Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Memorial Weekend in Pictures!

The first part of our weekend was spent in Killbuck, a small town in southern Ohio, at Kevin's brother's log cabin in the woods.
The driveway, or should I say the rocky trail to the cabin is treacherous. If it's rainy you don't get out at all. You can get in, it's all downhill, but you can't get out.



It was built in the mid 1800's, does have electricity does not have running water.


It overlooks a large valley with a creek running down the middle but the trees are so thick that the view is only trees.




The kids had fun on the four wheeler.







The apple does not fall...







The oldest brought his airsoft guns and destroyed many pop cans.








It's a good thing no bunnies ran by.





Then they brought the big guns out.









Must go check out the target.





Yep, we hit it!


If you notice, this used to be a whole tree but much target practice has caused it to come apart at the seams.






Uh oh, he brought along electronics to pass the time.


A tour of the cabin...




the kitchen,









the living room...





and the bathroom. Yikes!







The distance to the cabin from the bathroom...pretty scary in the dark



This is Paul, the owner of the cabin and he needed a rock moved.
First he managed to break into manageable pieces.

KERRRRRRR

SMASH!!!!!!!



Then they loaded it up on the front of the four wheeler.








It's easier to hold a giant rock and drive a four wheeler at the same time if you stick out your tongue.





They moved them over to the artesian well so that you don't have to walk on the wet ground to get to the spring.






The spring.






They put a tube in the end of the pipe and fed it downhill into a barrel to collect water.






Behind Mike (Kevin's dad), you can see the trailer that he fitted with a large piece of black plastic. He filled it with water in order to heat it up for his morning bath. A really hillbilly hottub.


The other half of our Memorial Day Weekend.






Started with a picnic at my sister's house and Rascal had fun!





So did Tom, don't ever leave him alone with your camera!





He wasn't drinking either.




Tom and Amy.



This is Norm and he is the MASTER BUILDER! He built his own house, the really cool shed in the background and a beautiful little fish pond which I of course neglected to get a picture of. My mom and dad in the background.



Then we moved to the lake at my mom's house for some swimming fun and beverage fun at the Tiki Bar (Which Norm and Tom built, I helped too.) My beverage is ice tea but some of the others like the brew.



The guys are out at the raft playing Water Wedge. It's a game where somebody hits golf balls at a big tub on the raft, trying to hit the tub and get a hole in one. It's only happened twice, once last year and then on Memorial Day (actually it was Sunday) Tom got one! The guys and girls on the raft dive for the ones that miss, you could try to catch one if you wanted but it would hurt!





Lee was hitting the balls for them and he did a great job!.




The oldest and his girlfriend had fun too!




Little Charlie slowly moved in to get onto the picture.



The Lake crowd.




If you were looking for Kevin he was mostly fishing.





Til the sun went down and mosquitos came out and we went home.
Til next time,
Beth

Monday, May 26, 2008

Flipper is Growing!

I can't believe how fast a gosling grows. When compared to our turkeys, the turkeys look like they haven't grown at all!

Check out the before and after photos.




April 30th


May 22nd



We took him with us to my mom's house for the Memorial Day picnic and at first no one was very happy. You see, it was supposed to be a work day and they always think I do really crazy stuff so you can imagine. They were very surprised at how good he was.


They expected him to run all over and that we would have to try and catch him but that is the opposite of a goslings behavior. He never moved farther than 10 feet away at any time. If any one in the group walked away he would follow them crying because either he didn't want them to leave or he thought he should follow them. My cousin's 3 year old really loved him, it's great because he will go up to anyone and let them pet him.






During our picnic he just sat quietly on Kevin's lap while we ate, sleeping for a while and then waking up but really calm and quiet.


I got in touch with the "Goose Mother". She is the nicest lady and gave me all kinds of good advice for an indoor goose. She makes and sells diapers and harnesses for geese. There is a link to her website under the picture below. She takes her geese to Renaissance Fairs where she dresses up as Mother Goose. She also takes them to nursing homes to visit. She has one beautiful Sebastopol Goose named Maggie that actually hugs people with her neck (she wraps it around their neck and hugs tight), when she meets them.


http://www.thegoosesmother.com/index.html

This is a picture from her site, I hope she doesn't mind me posting it. How cute is this little baby with his diaper harness!



Kevin caught a really nice largemouth and a couple crappies but the pictures are really small. My sister sent them to me from her camera but I do not know how to make them bigger or even if I can. I hope you can see them. My Mom and Dad live on a really nice private lake. I was really lucky to have grown up there. We swam, fished with our cane poles and played in the woods all day. I never caught a fish like this though!

Flipper really enjoyed my Moms lake and went in swimming with the kids. All in all we had a great time and everyone loved Flipper and I ended up not have to wash windows!

Happy Memorial Day everyone!

Beth