Target Practice

Today was a pretty good day, with temps in the mid 70s and all the house work done it is time to relax. We were originally thinking we might get to go to the beach today but Shannon had to give the WAIS exam to some student and didn't get done till about 4. I thought i would be cute and set up the beach chairs in the back yard so that when she got home she could at least pretend we were at the beach, and that was nice until...... I realized our yard would make a perfect shooting range for the BB gun.



Now as you all know I'm a highly skilled marksman. I'm so good that the Navy Seals called me last week with questions about how to adjust for windage while they were trying to rescue the U.S. Captain from the Somalian Pirates. Now Shannon on the other hand.... this was her 1st time to use any kind of a weapon, and I will have to give her credit once she learned how to look through the scope she wasn't half bad. To make this fun for her I created a few targets to help ease her into it.



As you can see we have a plain ole Bulls Eye, then on the left is Zombie Man and on the right the evil Lord Voldermort. Now all those little black marks are shots. As you can see we payed attention in our Zombie survival classes and remembered you have to shoot them in the head. I guess the same goes for ole voldie too. haha but like I said as you can see for her 1st time Shannon did pretty good. While we were shooting we even got a few spectators. The Dulaneys' were hanging out doing their normal Friday Family night and some out ended up convincing us to try a "William Tell" shot with an Apple. And as you can see.......



I told you I was good. This led to a little friendly competition between Shannon and I and quickly spread to Daniel. Only thing he didn't want to have to drive around the block. Now If you remember we had a little gap in our fence that was small enough for hunter to get from the Dulanys in order to retrieve the occasional rouge Frisbee. Well we had talked about putting in a swing gate so we didn't have to pull a Wilson every time we wanted to talk, who knew today we would actually make come through on that plan.



Next thing you know we had the whole crew over here, and since Daniel couldn't hit the broad side of a barn we quickly moved from target practice to Bocce Ball. All in all it was a pretty good time Drew helped water my yard (twice) and couldn't get over he was now playing where Hunter plays. Grace Anne had fun creating her own game using practice golf balls and the cardboard box we used as a target. The girls watched for a while as Daniel and I faced off in some intense games of Bocce Ball (BTW hes actually pretty good at it actually both him and Lori were pretty good by the end of it all). All in all it was a pretty good afternoon. Maybe one day I can get Shannon out to a real range and put her skills to a test. With that said remember help control the pet population and have your pet spayed or neutered.