A Little Bit of Rock!

My blog today is coming to you from Snoqualmie pass in Washington, just on the outskirts of Seattle. I’m currently sitting in the third row seat of our Yukon, while my dad is driving us over this 70 mile pass. Right now we are driving in a whiteout with lots of snow and rain. We are having a nice family trip (lol) over to Tacoma, Washington to the AC/DC concert. My mom is pretty much the biggest rock and roll fan you will ever meet; you might have gotten a hint from my earlier blogs about my mom playing Guitar Hero. I’ve been to many rock concerts in my day. My first concert ever was Aerosmith at the Gorge, my second concert was Matchbox Twenty, third was Van Halen, fourth was a bunch of little concerts at Rock’n the Rivers with bands like Styx, Boston, Eddie Money and many more. My fifth concert was one of the best of my career: The Rolling Stones in Missoula. And now next in line is this AC/DC concert. Now if you aren’t familiar with any AC/DC songs here are a handful: Back in Black, Hells Bells, TNT, Dirty Deeds, The Jack, Black Ice, and Highway to Hell. The concert is tomorrow meaning Sunday night at eight, so we have all day tomorrow to explore the third largest city in Washington. Hopefully there are a couple of cool things to do; I assume there would be. Well I’ll take some pictures during the concert and check back in later next week. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone. I know it’s been a while since I have last blogged, and I’m so sorry. I have just been so busy with the last week of school and driving to get home for Thanksgiving. In my last blog, I had told you that I would be pretty much living in the library for the last week of school before we got out, and that statement was very much true. I ended up finding two other students from my classes to study with, which helps out so much, because then we get a lot accomplished and study for longer periods of time. I got home last Friday night, and my father’s birthday was Thursday, so my family waited for me to get home so we could go out to dinner and open presents together. We ended up going to the Macaroni Girl which is always really good. I always get the chicken parmesan. Since this was my dad’s 50th birthday we got him something pretty big for it. We got him a new fish finder for our 20ft Lund. This baby does it all: it has a built in GPS and has maps of all the water in the United States, and it even shows the different types of structures on the lake floor. Well this week my parents and I have been looking for a new vehicle for me to drive. So far our luck has been pretty bad, but we are keeping our fingers crossed. For Thanksgiving, we will be traveling to Whitehall to my aunt and uncle’s house to eat dinner. All the girls come back and go shopping on BLACK FRIDAY, and the guys stay and hunt for the monster bucks. Well, I hope everyone has a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Cow Elk!

Well, hello to all my blog readers. Just a warning, this blog is going to talk a lot about hunting, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. So last Friday, I went up to our hunting cabin, and let’s just say I had a blast. I ended up shooting my cow elk early Saturday morning at just around day break. My dad, my sister’s boyfriend and I were walking across the creek and just about into the trees so we could make our way down the valley to our spot. As we were just about into the trees, two animals that I thought were does, came trotting off the other side valley towards us, but to our surprise, they were two cow elk. So we shot them right on the spot and dragged them back to the cabin and had them hung by 8:30 that morning. After we got the elk hung up, we heard a lot of other shooting going on, so we decided to back out hunting, but since I already shot my elk I just scouted for the others. The next day was just about the same thing: a lot of hunting which meant a lot of scouting for me, but I don’t mind because it’s fun to see more elk and help our friends out. We skinned my elk up at the cabin to keep from getting a mess in our friend Bill’s garage; we have to hang it there because we don’t really have a garage since we sold our house. Sunday night I watched the Cowboys play a very hard fought game, which ended in our favor thank God. Tony Romo is finally back, which is about a thousand times better than having Brad Johnson at QB. This week I’ll be doing a lot of studying since I have two tests on Friday, Pre-Calc and Accounting. Have a good week, and I’ll check back in before I head home!

OVER!

Hey to all you readers. Life has officially slowed down because football is now over. We went up to Havre on Thursday night after practice and got beat badly. The score I think was 35 to 3, not in our favor by far. On Friday we sat around the hotel just hanging out waiting for the day to go by, which kind of sucked but I think it’s a lot better than riding up Friday night on the bus because at least we could walk around instead of being stuck on a bus for five hours. After the game, I stayed in Havre with my parents at their hotel room. I sat in the hot tub for a while, and then Sully, his parents, Ashton, Shannon, his parents, and my parents ate pizza in the pool area and talked. Saturday we came back, and I went down to Whitehall to my uncle’s so I could try to find a nice buck. I didn’t see any bucks, only around eight does. On Sunday, my dad and I went hunting up at our spot and didn’t see a thing, but there was a lot of fresh elk poop around so that’s always a good sign. Well last night after hunting, I went to Sportsman’s Warehouse and bought a ground blind for hunting. I also bought a doe call called a bleat and a buck call called a grunt which I will use in my new blind. Tonight I’m going over to Whitehall so I can hunt tomorrow morning and night which I hope goes a little better than last time. On Friday I will be heading up to our hunting cabin that we have rented every hunting season since I can remember. It’s an old cabin that doesn’t have electricity so everything runs on car batteries but there is a landline phone there. It’s kind of weird. Well, I’ll talk more about the cabin next time! Have a great week.

A Little Spice!!

Hello to all my blog readers. First things first, I’m giving a shout out to Justine because I forgot to give her one. So I’m sure you have all heard that we lost to Carroll College on Saturday at Alumni Coliseum. The score was 10 to 6. We started out the game hard and fast and didn’t stop until the last buzzer, but we didn’t come out on top. The score at halftime was 3-0 in our favor, and we ended up kicking another field goal. Carroll kicked a field goal and scored on a quarterback scramble. Is it just me or does Carroll just get lucky every time the game is on the line? We beat them in the stat books again, but somehow they find a way to beat us. But I have another three years, and at the minimum, I will play them six more times which gives me great pleasure. So something very exciting happened to me today at football film. I was announced the offensive player of our game, which an offensive lineman doesn’t usually ever get, so it made it that much more special. So this week is going to have some spice in it. Our game is on Friday night instead of Saturday afternoon because Northern and the high school share a stadium, and the high school has a playoff game Saturday, so our game got bumped. But tomorrow I have work, school, weight lifting, film and finally a trip home for the third time this year, so I can vote. I’m not going to say much about the elections except I’m glad they’re over because I’m so sick of the commercials and everything. So I will go home Monday night so I can hunt Tuesday morning then vote then come home to practice. We will have practice on Tuesday through Thursday then make our way up to Havre Thursday after practice for our last game of the season. Our coaches started telling us today and we will be told many times over this week that our season and team will be remembered by our last game and how we perform. Well, hopefully I get something hunting, and have a great week everyone!