Appleseed coming up!

Good news! Our Appleseeds are now listed on the Appleseed website! Here is the link to the Event Information Page: http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=31220.0
Please take the time to pre-register, as it helps our planning and preperation a lot... And it saves you a few dollars too! You can pre-register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4142731020

Prairie Days 2011: Friday

Hello All!

I will start off my official review of the 9th Annual "Prairie Days" with a photo of the welcoming sign posted at the entrance to "The Park":



Once again, our family had a very enjoyable time at Prairie Days, both being with old friends, and meeting new ones. This year we had the opportunity to meet some fellow bloggers, the K. family from Minnesota, so that was a lot of fun!  Be sure to check out their blog "Green Pastures Farm" 

 Prairie Days started out on Friday this year, with the special addition of an Appleseed shoot! If you are not familiar with the Project Appleseed program, be sure to check it out at http://www.appleseedinfo.org/.  It is basically a marksmanship class, with the special addition of some history of the American Revolution... Very interesting, and also very helpful!   My good friend Jonathan, (From "High on a Mountain") is the ND coordinator for the Appleseed project, and also a "Shoot Boss" -- the head instructor for an Appleseed event.  Seeing as there were quite a few people registered to attend, and none of the other instructors were able to come, he asked me to be a "Range Safety Officer." Basically I made sure that all of the guns were unloaded and safe, and helped with some of the demonstrations... It was a lot of fun! Here you can see me in the official Appleseed sweatshirt and cap:

I also like this photo of Jonathan and I:

Here is a photo of the shooting line:

And everybody down at the end of the range examining their targets:

 Here you can see everybody in the house for lunch, and a quick history lesson:

We actually arrived at Prairie Days on Thursday evening, in order to be there right away Friday morning. Here are a couple of pictures of us boys setting up our tent:

 Thankfully we didn't have any really bad weather, although it did rain some... Glad our tent didn't leak!

 That's about all I have to say for Friday, but check back soon for the rest of my review!

  Andrew B.

Early Birthday gifts.

Hi all! I am back once again, thought it was about time I let everybody know what is going on around here. :-) 

 It is already the first of November, and my brother's and my birthdays are fast approaching! Where does time fly to?
 This year, for our birthdays, Dad decided he wanted to get us started hunting phesants. But, seeing as we didn't have any shotguns, or any experience, he took us up to Bismarck last Wed. and we all went to Scheels. We came home with 2 new shotguns, 2 cases of shells, and a case of clay targets! :-)  Dad, Jacob and I went out and practiced shooting both Friday afternoon, and yesterday, which was a lot of fun. And we actually hit most of them! :-)

 Last night, Cora decided to give Jacob an early birthday present too. What was it? The DVD "The Widow's Might"




This is an AWESOME video! It was produced by a group of homeschoolers, on a very minimal budget, and with very little previous experience. I can not say enough about the CHRISTIAN morals in the story, the PHENOMENAL amount of effort put into the production of this video, the AMAZING job that these kids did in their acting, and the VIDEOGRAPHY\3D EFFECTS were great! I can not say enough about this video! If it were made in Hollywood, I don't think the video could have been put together better, and I KNOW the morals wouldn't have been there!
 If you are looking for a good, Christian, family friendly video, THIS IS IT! I would even recommend it above the popular "Facing the Giants", or "Fireproof", or even "Come What May."
 There is a reason it took the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival's  Audience Choice award, AND the Best of Festival award, (With the $101,000 prize!)
 Overall, I would reccomend this video to ANYBODY!

 I guess you can probably tell that I enjoyed watching it last night, right? :-)

 Today, we are planning on moving our stock cows home from the summer pasture, so we will probably have pictures of that on our blogs soon...

 Have a good day!