Three Years of Blogging

It's difficult for me to believe I have been at this for three years now. Granted, the past few months I seem to only manage one or two blogs a month, but I am starting to acquire quite an archive. Sometimes, when I don't have much to do (ha - like Emryk gives me free time!) I like to go back through some of my old blogs and remember some of the things we have done over the past few years. I think, several years down the road, I will be very pleased to have a small history of our time in Montana and remember all the fun things we tried to do while we were there. Last winter, while I was still in Montana, I tried to print some of my entries off with an old printer I found in a dumpster. Laura bought some cheap colored ink for it, and I printed off quite a few of my entries in color. I think I only managed to get about a years worth printed before something happened to the printer though. Since then I just haven't had the time to try to get it running again and continue printing off the many pages I have. Perhaps that will be a project for a snow day when I cannot get to Holdrege for work.

Another thing I would like to do is make a new banner image for the blog. The mountain at the top of my blog are nice - it was a picture I took while I was hunting, but I would like to update it to something more relevant and give a Nebraska feel. Perhaps I will have to keep looking for the right picture, I'm sure I will find one.

Perhaps one of these pictures of Emryk would we a good one to add.
Although the pictures are adorable, if I do say so myself, I don't think they will quite fit the bill for a new image. Maybe a picture from a Nebraska hunting trip would do the trick. Here's some from a few weeks ago:
And here's a few from our weekend hunt with Randy. As far as filling our bag limit, we had the best day of hunting ever. We had 18 ducks by noon and even had a chance at a few geese. Wouldn't you know it, we were out picking up ducks when the geese showed up! We still got a shot off, but we couldn't drop the geese. However, we did have a good mixed bag, including a beautiful bufflehead that I hope to have mounted and a few canvasback ducks - both a first for me.
Rylan and I have been trying to get out at least once every weekend for a hunt together. This has been, by far, our best year of duck hunting.

This weekend I hope to get in some hunting and maybe even talk Laura into going along one morning. We both have been talking about doing some geocaching as well, so hopefully we can find some time to get out and enjoy the outdoors together. This morning I saw gas was $1.80 in Kearney, so we have some incentive to go out and burn some 'cheap' gas!

We will be in Cheyenne for Thanksgiving. We are looking forward to taking Emryk on a trip with some distance, although we hope he enjoys riding in the car for several hours without getting out. The good thing about geocaching is we can stop occasionally and get out to let him move around for awhile. Before I get ahead of myself, I forgot to mention the alternator in the car is going bad, so we need to have that replaced before we get out on the highway. So, right now we would be stuck driving the pick-up, which is a nice ride, but I think we ALL would rather ride in the car and have some room as we travel.

Until again

-=Nolan=-