Archives For Life in Abilene

On day six of creation, God announced to his archangel underling, “Today we’re creating a place called Canada. Pull out all the stops. Give it beautiful mountains, lakes, plains, forests, and sandy beaches. Under ground, give it oil, gold, etc. Oh, and plenty of fish and wildlife.

“Sir” interjected an archangel, “aren’t you being overly generous to these Canadians?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll balance it out,” said God. “Wait ’till you see the neighbors I’m giving them.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

An American couple get hoplessly lost while driving through Canada. Over the objections of her husband, the wife calls out to a pedestrian, “Hey buddy, can you tell us where we are?” The pedestrian smiles sympathetically and says, “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.”

After she rolls up the window, her husband says, “I told you it wouldn’t do any good. They don’t even speak English up here.”

POTATO NADES!!!!!!!!

May 13, 2010

In WWII, A Japanese sub came up from the water right next to a US ship. The Japanese guns couldn’t shoot that low because the US ship was so close. So the men went inside to grab their guns. The US ship didn’t have guns, all they had were a bin full of potatoes. So, they started pelting the sub with potatoes!!! The Japanese thought they were grenades so they stated throwing them back and into the water. This made time for the US ship to get into a position to fire on the Japanese sub.

That’s a MacGyver move. 😛

On Friday, we went to a friend of dad’s piece of land to play airsoft. There were 6 of us including dad. Caleb gave me a little army man that was stuffed with candy (Jimbob) who we shot with our airsoft guns.

We went for lunch at Cracker Barrel and after that, we went to skate a bowl. We didn’t go to airsoft until after 4:00 and we left at around 9:00. It was a good day.

Here are some pics

Fun 2 weeks!!!!!

April 26, 2010

Aaryn came over for two weeks. A few of my favorite things that we did were:

Airsoft.

He was here for 2 Sundays so we got to go to airsoft twice. The first time was not too hot and a little bit cloudy. But the second one was too hot. It was still fun though. He used my AEG and I used my sniper. The first week the Lubbock team was there and we whooped them a few times. The second week was just AA.

Prime Time.

We got Prime Time passes where we got to try everything once: lazar tag, go carts, bumper cars, race car thingy, and some other stuff. The go carts were the best. Caleb was ahead most of the time but right before the end, I passed him.

We did a lot of other thing but those were my favorite.

Lakes

April 19, 2010

I read in a book that Canada 60% of the lakes in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake. That’s more than all the countries in the world combined. So I researched about lakes in Texas. There is only one lake in all of Texas that is NOT man made. It is called Lake Caddo. All of the other seven lakes (just kidding, there is more than that) in Texas are man made. The natural lake is in northeast Texas. The biggest lake is in southeast Texas and is 114,000-acres. Hmmm, might be big enough for more than two people, eh? Most of the lakes are fresh water, but there are a few that are salt water. There was no web site that had a list of just the salt water lakes.

There are 169 lakes in Texas, if I counted right. That is not that many for such a large state. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/lakelist.phtml. There are at least 100 lakes in Alberta. I couldn’t find a complete list. It says there are 89 but the list is incomplete. Nova Scotia has the most lakes in Canada which is 142 (again, if my counting is right). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Alberta. Nova Scotia is approximately 21,000 sq. miles (not meters). Texas is approximately 270,000 sq. miles. Texas is more than 10 times bigger than Nova Scotia. There would be 1,420 lakes in Nova Scotia if it were the same size as Texas. That was counting the number of lakes there are, not the size. But you have heard it said, “Everything is bigger in Texas” (except snowmen).

We won???

April 7, 2010

After losing all the hockey games up until now, WE WON!!!!!!! 6 to 5. I was on the red team and I’m in the middle of the picture. I joined late and our team had never won a game so this was exiting. Aaryn took the picture.

Evil Eyes

March 29, 2010

Nothing can describe the thoughts that were in my mind when I saw that despicable thing. Slithering through the long grass waiting. Waiting for its next meal to appear in its evil eyes. Who know what it would strike down or who. One bite would cause unbearable pain and suffering for its victim. Nobody would be able to stand the pain, screaming and yelling just one word,  help……..

To be continued…….

I took some pics of a tree that was blooming. They say it’s a pear tree that doesn’t grow pears-ornamental 👿

whoa.... where did that come from

Preston came here for a few days and this is what we did with him.

Make blue cornbread

Scared the cahooties out of me.

Built cool things out of lego.......

......and getting stuck on the butt of a big armadillo

ewww..... he should pick his nose more often

ahhhggg..... he got back at me for that.

played dodge ball.

First Sign of Summer.

March 8, 2010

Ahhh…. The first mosquito bite of the year. One that stays for a week and is the most itchy. I got it yesterday at airsoft. We are planning to go to Colorado to go biking for the summer. I can’t wait. We are going to go to different places and the one we think is the best we will spend more time there.