Willard's Winners

My husband is hilarious, check out his blog here. And by the way, he did not prognosticate for Auburn, but I guess that is because it is a given, of course we will beat Louisiana-Monroe, WAR EAGLE!!

Cowboy Up!

Bonnie and I stepped into a portion of humanity that we knew very little of the other day. We have joined a church and Sunday school class. We enjoy both, and are meeting knew people that we are growing to like. One of the members of our Sunday school class is into Single Action Shooting. Now I became familiar with this sport while I was in Texas. A good friend of mine took me to a few matches, and it is actually fun. Single Actions shooting is a sport where men and women get together, dress up like Cowboys and girls, and shoot at targets with guns common to Cowboys of the late 1800's. It is a quick sport, and a mental sport as you have to shoot the targets in the right order. Everyone that we met at the event was extremely nice, and tried to include us in their sport. We had a great time. Enjoy the pictures below.

Here are a group of cowboys getting ready to shoot at one of the four stages. As you can see they dress authentically. To the right of the picture you see one of the shooters unloading his guns. The gentleman on the far right is observing him ensuring that he unloads safely. They are very serious about handling your weapons safely. Thank Goodness!

The object of this sport is to use your shotgun, rifle, and six guns to shoot targets in a specified order in the shortest ammount of time. You can see that it can be a smoky and difficult proposition at times.

Here is one of the target set ups. You shoot the small square targets with your shotgun, the yellow targets in the back with your rifle, and the red targets in the front with your pistols. Some are really fast, and some are just there for the fun.

Long Weekend

Wow, what a weekend! It all began when Bonnie was able to get off work early so that we could start our mini-vacation. We drove to Knoxville on Friday afternoon and spent the night. We had attempted to do well at planning ahead by looking for the best hotel at the best price online in order to save some $$$. Well, we decided to stay in an area that is minutes from downtown Knoxville which has lots of hotels and restaurants. So, we booked our one night stay at the “Best” Western. We got to the hotel and everything looked OK, so we left to go eat dinner. We had a great meal at Outback and then back to the hotel to veg out and watch the Olympics. The bed in the hotel room was not great, but it seemed to be doable. Around midnight Chris was in so much pain due to the hardness of the so called mattress that we began to consider leaving the hotel. The front desk person allowed us to try the “best” suite before leaving, which was just as bad as our regular room. So, at about 1am we left the hotel and went down the street to a better hotel and checked in to much better sleeping conditions. We didn’t get to sleep until about 3am! Yikes, it was a long night.

We had driven to Knoxville because we were on our way to Bonnie’s family reunion. We were about an hour late for the reunion due to needing to sleep in, but nonetheless it was a great time for Chris to meet his new family. We didn’t get back until 8pm on Saturday night and were completely exhausted due to the hotel hopping done the previous night. Our lesson learned is that we probably need to spend a little more on the hotel in order to get an acceptable mattress to sleep on.

Sorry no pics, I will do better next time!