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!

This is Our House!

Welcome my blog readers to an update of my life! So the last time we chatted, hunting season was beginning and we were going to play the Rocky Mountain Bears. Now for an update of both. On Saturday, we did exactly what I said in my last blog, punching the Bears right in the face and sending them packing. Now the game was a good game, and we mentally and physically outdid them on Saturday. Our offense did well putting points on the board, and our defense did good by keeping points off the board from a high power throwing team. Now after the game, Abby and I went to Helena so I could go hunting on Sunday. Saturday night after we arrived to Helena, Abby, my parents and I went to Applebee’s for some dinner. The service is pretty hit or miss there, and that night was a miss in my books because of my dad’s dinner. We all got our dinners, and my dad’s ribs were cold and sauceless. So he sent them back, and they forgot about them for around an hour. So they paid for his ribs, but they still weren’t very good when he finally got them. We were not very impressed. So now let’s talk about opening day. We went up to Rimini from the Basin side, which I can officially say is a long ass way up to our hunting spot, like seventeen miles from the city of Basin. So after arriving to our spot (which we have hunted on opening day since the beginning of my hunting days), we couldn’t get our four wheelers up the trail because of the snow. So we walked up this pretty steep trail, but my dad and I didn’t have a good feeling because the snow was very crunchy while we were walking on it, which means that the elk can hear you from a distance. So instead of doing our usual walk through our spot, we did some walking and then sitting hoping something would walk to us. On another subject, we play Carroll College this Saturday at Alumni Coliseum. Carroll is still ranked number one, but unlike last time, we plan on knocking off the best team in the NAIA. We plan on doing this just like we have done it the past couple of weeks by punching them right in the face and sending them packing. Coach keeps telling us about the great opportunity we have ahead of us to play and beat the team with the longest win streak in the nation. On Thursday I will travel over to Whitehall after practice to do a little whitetail hunting at my uncle’s like I did much of last hunting season. Well, hope you like my blog. Chat with you later.

Opening Day!!!!

Happy Friday already everyone! So is it just me, or does the week just fly by? It seems like we just finished our football game, and then I blink and I’m lined up against our next opponent. I’m being serious. I can’t believe how fast our season has gone by and especially the weeks. I just really can’t explain it. Well on a more serious note: this is a shout out to Andrew Bishop, my Madden partner. Now for a little history, Bishop and I play our share of Madden together and I have only beaten him once in my life. But I made history on Tuesday night playing with our usual teams, San Francisco for him and Dallas for me. The first game was very good with ME ON TOP 10-7. Now due to Bishop’s frustration, he wanted a rematch, so of course I agreed, and I’m proud to say I SPANKED HIM 25-7. Now for me beating him only two times before this, I’m pretty proud of this. Well this weekend is one of my most favorite weekends during the year. HUNTING SEASON BEGINS. After the game on Saturday, Abby and I will travel home so I can hunt Sunday morning and then travel back to Butte for film at 3:15. I’ve never shot anything opening day, but I will try to change that, so wish me luck. I shoot a Remington model 700, 300 ultra magnum stainless steel synthetic with a 3-9 Buckmaster Nikon scope. It shoots 3500 feet per second, and I like to call him “old reliable”. Since football cuts three weeks into hunting season and I can’t go home every time I want to hunt, I go over to my Aunt and Uncle’s in Whitehall to their house to hunt whitetails. I’ll probably start going over Monday nights after film and hunting Tuesday mornings. Now over there I shoot the old rifle I used to hunt with, my 30-06, which works perfect. This weekend before I can go hunting, we play the Rocky Mountain Bears, and we have some pay back to dish out. Last time we met, in Billings, the conditions were grueling, the temperature was roasting (around 97 degrees) and there was not a cloud in sight. Now I’m not blaming the conditions for our loss, but they were definitely a factor. But I feel like we’re in much better shape than the Rocky Bears, and the first play of our game we plan on just punching them right in the face and sending them packing. Well I’ll check back in later. Good luck to all hunters going out on Sunday!