Lucky Lizard

After enduring what could only be described as either "Death by Boredom" or "Death by Overeating", I shot the field/hunter round at Gator Bowmen today and shot a pretty good score for myself -- 308/560. I don't think I've broken 300 in the presence of both human company and a score card yet, so today's shoot went very well. I even had competition for once and it was very, very close -- he got me by 15 points and it was just the perfect day to be out in the woods.

In other news, I stumbled across a rather entertaining music clip (click either here or the title. You'll know about 2 minutes in! I don't know what it is about "Miststück" that cracks me up so much aside from it literally translating to "Crap Piece".

Random Camera Clean-Out

Yes, I probably should've cleaned the mirror a bit before doing this, but gimme a break, my toilet, bath tub, and sink basin are clean! The 20 lb weight doesn't feel very heavy anymore.

Pictures from the Outdoors

Possums are funny... this little fellow hung out by my stand for nearly half an hour and was pretty oblivious to me even though I started sneezing and accidentally flashed it with my camera. It just looked up, sniffed, and went back to looking for tasty bugs and worms.

Cute but annoying visitor to my tree-stand...

A tree core taken with the increment borer by one of my forest ecology students. It smells good!

Sarracenia (of some sort)! Or in plain English, pitcher plants! I never thought I'd see them here in Florida but there they were at Austin Cary Memorial Forest! I really like carnivorous plants in general -- they are so much cooler than many other plants even if some are passive! I like plants that kill bugs!

FAA Target 2010

For the full suite of pictures, click on the title or here. The weather was truly gorgeous and I loved the slight morning chill that heralds the arrival of fall. The humidity was reasonable and everything was good aside from a bit of a brutal wind that liked to knock down arrows during the Classic 600 round. Overall I was pleased with my new aiming system, which involves both the use of the arrow shaft and the red elm stripe on my riser. There was a lot of correction in my left-right error but I still have a lot of work on my up-down plane. Nonetheless, I enjoyed having some nice tight groups, even if a lot of them were in the wrong place. I think the pictures below explain a lot of the story too.