Bill's Mascot

Bill's has a new mascot in his coyote hunting quest... A Bald Eagle has been visiting him. The weather was too bad this weekend to get any more coyotes although we did see one Sat. night running across the field...

Here are some shots of the Eagle in the field behind our house.

Our little buddy City Folk is into the coyote hunting too - he was over one day when Bill & Joel got a coyote (city folk is our nickname for Jadyn - Joel & Jen's son) He loves Bill and calls Bill & I Mr. & Mrs. City Folk.... (Long Story - Bill was telling Jaden about City folk and he said what do they look like... THEY LOOK LIKE YOU... you can see where this story is going )

Winter Wonderland

Well Winter is hanging on for keeps this year - I spent the entire weekend stuck at home because the snow was so deep and the drifts were so high I couldn't get out of the driveway....

Here's a few photos of the drifts in our driveway....

Here are a few giant snowmen that Bill & I made for my mom a few months ago.

Lare & Mare Snowmen.... they were HUGE. - LOVE THE HAIR!

Barn Burning in the Hub

Today we lost a national monument in the land of 052. We burnt down the old pig barn on LaKnoll. Many of the local firefighters came to practice firefighting and burn down the barn for my dad so he can put in a new pivot (although we know he won't do it - he loves those travelers especially the orange one on the pig barn lane)
It turns out that burning down a barn is quite a spectator sport

Becaue the firefighters were practicing - they brought a truck to burn also (here they are putting out the fire with the firefighting foam).
They also put a chair and some other things in one section and lit that on fire then extinguished it ...
















After the practice, they lit the whole barn on fire and it only took a few minutes for it to come falling down....

































































Now that the barn is gone only a few questions remain unanswered....

- What will grandpa say?
- Where will Cole and Lexi shoot birds with their bb guns?
- Where will the deer, possums, woodchucks, and stray cats hang out?
- Where will the hunters park?
- and finally..... will anyone remember dad's brother who was eaten by the pigs - if there is no pig barn?

Quest to Save the Sheep

Hey All... hope February is going well for you.... Bill has a new quest I wanted to tell you about. He is on a mission to save the sheep that live in the field next to our house. Save the sheep you say.... interesting quest.... well - let me just say this is not exactly a PETA project.

Instead - it is more like a personal quest to shoot every Coyote within a 5 square mile radius.....

Becuase we have the sheep - we also have a ton of coyotes living behind our house - so Bill has decided to declair war and save the sheep .... lets ignore the fact that the real reason is there is nothing else to hunt right now except squirrels and pretend for a minute he really cares about the sheep.

So anyway - he has set up some yummy treats for the coyotes and has declaired war on them - I think he has shot like 5 or more just in the last week or so.... Here are a few he decided were looking particularly hard at the new lambs in the field... so they had to be taken care of..... (pictures below)

The funny part of the story is one day he had out an aresenal of different weapons because he was trying to figure out which scope/gun combination was the best for this war - and there was a knock on the door - it was an agent from an agency who has 3 initials one of which starts with a F - they were looking for me to interview me about a friend who is trying to get security clearance... so anyway - the agent didn't mention anything about the aresenal, but if you don't hear from me for awhile, there may be trouble.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES - DO NOT LOOK IF YOU LOVE COYOTES!