Happy Fathers Day

It was a busy day yesterday that started with us all getting up around 5 to head to the swim meet. Both boys did great either winning a race or two or coming in a close second. It was cold until about 10 but then warmed up. We finished up around 11 and made it home soon after.

The oldest and I decided to go to the sporting goods store to get some shotgun shells as this morning he and I along with Matt (my hunting buddy) and Steve (another hunting buddy who owns a sports bar downtown by the Rockies Baseball Stadium) are all meeting at Kiowa Creek to shoot sporting clays. My Mom is always nervous when she hears anything about shooting. I guess she doesn’t remember Dad taking me duck hunting when I was 12. On top of that, I’m one of the most safety oriented guys you’ll ever meet when it comes to firearms. As I’m sure most of you know, it’s my passion and hobby and our kids have a healthy respect for safety and all firearms.

After we went to a few stores with Matt meeting us, we headed down to Steve’s place for some lunch on him before heading home. The oldest chowed down on chicken tenders, some wings and most of my french dip. We made it home by about 3:30.

Meanwhile the youngest had a play date with his friend from swim team. We all just hung out the rest of the day.

Today as you know is Fathers Day. The day itself is just another day but being a dad is something special as is being a Mom. It’s really the single most important job I have and the one that means the most to me. We have a couple of really good boys and everything we do is with their well being and future in mind. We’re pretty lucky.

As I said, the oldest and I are leaving around 8 for the hour drive to the eastern plains to shoot some clay pigeons. We should be home around noon and then we’ll all do something together as a family. It’s going to be hot today, they say in the high 90’s so we need to get out early. I’m running the sprinklers now as the grass is already getting brown which is not good considering it’s mid June.

The boys just came down to wish me Happy Fathers Day. To my surprise they were holding an old antique single shot shotgun wrapped up! It seems our neighbor, Mr O Connell came over on his own yesterday and gave the boys this antique shotgun to give to me for Fathers Day! Now they didn’t go ask him or anything, he just came over on his own. It’s really old and has a 4 digit serial number but that’s all I can see so far. What a nice gesture from him to think of giving the boys a gun to give to me! The boys always take them trout whenever we go fishing and he knows we like shooting and hunting, I’m speechless! It’ll look good hanging over the mantle in a cabin someday.

I normally try t0 stay away from politics on the weekend but just can’t. You can stop reading now if you like as here it comes. First off, I just can’t get over the President essentially buying 1 million votes with his amnesty program for illegals. He’s even letting criminals stay in our country instead of deporting them. Check this headline out,

Democrats and Republicans sparred Saturday over the part of President Obama’s executive order on illegal immigration that allows some applicants to avoid deportation despite having committed crimes

How can anyone support illegal criminals to stay in our country and on top of that, give them work permits and let them vote? This guy is something else, here’s a list of his accomplishments that are firsts for any President, pretty amazing all the work he’s done!
Whoever said that Obama hasn’t  accomplished anything in his first term?

WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS!…

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then
deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has
never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally
obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease
implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a
third party, a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs
when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

First President to recommend changing our National Anthem as it
portrays and promotes violence and is warlike in its theme.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer Breakfast and activities.

First President to initiate a Cash for Clunkers Program to clean up
exhaust that adds to global warming, then extended it because it was
so popular — wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of
companies to his union supporters.

First President to bypass Congress and implement the Dream Act through
executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the
deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those
with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of
his political appointees.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law
unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke
out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company which state they
are allowed to locate a factory in.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath
to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been
properly issued years ago.

First President to fire an inspector general of Americorps for
catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half
years in office, 90 to date.

First President to pledge complete transparency while campaigning,
then hide his medical, educational,and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights
and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by
the taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year
at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an and tells us that the early
morning Islamic call to worship is the most beautiful sound on earth.

Ok, a dog trainer on staff for $102,000 a year! I didn’t believe this one in particular so I did a little research and you guessed it, it’s all true. Wow that must be one well trained dog!

Anyhow, you get the point, he’s not who he says he is. You have to peel back the fancy talk (as he’s very eloquent) and really look at his policies and things he’s done. It’s time for him to get a new job. I can’t believe I’m saying this but where’s Hillary?

Take care, God Bless
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