Jason Raven

Memorial Day Weekend 2009

I took Friday off this week and took a rare extra-long weekend. There was no T-Ball this weekend, so the kids and I left for camp immediately after picking big sister up from school.

I brought my bow and blind, hoping to do some turkey hunting. As it turned out, there was very little sign of the big birds at any of the properties where I could hunt. I opted to sleep in on Saturday and Monday, pretty much ensuring that I would do absolutely no turkey hunting this year.

Girls on film

Although I didn't go to camp this past weekend, I had my dad swap the card out of the camera. I'm glad I changed the batteries the week before, becaue this was probably the best week I've ever had of deer videos. No bucks, but some fantastic doe videos.

Cache cache

Last weekend, the girls and I headed for camp right after T-Ball on Saturday morning. I woke up that morning with a headache and it was a full-blown migraine by the time we go to Brooks. Luckily, my sister was there with her family, so I left the kids to play with their cousins and took a 2 hour nap, which helped considerably. When I got up, the girls and I went geocaching before supper and found 3 of them within 5 minutes of camp.

I've been searching low and high

I took a week off from posting, but I'm trying to get back on schedule now. Last weekend, we went to my nephew's 5th birthday party, picked up a used playset for the kids and finally cashed in my pile of Cabela's gift certificates and got a DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 Handheld GPS. I had been wanting a GPS for years but kept putting it off. There always seemed to be some imminent new feature that kept me from pulling the trigger.