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May 01, 2006

My Weekend - Part II

Saturday after sleeping darn near all day I made my second trip out to "TheCountry" to visit with MRF, Sunshine (beautiful little 2 1/2 yr old), Ma and Pa. I got there about 7:30 and we grilled pork chops and broccoli and corn on the cob on the grill and then sat outside under the stars and ate dinner.

Sunshine finally went to sleep about 9 and we sat up and watched a couple of movies and then went to sleep. Sunday morning, when I woke up, everyone was awake and I was told that there was 4 racks of ribs in the oven and would be ready for dinner in time for me to get back home at a decent time.

We spent the day sitting outside on the patio at the RecHall. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, not a cloud in the sky and a nice cool breeze. Ma and I sat there and talked about what I was going to cook next weekend when I drive out there. It was so relaxing and such a peaceful day. UNTIL.

There is a little pond that encircles the gazebo and there are three grown ducks and 4 baby ducklings (that are only about three weeks old) that live on that pond. In the pond there are also snapper turtles and meaner-than-hell mutant frogs. MRF has been assigned the job of "DuckSafety" so we got the golf cart and circled around and around and around the pond for hours with a pellet gun. Driving slowly waiting for a head to pop up and then Ready! Aim! Fire!

When he explained to me that we were looking for turtles and frogs to kill with the gun I just about cried. How in the world can you kill an animal like that, I swear Carrie would be disowning me as a blogfriend for cruelty to animals. But then I saw one of the turtles jump up and try to snatch one of the baby ducks and I said give me that darn gun.

I think we successfully kept the Ducks safe from 3 or 4 turtles before dinner was ready. For dinner, the 5 of us had 4 racks of ribs (that were so tender they were falling off the bone) and a large pot full of corn on the cob. After dinner, we went back out on "DuckSafety" duty and Sunshine and I sat in the back of the golf cart watching the ducks while MRF looked for turtles.

There was one big head that popped up and he shot at it two or three times before it finally worked. This time it was a frog and I am kicking myself for not getting a picture of this mutant frog. The frog, stretched out from head to toe was, as tall as Sunshine! I am usually ok around frogs, the Little ones that you see in your backyard from time to time, but when this MutantFrog started moving as if coming back for his cat-like 9 lives, I jumped off of that golfcart so fast and before MRF even had a chance to laugh at me I had Sunshine and I on the couch in the gazebo.

He walked around carrying the MutantFrog for everyone to see and then as he was getting back in the golf cart to take it somewhere away from the pond, the frog leaped out of his hands and took off hopping. MRF said that he was guessing that that frog was probably at least 4 pounds and that today after work he went back out to the pond and shot another one that was even bigger. I told him that he had to get a picture if he shot any more because the Blogland wouldn't believe that I helped shoot a frog that was as big as a two-and-a-half year old.

I left "TheCountry" about 9pm and got back home about 10. It was a nice weekend, I got to go hang out with some cool friends on Friday and then go to "TheCountry" and relax the rest of the time. The only thing that sucked about this weekend is that I had to come home and do laundry before I could go to work this morning.

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