The Ride home

I woke up kinda late like 8 am so i could get the car packed and ready for the ride back up here. I did not want to leave home it was hard for me to. I said my good byes to my family and headed to the gas station and get gas and breakfast. I sat there waited for my  friend to get there because she is riding up with me. When she got there it was abut 10 Am so we started off to highway 75 to head north. it was smooth sailing till we got crossed the bridge then everyone was driving slow on the roads so the car were all pilling up with traffic.  So that started to slow down my driving which was adding more time on to my trip. I was trying to get back at a descent time so i could get my homework done and be able to relax. I went to pass this car and my car had like no power to it and i was having trouble getting around the car and there was a car coming towards me and almost hit it but i got around the car. That  was the only scare i had coming back up here. I ended up getting back here around 5 ish so i made good time. I still had a lot of homework to do so i unpacked and started to work on that.

Thanksgiving

I love this holiday behind Christmas. I get to see all my family and eat some of my grandma herbert cooking. My aunt boyfriend came over and brought his mom and uncle. It was weird having new people at our dinner. I helped my grandma cook some food and help her with everything. I ate so much food and i regret it i had like 3 plates worth of food. I had the worst stomach ache when i laid down after eating. I couldnt eat my grandmas homemade apple pie. My aunts bf uncle wife was getting so annoying i couldnt take her being so annoying she would just keep talking about stupid shit. The one thing that really bothered me was her talking about how she kept asking about y grandpa the one that passed away last year. Im still shooken up with him being gone and she wouldnt leave the subject alone. I was already annoyed and i couldnt keep myself from exploding up on her. I told her to shut the fuck up and pretty much drove home without saying goodbye to everyone.

Best Friend

It was nice to see my best friend seth. He has been my best friend since grade school he came home wed. He went to Trine to play football. We have played sports together ever sense 5th grade so it was hard not being on the same team as him this year. I did keep in touch with him while we were in college. It was weird not having him just a mile down the road to call and hang out. Instead he was 15 hours away and are busy times with sports. Well when he got home we went out to eat with our other friend dillion who went to state. He went on a wrestling scholarship so all three of us went on a sport scholarship. When the lunch was over we all went to the movies and saw the mocking jay. I liked it a lot, it didnt have a boring spot in the movie at all. When the long ass movie was over we all went back to dillions house. We watched this movie and hung out with his parents and talked about how college is doing.  we got really bored so we started to play water pong in the kitchen on the kitchen table. Then play ping pong with our phones ya you can say we were really bored.

My animals

I also got to see my lambs from last year. It was hard being away from my animals for that long being with them everyday and then being away from them was hard. I took them for a walk and also showed the kids how to set up a lamb and how to proper show them. I got to play with the pigs which was fun. I like to play a game with one of the hogs is ride it around and she will walk around like a horse and listen like a horse. I also will get in the pen with the pigglist when there big enough and kick a ball around and let them chase it and push it back at me. My favorite to play with is my goat loddy. She comes and tries to headbutt with her head so ill catch her head with my hand and push her back. When i got done playing with the animals my family and I make grave blankets and Christmas reefs. We started doing this about 3 years ago and with me being gone we were behind on orders. So we started to crank them out and when i left we were only behind like 3 orders.  

The new steers

I got to go down to the barn and see the new show steers for this year. I also was excited because i got to teach little kids proper ways to handle a steer and to break them to walk. I was able to get lead ropes on 3 of the 4 but the fourth one was being a little shit. So i had to run him into a head gate so i could put his halter on. The big problem was he started to flip out and kick the safety bars around him. So we had to give him calf calmer which is a paste you give to the calf to calm it down. I had to talk to it and touch it to calm it down so we would be able to walk it around the barn. WHen i took it out of the head gate it started going crazy again so i have to wrestle it to the ground. I finally got it to the ground and held it there till the kids got to a safe place and let him up and put him back in the pen with the other ones. I needed to show the kids the proper technique so i grabbed my od show heifer from last year she was being sassy expalins were she got her name. I started to walk her around the barn and set her up to show the kids how to set up the animal. I let the kids come up to her and pet her while she stood there and ate grain.

Hunting

I woke up at 530 to get all my gear ready to go out hunting. When it was about 630 i loaded my car and headed to the woods it was about 7 when i got to my blind so a little before day break. I started to walk through the foot of snow in the woods. I got to my blind on the edge of the swamp out in the woods. I sat up my pop up blind and got into the blind and got all my gear around and set up. I sat there and called with my calls and just sat there freezing my ass off. Finally i heard something coming from my right. I looked over and i saw brown so i started to look for horns but i couldnt see its head behind the bush. Finally it walked into my shooting lane but it was a doe. I didnt have a doe permanent so i couldnt shoot her. She continued to walk up closer to my blind finally she is sniffing my blind right up close to it i could have reached out and petted her. When you but your tgs you have to have a small game tag to. So since i wasnt seeing any deer i waited for chipmunks to come in. I would shoot them with my little 22 hand gun i carry when i hunt. I shot like 4 of them and brought them home to eat.

