One of the blogs on my blogroll is Deer Hunting Big Bucks.  Adam took his 2 year old son fishing for the first time this past weekend and he caught his first fish.  When I saw his picture I couldn’t help but smile.

Look at this little cutie and his first fish! 

Head over to Deer Hunting Big Bucks for more photos and see how proud and excited his Daddy and his Grandpa were.  There is also the cutest picture of his little brother who just turned one on July 3rd.

Have a great day all!

Have a Sportsman, Collector, Dealer, Law Enforcement or Military person in your family? Campbell Industrial Supply  (Gun-Racks.Com) provides high quality Rotary Gun Racks and Pistol Racks. They are a family owned business that takes pride in their American made products.

Gun-Racks.Com products include; Rotary Gun Racks, Pistol Racks and Stationary Corner Racks.   Head over to their website and take a look at their products.  My hunter is eyeing the corner rack. 

Have a great day all!

Every week or so, I check out our local DNR website to find out what is happening in the state of Indiana. Did you know you can find some great resources on things that are happening in your state on their local DNR website? For example, currently on the Indiana DNR website they are showing a video for “Wear It - Indiana”. It’s a video about wearing your life jacket when being on the water. It’s a good reminder.

They also have information about the 11th Annual Sand Sculpture contest being held at the Indiana Dunes State Park on July 12, 2008. What a fun way to spend a summer day. Whether you are 5 or 105, you can enter the contest or you can spend the day watching those that have entered. Visit the Indiana DNR website for more information.

Did you know if you’re a teacher in Illinois the IDNR will help you establish a fishing program in some counties? They can assist with education and equipment to make fishing a talked-about, popular activity at your school. Here is the link for fishing in your school. I had no idea something like this even existed.

I took a look at a couple of other states and they all seem to provide a ton of information for what’s happening in your state. Looking for something for your kids to do, a lot of states are currently holding kids fishing derby programs. If you’re not an Indiana resident but would like more information on your own state DNR website, you can find your state here.

Have a great day all!

Happy 4th of July

One of the biggest celebration in Highland, Indiana is our local 4th of July Twilight parade. It is one of the largest parades in our county. The parade is normally about 3 hours long. Here are a few photos from last night’s parade which we were able to walk to from our bike trail.

There were so many people. They had lawn chairs, coolers, little baggies for candy and look at that little mohawk.

My great niece Addison stood and waved her flag for most of the parade. She also did a few dances when some of the bands and DJ’s went by.

This is Mr. H. I’ve known him since I was little and he was involved in our local little league. Everyone in town knows Mr. H. and knows how much team spirit he has. Just take a look at those pants and that megaphone. If something is happening in town you will always see Mr. H. there.

And finally, after a long evening at the parade and all of that fresh air these two rocked themselves to sleep.

Have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend and please remember our troops who are fighting for our freedom and independence.

Mark and I have a busy weekend:

Thursday night:  Parade

Friday:  Carnival and fireworks

Saturday:  Cookout with family, work on notes for meeting Sunday

Sunday:  Meeting in the a.m., maybe fishing, blogging, sit in the sun, lay around - my favorite.

So what is on your schedule for the weekend?  Anything fun and exciting?  Will you be blogging?  Will you be reading blogs? Maybe fishing?

Lori at My Wooden Spoon is giving away a $250 Visa gift card.  All you have to do is tell her which recipe you like from her recipe collection and if it has pictures.  That’s it.  The contest ends July 11, 2008.  Lori is holding weekly giveaways thru July 31, 2008 so make sure to add her to your feed reader.

She has a lot of great recipes on her recipe page.  She just posted the Tomato and Cucumber Salad recipe which would be great to make this weekend for your 4th of July celebration.  What I like about Lori’s recipes is they are quick and easy. 

Have a great day all!

This is my friend Sue’s (the e-mailer) daughter who recently went fishing for the first time.  I wish I was there to see how excited she was to catch her first fish.

I also wish I was there to take a few lessons from her.  Do you see how she has ahold of that fish? 

She is seriously my new fishing role model.  I need her to tag along with me on my next fishing adventure so she can show me how to handle those fish.

Way to go Lauren!!!

*** My guest post is up at Simply Outdoors.  Head over and read Simply Outdoors with Barbies.***

Have a great day all!

We were hoping to have everything complete to launch our new blog today. We still have a few minor changes and will keep you updated as to when the launch will happen.

Happy July 1st!

Saturday our fishing friends came up north and we headed to Lake Michigan to fish for perch. The perch are normally in this time of year but the fishing reports from all the locals and our local bait shop guys have said they still seem scattered.

On our way out I took this great view of Chicago.

As we got closer to the hot spot for perch, there were at least 50 boats congregated in the same area. We inched our way in.

Mark was making and receiving calls from locals to update them on how we were doing and how it looked like the others were doing.

We were on the water for about 5 hours and only came away with 13 perch. The limit is 15 per person. Some of the perch fishermen did reach their limit but they were out a few hours earlier.

Here is one of the perch taken.

It sure wasn’t fishing like it was at Lake Barkley in Kentucky. To fish around here, you need to have much patience.

For those of you who are new around here, this post contains the google search results of how a person searched specific keywords in Google and found my site.

I can’t tell you how many “sexy” searches for hunting and fishing I’ve had. I’ve debated for months about using the word sexy on here in fear of attracting more sexy searches.  But I just couldn’t resist anymore.  So here you go you little sexy searchers…

Sexy Fishing - There is nothing sexy about fishing.  You are up at 4:00 a.m, there’s no time to shower and you fish at least 12 hours.  You have worm guts under your freshly painted finger nails, on your leg and those guts some how end up on your forehead from scratching it.  Hell, I probably ate one that fell in my pop. 

Sexy Fishing Pictures - Here you go…this is what sexy fishing is all about.

Now isn’t that just the hottest thing you’ve ever seen? Or how about this…

Isn’t that just the sexiest fishing face you’ve ever seen?

You’re not going to find anything sexy about fishing. Serious fishermen and women are fishing. They don’t have time to worry about what sexy thing is on the water. I learned the hard way.

Sexy Fishing Wives -  I really tried being a sexy fishing wife with my flashy pink fishing rod and no one ever noticed.  I even added a little grove when reeling in my rod and never even received a glance. They are focused on one thing and one thing only. Fishing.  Believe me, I tried. You can read about it here.

Have a great weekend everyone!  Weather permitting - we will be headed out to Lake Michigan fishing.  I don’t even think I’m going to attempt to bring my sparkling pink fishing rod. 

If you’re interested in purchasing the pink lighted fishing rod you can do so from here.