We got out of the heat and went to P-town for the weekend.
It was so nice watching the temperature drop from the high 90's to 80, to 70, and then finally to 63 when we got to Panaca Friday evening. It was chilly when we got out of the car! But it felt soo good. Mama always says her favorite thing about living in Panaca is that during the summer, it can get hot as heck, but as soon as that sun drops the windows are opened and the cold air comes in all night. If only that could be the case in these here southern parts of Nevada.
Saturday, we slept in. Oh sweet sleep! Played with David's new scope. Went to the spring to check out the set-up for the triathlon. Giulia ran home. Then we headed to Pioche for the softball tournament and other excitement. Preston was so excited for me to experience Labor Day the Lincoln County way. He had a running list of everything I just had to try. But we get to Pioche, and Preston is all upset because none of the vendors were there. The story is that some lady got on "the board" this year and put a ban on any outside vendors so that her concession stand could make more money. Or something. So, I guess it wasn't exciting as it usually is. We watched Zach's softball game and then headed for the hills. The dove hunting season officially started, and David wanted to take Preston. After going to several different water holes and not finding much, David wanted to go "deeper in the mountains" and check out this "one spot that I went to years ago". Mostly he wanted to check it out for deer tracks and maybe see some deersies. We hiked in to that one. And still didn't see much. Kind of a bummer but it was good exercise!
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| big man on campus. |
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| takin' a break at the water hole we hiked to. just followed the sound of the water |
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| I missed the memo to look normal? |
I need to note that the cell phone service was horrendous that weekend. There was so many people in town that you could rarely get a call through. Extremely frustrating when you're trying to get a hold of someone to let them know that you won't be there for primary.
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| while i was trying to get a call out, david was doing this |
Before the parade started we walked "uptown" to check out the street dancing. What a site! haha. They had a live band in the street and everyone was gettin' their groove on. The drunk ones are always the most fun to watch. ;) After getting our fill of people watching and busting out the occasional moves ourselves, we got back in our seats and watched the lit up floats pass by. It was fun. Never been to a parade in the dark before. no pictures...woops!
Sunday, sunday....I can't remember what we did Sunday morning....I think we slept in again. Went to church.
That afternoon we had fun at the gun range. My arm was sore for days from throwing the clay pigeons.
And then that evening was the big fireworks show in Pioche. What a show it was! Best fireworks show I have ever seen! It was great!
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| ya'll already seen this one. this was before the works got started. |
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| attractive! |
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| I almost have the serious face down...kind of... |
Monday morning we woke up early for some more hunting. Driving through town we were so excited because Doves were packed on every power line. Sadly, none were to be found in the fields.
However, David and Preston chased down a jack-rabbit and Giulia nailed a few stink bugs with the .22.
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| David does the serious face so well. Me... not so much. |
That morning was another parade- where candy was thrown left and right! Yum yum! After that there was games and races at the park. I won the 13 and up skipping race and got like 50 cents!!! woot woot!
On the way home from that excitement David and I pulled off into some other fields. David was feeling a little jipped about this bird thing. We theorize that it was still too cold for them to be out in full force yet. Sorry honey. Anyway, we stopped in some fields and David got out with the shotgun and went on the hunt, and I took a nap in the car. :) He came back about 45 minutes later with a few birds and a smile on his face.
We headed back to the house and David fired up the BBQ. He put together a marinade the day before and had the chicken soaking up that goodness for 18 h ours. Threw that on grill. YUM! I spotted a "Tater Twister" in the laundry room, pulled that sucker out and went to work makin' some curly fries to go along with the BBQ chicken. Healthiest meal ever!
And then the time came when we had to say our good-byes. That part is never fun.
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MAN YOUR HUSBAND IS AWESOME!!!
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