The first day home

I woke up in my room kinda confused why i was in my room. It just felt weird to wake up in my own room. I went down stairs to see my family and my mom had breakfast cooked and already sitting on the table ready to eat. so we sat down and ate breakfast and talked and caught up on things. I helped my mom clean up the table and do dishes. Then we went out to watch to tv as a family we looked outside and it starts pouring snow. I told my parents i wasnt going tp leave the house because of the roads. I really wanted to go hunting tho but i didnt have my tags yet. I ended up going to walmart that night to get my tags. I went home in the snow storm when i got home my mom had made us dinner we had some roast from my show steer left over. I ate dinner and  helped my mom clear the table so we could play cards. Its tradition to play cards after dinner in my house the choice of card games are usually poker or uerche.

The drive home

I woke up with excitement knowing in 3 or 4 hours i would be heading home. This would be the first time going home sense I first came up here. I was also nervous because this would be my first time driving home by myself. I didn't leave in till 1230 because i had to wait for a the person that was following me to get out of class.   So when she got out we filled up and took off down the highway and started are way south. The gps said we would be home at 8 so im thinking to myself this is going to be a long ass ride. I did 80 pretty much the whole way home i started to knock off some time. When we got to the bridge it said 730 i stopped and got gas at the bridge and saw that and thought to myself im making good time. We went a crossed the bridge not knowing that the wind was as bad as it was. The wind started to shake my car so i started to get a little nervous but i made it over the bridge safely.  We got over the bridge and was a strait shot home from there. I made it to birch run and had to get gas and get a snack. This was only 25 min from my house so i was getting excited to be home. So i gunned it home and finally i was home i pulled in the drive way and my mom had dinner waiting for me ready to eat. She made my favorite dinner cubed steak, potaotes, and corn.

deer camp

This is the first year of my hunting life that I missed deer camp. That is a family holiday in my family it was hard for me to miss it specially because almost everyone got a deer while they were there this year.  It really is hard this year because its the first year my grandpa hasnt been there because of him passing away . This was hard just not for me but the whole camp because he pretty much was the whole leader of deer camp. He made sure the cabin was all ready for us when we all got up there and just made sure everything went smooth. It will be OK because ill be  heading there this weekend once we get out of classes. I will be spending most of my time off at deer camp hoping to shoot a deer.

The last game

This week was our last football game for the season against Findley. I practiced my ass off all week leaving it all out on the field . since i play scout team i needed to give the defense a good look to make sure they had a good look. It was a pretty crazy week since it was the sr last week of playing. So they were going hard cuz they knew it was there last game. The ride down there to Findley wasnt a bad ride which was nice. The game didnt go as planned we were beating them and they were coming back and they ended up beating us by a field goal. It was a hard loss since we lost a lot of games by field goals. It was a hard loss to because it was the sr last game

Last week= stressful

Last week was a really stressful week both my English classes are doing research projects and it was also a big week for football we played now number one team in the nation. My focus was mostly on that but i had to focus on the essays. The one essay was do on that Friday this one wasn't as  bad because i had researched and focused on that topic i got that typed out and turned in no problem. My 103 project was a different story i put that off till sunday because my parents were up for the weekend and i wanted to spend time with them. So when sunday rolled around i had to read 60 something pages and write this essay i had done no research on. So im sitting there reading stuff on the internet and watching a documentary at the same time writing notes down. When i had enough notes i started typing out this essay to make it to pages wasnt that bad

A wild weekend in Ohio

So this weekend we played Walsh university down in canton Ohio on the hall of fame field. It was my first time ever being to there on that field. We had a 10 hour drive to our hotel in Toledo Ohio, we stayed in a hotel there which was nice. We got another hotel in canton to stay at to eat dinner and change into our gear. We went down to the field and played our game we started out fast started scoring on them. They started to come back on us but we ended up winning the game to put us at 5 and 4. We drove back to the hotel we have in Toledo and got to stay there sat night. I went right to bed cuz i was tired and had nothing to do. We got up the next morning and ate breakfast and had our sunday meetings. We took off shortly after that for home, we got home roughly after 7:00. I was happy to be back so i could get hw done and sleep in my bed. That was a good day because we didnt have to lift and have study hall we just got to relax.