Two Camo Princesses and our Prince Charming: The weekend

This week has been crazy busy with fire stuff! Monday we had a call after work, Tuesday we had the gas leak and burned the house, Wednesday I had to help one of the fire class students study and do skills, Thursday we had to teach the final fire class and were there forever. Chris came home and went right back out on a call til about midnight. Oh and add working 40+ hours a week a piece and having a family lol! We were ready to finally be able to get some stuff done around the house this weekend. We ended up only getting about half done.

Early Friday morning we ran some errands and then went and got a truck bed full of top soil. I needed more dirt in my flower beds out front. We weeded it and piled in new dirt.

Then I planted my strawberry bushes out front this year

Chris had to go to a fire meeting with the county so I unloaded the rest of the dirt into the garden and dog pens. I also had to burn Todds pile for him. Rue and I headed over to spend a few hours on it.

It was so hot outside and Rue was dying from the heat so after we went to the river run off to let her play for a minute.

Snow white and Mom Kennedy came to play in the backyard

Poor Ry was exhausted and crying to go home. Sweet Uncle Chris took her to the couch to watch movies and cuddle with her. They fell asleep together on the couch and spent the night like this.

Early Sat morning I was out planting my garden. We went a little different this year. On the far right end is tomatillos, then zucchini, yellow squash, mixed bell peppers, mini red bells, jalapenos and tomatoes

The girls are finally big enough to get out on and play on their own. They spent most of the weekend starting to roam the yard for the first time.

All the playing made Snow White thirsty

We also had to run to town with Taylor so he could buy a new side by side. Chris has some hookups so we went with him. When we got back it was Mother Plucking time.

We had 36 of them to do

I was able to get in a little bow shooting time

and Chris between projects had been working on making some camper jack stands for Taylor's parents.

It was headed later into the evening and we were outside. Chris said "hey why dont you go grab the shotguns and we'll try and catch the turkeys headed to the roost" Sure why not ha.

We headed up to a spot where we knew some were at. No camo, blue jeans, no face paint, no binoculars. As we got close we saw some and headed in. Chris was mouth calling one with out a call and it kept responding. We couldn't tell if it had a beard or not. It saw us and didn't care. It was more content on the noise Chris was making. We had a few birds to the west of us and this one to the east of us. We finally got a silhouette view of it and I saw a little beard sticking out. This is after about 10 minutes of trying to decide if it was a hen or not. It had a red head and was gobbling but we couldn't see a beard and it wouldn't strut or puff up. Once we were sure it had a beard it started moving away from us. We hiked some up the hill following it. I had my gun with a turkey choke and Chris didn't have a turkey choke for his gun. He took a shot at it with his and it didn't phase it. He saw his pattern go right around it and it shake it off. I told him take my gun and go get it! We were hiking up the hill and Kennedy was watching us from the side by side (we were in plain view of her still). He had it across a ravine from him and made a 55 yard or so shot with my gun and dropped it. We had to hike down to it and found its little beard! This is his first turkey ever!