Look what I did!
No, really I did this! Why doesn't anybody believe me?
This is how I look when I'm hiking with the boy. Had a beautiful fall out here this year. Lots of great colours and the weather was fantastic. Got a lot of hiking and trail running in. The trail shoes are just about shot though. Gonna have to go find a new pair.
Sarah and I went for an incredible ride the other weekend. Just really stellar. The boys did great on the slick fall trails and nobody got shot, so it was a successful day. How good do Sarah and Bodie look?!
Sarah took this shot of Murphey and I. It was such a gorgeous fall day!
We had a field day at school last week. A couple other teachers and I planned and executed it, and by all accounts it was a success. My team's name was Trechter's Roadkill Stew. This is the shirt I made to lead them into competition.
Here is a massive and intricate fungus I saw while hunting last weekend. Thought mom would enjoy it. I believe it is called a bearded tooth fungus (
Hericium erinaceus). Supposedly it's edible. Think I'll just enjoy it with my eyes.
I'm really good at knowing where turkeys will be... (this is a scratch where one was looking for grubs or insects).... but not so good at being in the right place at the right time. This scratch was made in a 20 minute period between my two passes. They are wily creatures.
The feathers often indicate a roosting location as they are lost in the laughable and incompetent attempts to fly into and out of treetops. Found this one right by the tree I'd planned to sit under, but didn't at the last minute.
Murphy's report on my hunting attempts lately.
From this past Sunday after Shannon left. Grey day pose number 1.
My hurricane survival kit.
Hope everyone is doing well. Things are good here. The wood stove has been on a few times, but until this past weekend the weather was pretty mild. I have been incredibly busy with school this year. I'm involved in a lot of different activities: Saturday school, field trip planning, field day, 9th period (an extra hour after the school day for reteaching and homework help), rewriting the technology plan for the school, and two PLCs. Plus I have a study hall for the first time, which is miserable. I lost 39 minutes that I used for grading and got 39 minutes of yelling at kids to stop talking. Awesome. But outside of the job things are going pretty well. Sarah and I have been blessed with many house guests lately and have been riding and hiking and working in the yard. We need to plant the garlic this weekend, which is fun and exciting. I'm looking out the windows as I write and can see a red bellied woodpecker, two downies, a hairy woodpecker, gold finches, chickadees, a red breasted and two white breasted nuthatches, mourning doves, a couple robins, some sparrows, and four bluejays. All without moving from my seat. We watched a movie, called The Big Year, last night about bird watching that was pretty funny... if you like watching birds. We also went to see Argo over the weekend. That movie really stressed me out. Sarah says she was stressed, too, but I wouldn't know because I was busy hiding behind my had and holding my breath until I almost passed out. That's about all the news that's fit to print. Going to stop procrastinating and get back to school work. Cheers.
