I spent the past two days up in the mountains for my first archery season.  Due to my disability, I now have a lifetime permit to hunt during the archery season with a cross-bow, which is usually reserved for the rifle season. 
I haven't had a lot of time this summer to practice, so did'nt plan on taking any chancy shots, and since neither animal_coor I have ( Read more... )

We took a drive to the mountains this beautiful Sunday to enjoy the weather, do a little target shooting, and get lunch out.

While on one of the county roads, we were carefully maneuvering the washouts and slick spots, when we slid into what ended up being a 2 foot deep mud hole. Now my truck is pretty rugged, but not equipped for this kind of ( Read more... )

Cinroll, Peanut, and my part-timer Harlequin and I got home late Thursday night from visiting Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. Since this was an education related trip, we visited 3 schools and a college, as well as many museums, temples and shrines, an amusement park, and more. I stayed with two different host families during the trip, and ( Read more... )

Had a very nice Mother's Day weekend. animal_co and the kids took me to Texas Roadhouse yesterday, then the girls (including my pseudo-adopted one) went out and brought me two beautiful flower bouquets and ice cream cake.
This morning we went to see Thor, which has a very interesting view on Asgard, by the way. When we got home, cinroll 'gave' me another ( Read more... )

Cinroll has been posting her web-comic 'The Third Rail' weekly starting in September. Now that we've met the main people, the fighting starts today! (btw - I have NO idea where this goes, she wouldn't show anyone while she was working on it last summer - heh.)

Check it out!

Just in case you haven't heard about this, be aware of possible increased spam if you are on mailing lists (a lot of companies use Epsilon). I have personally seen an increase in the amount of 'contact list' spam which started at the same time.

Epsilon data breach affects travel companies - Travel Weekly

It's refreshing to know that the IRS is really on the side of the tax payer. And wants input from people like us ( Read more... )

Here's to another year down the road ( Read more... )

In an effort to improve TSA screening for medical conditions the TSA has decided to implement a new card that can be filled out and handed to a screener to "discreetly inform and alert a security officer about a health issue, disability or medical device that may affect screening ( Read more... )

Didn't quite make it this year ( Read more... )