Oregon A-Team - Part 30

Pictures from Front Sight

Post author By Ashton
Post date March 9, 2008
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In the beginning of February; Anna, Ashton, David and some of David’s Associates finally made it back to Front Sight Firearms Training Institute! To be brief, here’s a picture blog of how it went.
Front Sight has some great facilities:

Here’s a picture of the four-day defensive handgun class hard at work:

Ashton and Anna Learning how to shoot:

Anna on the firing line:

Ashton: (I am still trying to figure out why I hold my shoulder that high… meh, at least I shoot straight)
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Doh… no more bullets. Looks like someone needs an Emergency Reload. (x1)
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Kristy had a good time, as only Kristy can 😉
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We went inside to the classroom for some instruction and some very intense learning sessions:
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And then we had a beautiful purple sky on the last night of shooting:
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We all had a blast, and Anna and I are very excited to go back again very very soon.

Watch out: the Second Amendment is coming

AshAnna

Ranch

Rock Pile 1

Donald, Anna and I took a hike up our hill yesterday to get some exercise. As we approached the top of our hill, we came upon a large pile of loose rocks in front of a perfectly flat 3 foot square rock. The pile or rocks basically leaped out at us and said “Build something with us.” So Donald and I answered the call. After almost three hours of grueling engineering and heavy lifting, we were done with Rock Pile 1:

Ashton and Rock Pile:

Donald and Rock Pile:

View through the Rock Pile:

Voila!
Hopefully the wind won’t blow it over. 😉
-Ashton

Married Life

Handyman Weekend

On our “little red house”, there is a six-paned window facing the “street.” And a couple weeks ago, one of the panes just fell out and broke. So Anna ordered the new window and gave it to me to install it.

Since I have so much background in installing windows, I’d thought I’d put up a couple pics of how I did. I think it came together nicely.

Before:

During:

After:

Voila. Window installed.
-Ash

Horses

Lazy Horses

Well it’s the middle of winter up here and it’s been pretty cold but you wouldn’t be able to tell with the behavior of my horses. I just happened to look out my living room window and this is what I saw.

Girls Napping

This is Ogellee (my old mare), Liana, Ossette & Onora.

Liana and Ossa

A close up of Ossette and Liana with Rosco prowling to see if he can cause any trouble.

Ogellee

Ogellee claiming her pile of hay.

Sisters Napping

And my favorite the two sisters Ossette & Onora laying head to head.

Trips & Activities

Christmas in a Nutshell

Anna and I (Ashton) woke up and opened all the gifts in our stockings. We started cooking breakfast, and Carol and Buddy showed up. We ate and opened all our gifts. Some gifts of note include: 2 tickets to Garth Brooks Concert at the Staples Center, Star Wars Risk, “under-cabinet radio” for the kitchen, and lots of modeling supplies for me.

Presents

I did some donuts with the four-wheeler and then we visited with our neighbors. Their 10-year-old son got a “Marble Factory” where the marble runs down all these different shoots, and slides… but someone had to make it first. So I spent an hour on that.

Here’s a picture of the aftermath of Our presents:

Presents
Note my Star Wars Risk Game in the front.

Then we went to Carol and Buddy’s for Dinner and some board games. We played my new Risk game “Risk – Star Wars Original Trilogy Edition” and a variant of Backgammon. I won the backgammon game and the first game of Star Wars. I was the Rebels, Anna was the Empire, and Buddy and Carol were the Hutts.

The first game of Star Wars Risk lasted 30 minutes… I had just enough time to explain the rules to Buddy, and then I won.

The Second game, I got hammered as the other two teams fought it out to a very close game. Anna ended up winning by wiping me off the galaxy.

Nothing like getting owned by your wife at Risk to finish off a great Christmas Day =).

Merry Christmas to you all,
Ashton (and Anna)