Gearing Up...

Getting ready for my nieces wedding the 8th of October. Got to take pictures, which I'm a little nervous about, since it's indoors. Maybe they will turn out ok..Traded my gun I won a few weeks ago for a Mossberg 500 shotgun. It's a gun I've been wanting, and I finally got a chance to get one! It kicks a little, but I plan on doing some mods on it, where it's a little easier to shoot.

Good Weekend

Had a great weekend, hard to believe that its the mid-week already! Went metal detecting Saturday and found my best coin to date, a 1934 "wheat" penny. Not a valuable find, but I consider it a great one. Went yesterday evening to a old school and found several pennies, and only one dime. I'm guessing this area had been searched before and someone had already gotten the silver coins. None of the coins I found were old, but it's still a lot of fun digging up the unknown! The photo is some of the coins I dug yesterday.

Sportsman Jamboree

Sold custom pens again last night at the Sportsman Jamboree in Ruston. Only sold one pen, but was sure surprised to win a gun! They had several door prizes, and the grand prize was a H&R .444 cal. single shot. I did not think I would win anything, but got real excited when they called out my ticket number! I had won! Hopefully, I'll kill at least one deer with it! Thankful for Jason Bullock who donated the gun also!

New Hobby!

In addition to fishing, I have a new hobby...treasure hunting! I bought a Bounty Hunter metal detector yesterday, and tried it out today to get the feel of how it works. I found a few things, and a few coins. Of course nothing of great value, but it was fun getting out and looking. Here's today's "treasure".

September 11th

9-11-01. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since the attacks on our great country. I remember being in Tuesday Morning on that terrible Tuesday morning. I was with my mother and brother doing some shopping. My brother was in the checkout line when the people in line started getting calls about a plane hitting the Twin Towers. My brother then told me and my mom to go to his vehicle and turn on the radio to see what was going on. As we listened to the tragedy unfold, it became obvious this was clearly a terrorist attack. We left Tuesday Morning and went across the road to a convenient store, where I called my wife from a pay phone, since we didn't have a cell phone yet. She said another plane had hit the Pentagon. She said planes were just hitting everywhere randomly. I made sure she was ok, our children were 8 and 6 at the time. After hanging up, I remember scanning the sky wondering, would one hit here? I was scared. What was going on and when would it end? We headed home, and after a little while I drove out to where my Dad was mowing a yard. He had not heard of the attacks, so I told him the news. We went inside of the elderly lady's house and watched the unthinkable happen. Ten year later it's still as real to me as the day it happened. I pray for all who lost loved ones that day, also for Mr. Bush who was our President then. I thought he did a great job leading our country in the time of uncertainty, fear, and confusion. May we never forget 9-11-01.

Weekend!!

Here at work on the last night of graveyard shift, looking forward to a great weekend. Tomorrow we head to ElDorado, Arkansas for the South Arkansas Outdoor Expo to sell hand-made pens. I entered my second photo contest there, and to my amazement, I won 1st place on the Wildlife category! The photo I entered was one I took at Black Bayou in Monroe, of a dragonfly. I got a good close-up shot of it before it fluttered away. There were about 35 photos in the Wildlife category, so I was really shocked to see my photo with the blue ribbon hanging on it! Looking forward to selling a few pens tomorrow, hope I can stay awake!

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