Wordless Wednesday: Dusky (Blue) Grouse

Wordless Wednesday: Dusky (Blue) Grouse October 7, 2009

Filed under: Family, Food, Henry, Hunting, Natural Living, Spiritual Journey — Anisa @ 4:17 pm

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3 Responses to “Wordless Wednesday: Dusky (Blue) Grouse”

jenny Says:
October 8, 2009 at 10:49 am
I love how he has his leg crossed over his knee while he sleeps. What a funny kid!
rachel carlson Says:
October 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm
cheers to henry, great photos!
On Hunting… « Schell Urban Homestead Says:
December 7, 2009 at 5:11 pm
[...] Rick says ‘thank you’ to each animal whose life he has taken to sustain our own. When he shot the grouse with Henry, we taught Henry how the grouse died so we could eat. How to treat it with respect, and how the [...]

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101 Things in 1001 Days

The List
1. Finish the List
2. Inspire someone else to write their own list
3. Post the List on my blog for all to see.
Spiritual
4. Find a church to attend regularly and attend it regularly
5. Raise Henry & Emmett to love and fear God.
Rick, Henry & Emmett
6. Help Rick find his passion & do it
7. Help Rick work for the DOW or himself in the next four years.
8. PLAY with Henry & Emmett everyday
9. Teach Henry to read, write, spell, and count
10. Buy a bike trailer/stroller/sled.
11. Buy Rick a new bike
12. A new wardrobe for Rick
13. Get a membership to the zoo
Relationships
14. Write a letter to people in life that I feel have hurt me in some way. Do not send letter.
15. Let go of issues re: above people.
16. Send care packages to loved ones far away
17. Visit Grandpa at least once a month
18. Be nicer to my mom
19. Reconnect to an old friend that I’ve lost touch with
Self
20. Buy a string bass
21. Join and play in an orchestra
22. Write a book
23. Don’t leave kitchen messy before bed
24. Stop saying “like”
25. Get braces.
26. Buy a mountain bike
27. Hunt an elk successfully at least one time
28. Take a college class
29. Finish my childbirth educator’s certification (estimated completion: November 2009!)
Home
30. Install shelves in the basement
31. Get a dartboard for the basement
32. Paint the interior of the house
33. Have a refrigerator with a freezer drawer on the bottom
34. Have a nice wool rug in the living room
35. Install central air conditioning in my house
36. Have an white iron headboard for my bedroom
37. Have a bed for Henry with drawers underneath it.
38. Buy a front loading, energy efficient washer & dryer
39. Remodel my bathroom
40. Finish the basement
41. A workshop for Rick
42. Redecorate & create guestroom in the office
Garden/Yard
43. Finish the fence
44. Install an Invisible Fence for Josie
45. Grow one of those ginormous pumpkins
46. Raise Bees
47. Handmade picnic table (hint, hint, Rick!)
48. Adirondack chairs & chiminea for the back yard.
49. Build a brick patio in the backyard
50. Install stone pavers on the current back patio
51. Build a bat house
52. Learn to can and make jellies, and preserves etc.
Business
53. Start teaching classes by 2010
54. Get involved with Xylem, possibly teach for them
55. Set BIG goals for my business
56. Achieve those goals
57. Not have to work in anyone’s office, but Rick’s or my own again.
58. Have my business pay for my family’s health insurance
Financial
59. Have zero credit card debt
60. Pay off the 4Runner
61. Live at 3650 S. Grant Street until we buy land
62. Pay off Rick’s student loans
63. Be less materialistic
64. Own land in Colorado
65. Get life insurance for myself
Travel
66. See the Aurora Borealis
67. Visit my family in Tennessee every two years
68. Visit the Minard’s at least every-other year
69. Climb every 14er in Colorado
70. Visit Santa Fe
71. See Mesa Verde
72. Vacation in Yellowstone
73. See the Channeled Scablands in Washington
74. Attend the Cherry Blossom Festival In D.C.
75. Go to the Great Sand Dunes
76. Take Rick on vacation in San Francisco
77. Book a Grand Canyon rafting trip (four days minimum)
78. Visit Alaska
79. Visit Hawaii
80. Ride the Silverton/Durango narrow guage railroad
Other Stuff
81. Make a sock monkey
82. Take a scrapbooking class or two (or three)!
83. Get my scrapbooks up to date
84. Use the cookbooks that I have - twice a month make a meal from them
85. Make (sew) some things (quilts, bags, ???) to sell.
86. Start an etsy shop and sell the things I’ve made.
87. Go fishing and eat what we catch
88. Own some very cool cowboy boots
89. Own horses
90. Bake bread weekly
91. Be able to live independent of the grocery store
92. Raise beef
93. Take a cooking class
94. Play a gig with my dad’s bass guitar
95. Snowshoe more than three times a season
96. Hike more than three times a season
97. Have a live Christmas tree & plant it after the holidays.
98. Snorkel in the ocean
99. Send birthday cards to friends and family
100. Try raw milk
101. Learn to make cheese

Deadline: Friday, February 25, 2011

Extra Credit (Long Term) – these may take more than 1001 Days:
o Volunteer as a 4-H leader when Henry’s old enough to join 4-H.
o Take a Disney vacation w/the Minard’s
o Move our garage to the other side of the lot/make it open into the alley
o Remove the driveway, landscape the side yard.
o Have a small greenhouse/garden shed.
o Have enough money to get Henry braces if he needs them.
o Have a big front porch with a swing.

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