Kavalier Kody to the Rescue

So I had my first Cowboy Action Shoot in three years. My Grandpa, German Jack, lent me a set of his guns to use.

If your not sure what Cowboy Action Shooting is here's a brief run down. It's a shooting even using all old style guns. They must be single action i.e. you have to cock the gun after each shot. They are set up in stages with each stage having around 10 pistol shots, 10 rifle shots and anywhere from 4-8 shotgun shots. And in each stage you have to shoot the targets in specific order and it's timed. Add 5 seconds for each miss.

If you want more info check out wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_action_shooting

So anyways, I did alright. Having not shot in a long time I started off slow and just progressively got better while trying to minimize the misses. I started out shooting a the rounds in the 60 seconds. For comparison the really fast guys are in the low 30's. Good guys are in the low 40's. And average is in the high 40's to low 50's seconds.

But by the end I had gotten myself into the 40 second marks with usually only one miss. So overall a great weekend spent with my Grandpa and my Uncle.

So here is a video of my shoot. Unfortunately it was the only video i took and it was one of my worst rounds time wise because i had some shotgun issues. But after those issues i finished pretty strong with the rifle and the shotgun.


And here is my Grandpa, German Jack doing the round.

A Wiitackular Easter Weekend

Puns on the wii are soo much fun. So this post is a wii bit late (I crack myself up)

So two weekends ago was Easter. I headed down to Portland to my Auntie Sherrie's place. Joining us was my grandparents and also Dyrk and Kathy.

It was just a nice weekend with family, I haven't seen G&G for...I guess it would have been Mechanical Engineering grad...(was it really that long...hmmm)

We had a nice big Easter dinner on Sunday, my first home cooked meal since....last time I was in Portland. And we did the whole Easter egg painting on Saturday. Stephy and I got in a 'color on each other with crayons' fight.

I also brought my wii down, figuring I would simply show them the cool stuff you could do with it. Had no idea the hit it would be! We logged over 13hrs of wii playing time over the weekend. And not just us kiddies, literally everyone played it and equally playing time. Stephy was the tennis queen, Samantha was the boxer, Grandpa is one of the best wii bowlers i've ever seen, Joe had the great chip in in golf, Sherrie had a lot of granny bowling moments, even Grandma and Grandpa went head to head riding cows. It definitely was the hit of the weekend.

I added some Easter pictures to the photo gallery
Easter Pictures

Some random notes:

• I have definitely inherited the sauce gene from my Dad. I love sauces. Yesterday I was at Fred Meyer (grocery store) and they had some marinades, regularly $3 each...they had 10 for $10!!! And wouldn't you know it they had 10 different kinds!! So now i have 10 different kind of marinades :-D

• Another personal accomplishment note. I went to Costco and DIDN'T spend $100! Really! I bought lunch stuff like muffins and granola bars and yogurt. Still came out to $83 but I was proud of myself.

• This weekend if my first Cowboy Action Shoot. My new Cowboy name is Kavalier Kody! So I'll have some pics to share of how that went. And more information on what Cowboy Action shooting is.
  

Cheers,

Logan

Wii-kend at Wazzu with the Parents

So this last weekend I headed east to Pullman Washington, the home of Washington State University, (WSU or Wazzu). It was a pretty nice campus, but I just love campuses. They just have that great atmosphere about them.

The reason is my parents were down for a Veterinary continuing education course over the weekend. So it was a good chance to go and see my parents as well as pick up some good ol Canadian supplies.

The drive was really nice. I took the longer route which took me through White Pass which is squished between Mount Rainier (the one in my picture) and Mount St Helens. It's really beautiful area down here. I decided to take a video of the area while driving through (safe right) but I didn't think of it until I was already out of the big mountains and lakes. But here is my driving video. It ended up being about 6hr drive, but it went fast because I downloaded the audio book Eragon to pass the time.

(Never mind, youtube is doing site maintenance, i'll upload later)

Once there I basically hung out while my parents were in meetings all night. Saturday night I got my parents to try out the Wii!! We got into it playing bowling then I let my parents duke it out in baseball. They ended up tying the game. Wii're all winners



After that we packed up my car full of stuff. They brought down my wakeboard, a bunch of scuba gear, some textbooks, some African artifacts my mom picked up while there, some cowboy gear for cowboy action shooting and a hard drive with all my files and pictures from the home computer.

So thats it, then another 5hr drive home. It was definitely nice to see my parents again. We got to spend some time and i got to see where my mom did her Vet degree so that was cool.

Thats it. Hopefully more posts coming up about work and life. Until then. Skule!