Sunday morning of the visit up north brought a very delightful session of coloring. Emma, John and I really got into the spirit of Halloween, creating many zany pictures of ghost, jack-lanterns, skeletons and bats. Mark began to draw a picture of a bat, but stormed off in protest after we made a few teasing remarks about lefties (teeheehee...sorry mom, Bob, Mark and Jon). I completed his bat by adding pink hearts on it.
Emma is quite the artist and enjoys making pictures. It was really fun watching her create and think about shape and perspective.
Emma, Lily and I also joined Mark, Jon, and Mingo on a second grouse-hunting excursion in the "clear cut". Believe it or not, I had a blast! Although the weather wasn't as beautiful as the day before, it was still a warm, pleasant day. Also, Emma and I got to walk with each other (and Lily, who walked between us because she was too scared). This type of hunting allows talking and movement...much better than keeping totally still and silent.
We immediately had action as Mingo began pointing (while going to the bathroom too, I might add) at a porcupine! Mark shot at the porcupine and hit it (the guys found quills), but missed actually killing it. Cute as they might be, porcupines like to snack on hemlock trees and, of course, will do substantial injury to dogs. I was very pleased that Mingo came when we called him, even though he was interested in the porky!
Mingo flushed out about five or six birds, but the guys never really got a very good shot due to the denseness of the brush and the angle of where we were walking. It was pretty exciting though, and Emma and I enjoyed chattering and petting poor lil' Lillers who was not real thrilled with the whole walk.
Mark gave us a quick lesson on reading bullets and Emma and I tackled walking up a large mountain of dirt and gravel.
Of course, it wouldn't be a family get together if I didn't torture everybody by "requesting" a group photo.
A silly photo is always the carrot at the end of the stick!
2 comments:
Well apparently I'm the only person who thought the porcupine they shot at was actually killed. Now a third person has confirmed a major inaccuracy in my blog "reporting".
I guess if I'm going to "report" animal slayings in my blog I'm going to have to actually view the dead body, to confirm.
But... ew.
Lisa
Laurie - you have such a great family.
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