Birds of Prey..

Great Horned Owl and Burrowing Owl.......

More pics from the show....

Archery....

The children got to have a go at archery at the Sportsmen show...Chris especially enjoyed it!!! The guy that was teaching the children was so great with all the ages and abilities of children - realy helpful and encouraging!

Actually I was really impressed with everyone at the show today - VERY friendly and and helpful and welcoming!!! Best show I have been to there in a long time :) We had a great time there :)

I caught a trout!

Today we went to the boat and sportsmans show at the Agricom - what a great show!!!! (Monica you should have said hi! I was pretending to sulk on the way back to the car because I was feeling pretty crappy by then from coughing constantly and my throat was hurting from it and everyone was teasing me lol. I'm a bit of a drama Queen at times lol (who'd have guessed huh??? lol) anyway you might have kicked me out of it had you said hi ;)

Anyway back on topic - they had a fishing tank for children at the show - for $2 children could have a go at catching a trout - at least I think they were trout.....I have never been fishing before - unless you count minnows with jam jars as a child. So I had a go with Abigail and I did it!!!! I caught a trout!!!!! Woohoo!! I had the bait on the hook and after a while Abby got bored and walked off and left me with the rod and to be honest I was bored stiff .....so Abby wandered back and I told her I was so bored that I could throw something - in fact I told her that I was losing patience and was going to throw something and the only thing around was her so I was going to throw her in the pond! She looked at me like I was mad - and then I felt something tugging! I caught a fish!!!!! I caught a fish!!!!!

Yay!!!! I lifted it out of the water and theres this bloody ENORMOUS fish _ I tell yah it was THIS BIG!!!!!!!!!

So the guy comes over and yells to the crowd 'see it CAN be done' and everyones looking and Abby is thrilled and tells everyone SHE caught the fish BLOODY CHEEK because I CAUGHT the bloody thing ME!!!!!! I caught a fish - it should be MY name on that certificate!!!!!

So Lloyd told me he would take me fishing this year - I hope he doesn't think THAT was it!!!!!

Maybe fishing is MY thing......maybe thats my SKILL....it was HUGE.......

I caught a FISH!!!!!!

:)

Personalised...

One of Lloyds favourite gifts was this Chamois leather that my Mom sent over that she had had my Sister personalize with the name of his tractor and the John Deere logo lol! ...so now Lloyds tractor, Bertha, has her very own polishing cloth!!!! Of course he thinks it's far too nice to actually use ;)

cake magic!

From this:



To this:





I bought a typical white cake from Safeway and scraped off the flower and redecorated the top with a John Deere theme in just five minutes :) Just some simple green coconut and a little scattering of toffee chips for a gravel driveway. One of Sams tractors and a little hay bale and its done :)