to suffer the agony of watching our prey walk out of sight.
Unfortunately, this was the only turkey that we ever saw although during the next two days we heard gobbles from a nearby turkey time and time again. However, even though we didn't bag a bird we still had a lot of fun during the rest of the day.
We had to legally stop hunting at noon, so after eating lunch we would work with Grandpa Dave on the farm. I had a good time learning to drive the tractor and operate the front loader and I also got to drive Grandpa Dave's truck through some of the fields.
Some of the birds were making nests inside some of the out barns, so we decided to take up bird-shooting. Our shoot/hit ratio was pretty miserable, but after a few hours we steadily improved. I filmed a lot of footage while they were shooting and I hope to make a video about it sometime in the future.
After the birds started to become wise and flew off we waited for them to come back by fishing in the pond. Benjamin caught some nice-sized bass that easily could've made a meal if we had kept them.
So as you've probably realized by now...even though we didn't get to bring a turkey home we still had a great time spending time with both "Davids" and enjoyed spending time in the "Great Outdoors" at the Farm.


Photo Captions:
From Monday to Wednesday we woke up at 5am to walk to our turkey blind before the sun came up.
The three of us all had to put on "makeup" while we were inside of the blind. The turkeys could've spotted us because of the contrast of our light faces against the darkness of the blind.
We had to legally stop turkey hunting at noon, but we never ran out of things to do at the farm.
We used the tractor to wiggle out an old fence post.
In the afternoon and evening we spent our time working and playing around at the farm, but we also had a great time FISHING! At the farm's pond we fished for bass, bluegill and sunfish. Benjamin caught a lot of nice-sized bass.
Noah and Mom came down later in the evenings to bring dinner. Noah had a good time playing around with the bluegill and sunfish.

May 6th-Dad's Birthday

Ben, Noah, Dad, Andrew, Grandpa

Baseball Game-Marlins vs Cardinals

Squirrel Hunting

Benjamin and Noah have been hunting for squirrels in the farm fields that surround our house.

We gave the squirrel meat to a nearby friend and he cooked it up. Our Mom won't let us cook rodents in her kitchen. :)

You may notice that this squirrel looks different than the other squirrels. This is because this is a fox squirrel and not a gray squirrel.

This is the first squirrel that Noah's kileld and he was pretty happy about it!

Creation Museum & Potter's Ranch

Creation Museum & Potter's Ranch from J. Andrew Wong on Vimeo.

Exactly one year ago (April 7-9 2009) my family and I were at the Creation Museum to celebrate my 15th birthday. My Mom had signed me up for a special photography class with two of the photographers for AiG. I learned a whole lot in the class and had a great time taking photos of exhibits and the garden.

We had planned on "camping" at Potter's Ranch, a local Christian campground. However, it reached 18 degrees that night, so the camp management let us sleep in a heated room.

I would highly recommend the photography workshop that I attended; the workshops are takign place 4 times a year and the next class will be on May 8. You can find more information here: blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/creation-museum/2009/11/16/photography-workshops-for-2010/

Even if you aren't an expert in photography you'll still have a great time taking photos around the Museum-one of your photos may even be used by AiG!
-J. Andrew Wong

Noah's Pitching Machine-Video

Homeschooling is entirely too much fun. Noah (11) invented a pitching machine using leaf blowers and pvc pipes. Our neighbor's grandson, Aaron helped us test it. Benjamin (14) helped operate it and Andrew (15) made a movie of it. And their mother? Well, she just delighted in it! Thought you might enjoy it too.

Videos UNAVAILABLE

The videos on this blog will be unavailable for awhile. A few weeks ago Homeschool View Tube closed down and the video files were on it's server. Before the website closed down our videos all together had over 30,000 views!
I'll try to re-embed all of the videos, but there are well over 50 and it may take me a few weeks. If you'd like to see a particular video just comment on this post and I will let you know when it'll be available.

Visiting the Inyart Family

Today we visited our friends, the Inyart family-it was David’s 21st Birthday and we sure had a whole lot of fun with him. Watch a video from our trip.

It was fun to be on a farm for a day…we even got to try milking a cow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We brought a few guns with us and got to do some target practice.

We also made the movie, “A Shady Fortune.”