Filling the Freezer, Part 2

And this is also how we fill the freezer...

Thanks, Sharp-Shooter, Kathleen! 

Joe shot pheasants as well, and William kept everyone company. (William has not yet taken hunter safety.)

Filling the Freezer

This is how we fill the freezer for the winter.

Thank you, Joe and John! 

Kathleen is Fourteen!

The years keep on rolling by, and Kathleen has turned fourteen.

What a beautiful young lady she has become.

Our musician.

Our artist.

Our patient and helpful daughter.

Our poised and lovely young lady.

That lovely young lady also took hunter safety this year. With hunter safety under her belt, we decided it was time to get Kathleen a long-awaited gift: her own .22 for target shooting. Now that's a gift. (I think it goes without saying that there are no bullets in the gun in the photo below, and the gun and ammo are kept in separate locked safes, accessible only to the adults in the house.)

Kathleen made her own birthday cake this year.
It was supposed to a paisley-swirls sort of design, although Kathleen was fretting that it looked like fish! :)
We all thought it was very cute.

Our 14-year-old!

Kathleen and her best girlfriends. 

The next day, Kathleen opens her gifts. Including this "big one."

A Hunting We Will Go

Kathleen took Hunter Safety this year and was eligible, for the first time, to hunt with Joe. She had some great experiences in her several days of hunting this season, although she was disappointed not to bag a deer herself this year.

Having said that, we do have a freezer full of venison now, thanks to Joe and his buddies. (And as of today, we also have a freezer full of lamb meat, thanks to our farmer friends, the Wiedenbecks.) Next year, it will be Kathleen also bringing home the venison (and maybe Anna Marie too, as she hopes to take Hunter Safety in the spring).

Bring on the venison stew... the venison jerky... the grilled venison... the venison gyros... the venison shish kebobs...
Mmmm... I'm getting hungry.