Shootin’ the $*!#.

Clay… that’s “shootin’ the clay.”  As in clay pigeons.  It’s starting to become a tradition for my father’s “ThankChristmas!”  We find a full weekend somewhere in the middle of the crazy month between Thanksgiving and Christmas where we can all get together and spend a few days celebrating.  It’s much more relaxed then trying to see everyone for two hours on both Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.  We like it.  Plus, it gives us extra time to do things like going out to the shootin’ shack and and knocking clay pigeons out of the sky.

We rigged up an arm to hold the pigeon thrower!  If you look closely you can see the couple of welds that I put on.  Man I miss melting metal in sculpture class!

It was a cold day!  But even my little niece Caitlin came out to see the show.

In the past (more then a few years ago) it’s been my Dad that was the person to beat.  Even though he shared all of his secrets with us, he normally brought the trophy home with experience.

So remember how I said “used to be the person to beat.”  Well the past two times that we’ve done this, it’s been Jennifer that’s been the one to beat.  Last time she won with a perfect 5 for 5.  So this year, everyone was after her.  I don’t know if she was just toying with us or not, but in practice she went 0 for 6.  I think at that point we all felt a little better… that was until she went perfect in the first round and ended up going into a shoot off with one of my brothers.

Although she didn’t win in the final round, I think she was pretty happy to beat out 5 of 6 boys with a shotgun.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!