Richard's Flight

My, Its been awhile since I've wrote! But I've been so busy That I haven't had time to post anything. Well I guess I'd better go now.
-Rich

 This morning I got a walking cast on so hopefully in two weeks I will have no contraptions on my foot. 

 This morning Mom took me into town to see an Orthopedic doctor about my ankle. It took 3 hours for whole ordeal and we found out that I have a fractured ankle. I had to get a cast on and they let me pick the color out. I picked dark blue. They gave me crutches and the cast has to stay on for 6 long weeks. 

Last week on Wednesday I left with Dad to meet Uncle Wayne in Sioux Falls. From there Wayne and I headed to his house and the next morning, Thursday, we left for Mississippi for a youth duck hunting trip. On the way down we stayed over night in Missouri and the next morning, Friday, we arrived at the Country Club in Charleston, Mississippi. We ate lunch there and meet the guides that would be with us while we hunted. Then we went to the Lodge where we were going to stay.

The next morning, Saturday, at 4:30 we got up and left to go the location where we were going to hunt. (About 10 miles away.) There were three other kids in my group besides me. Andy, Josh, and I can't remember the other kid's name.  At around dawn the first group of ducks came in. Andy and I each got 1. I shot 2 more later that morning so it was pretty exciting! That afternoon another flock of ducks came through and I shot one, it started to fall and then caught it's self and flew away!

On Sunday we woke up at 4:30 again and went to the same spot. The day wasn't too exciting because only 3 ducks came in and I didn't get any. We came back to the Lodge at 9:00 in the morning and packed and left for home. 

Driving through the night we got back to Uncle Wayne's at 3:00 Monday morning. I slept in really late! Around 10:00 Wayne took me out for a ride on this Arctic Cat ZR 700. He took me for the first ride and showed me how it worked, and I won't mention how fast he drove! Then he let me take it out and I had a blast! I went to the Bean Field where there's a long stretch and went for a wild ride!!! 

On Tuesday I went out snowmobiling several more times. That evening I had a little mishap while driving the snowmobile over a bump that I didn't see. Anyway, I ended up with a sprained ankle...

Wednesday morning Wayne, Pat (his wife), and I drove back to Sioux Falls and met Dad and he drove me the rest of the way home. We arrived home around 5:00 pm.

During this last week Mandy and I made some sand bags for my army guys. Mandy took two pictures of them and I took the last one.
 

Yesterday afternoon I went grouse hunting with my cousin David and my uncle Tim. Tim shot three and David shot one. I should have gotten at least two but I got too excited and missed both:) Here is a picture of Tim, Sadie (The dog), Dave,and me.

P.S. I'm holding three birds.

Well I just finished the rest of the ships. So here they are. 
     

Yeehaa!!

 Guess what I just did. You'll never guess so I'll tell you. I beat Dad in foosball!! (That is a very hard thing to do.)The score was 10-8. This has been a great day for me.

Mandy and Kelly have been dying to cut my hair, so tonight I got a NEW LOOK!!  Short and spikes.  I  don't have any gel yet but we're getting some soon.  Mandy took our school pictures too tonight.     
 

 I was looking in my folder and found this pic. We were having a bonfire. It looks kind of like an explosion.
 

 This morning Mandy, Abby, and I went skiing.  We had a lot of fun.  I would guess we have about a foot of snow.  Well got to go do schoolwork. 

Yesterday I found this funny picture.
 

Here is my Battleship. It is patterned after the U.S.S. Missouri. 

Next time I post I will create a Cruiser. It is going to be pretty hard.           

   Well is are the tank and the submarine I said that I would make. 
 
  Next time I update I will make some more ships.

 Well I just finished three more Islands. So here they are.




                               Garnet


                                Lazuli


                               Zircon
Next time I post I'll show the ships and tanks up-close. 

                               ~Rich 
 P.S. Zircon is good and the others are bad.

On Sunday afternoon we went to my grandparents. Papa has the best tools in the world! So you can imagine what I did there :) I brought my knife along and used Paps's Dremel on it. (I use it to grind off sharp corners) 

These are three islands that I've created. I named each island after a jewel. Lapis is the enemies' island and the other two are the good guys' islands. I'll be making more. Click on the image to see it larger.



                 Jasper Island


                         Doipside Island


                       Lapis Island

Hey all,

This is my first shot at blogging.  Until I post in more detail view my profile.

-Rich