Dad's Outdoor Journal

Hmmm... It turns out that my kid has better timing that I do...  You see, tonight he asked me to print out a paper he typed up for English class.  As I printed out his paper, I started reading it.  As you can see here, he wrote up a summary of our duck hunting trip before I have.  Below is a copy

Since my last post was about our Ice Fishing trip back in February, It's about time I updated Dad's Outdoor Journal...   Last fall on The Life of a Father of Five, I posted about #1 of 5's interest in, and subsequent foray into the world of archery.  A New Hobby (link) In that post, I made a pa

Since I have done such a poor job at updating here on DOJ, I felt I better get this post finished, and not wait until "evening approached"... In my defense, many of my "outdoor activities" have been GeoCaching. I put together another blog just for my GeoCaching... GeoCaching with Dad But... I digr

Yesterday, my closest friend Ed called me and shared a story that was too good not to share..  After getting off the phone, and thinking about it - I dropped Ed an email, and asked him to write the story down.  I felt it would make a great "Guest Post", and since a couple of the major participants

Event: The College of Wilderness KnowledgeLocation: Birch Bend CampgroundDate: May 16-18, 2008 Having one son in Boy Scouts for just over a year, and a second who just "crossed over" - I have unfortunately been unable to attend any of the monthly weekend camp outs. I was required to, and able to spe

Saturday October 6 - Monday October 8th 2007.This year's Duck hunt was what I would consider a real "wash out".Due to an (unexplainable) lack of interest in hunting this year, an overall deficiency of and for motivation regarding all things hunting, and an already way to busy schedule, I was serious