Day 992

It was up at 6 again followed by pet stuff and breakfast.  Then it was off to the club.

I checked the three stations I set yesterday.  Dave changed one to report.  I would have done that myself due to a wind change.  He changed out one of the machines on another because I'd used a machine on a platform.   I thought he might do that.  The third one he changed a lot.  I was a little bummed about that.

There really wasn't much for me to do today.  I watched Ellen shoot FITASC in the morning.  I drove around a few times, and went out to fix a machine (someone beat me to it).  I did reload the man lift after each rotation.  I checked some score cards occasionally.

I shot FITASC at 2.  It was fun because the squad knew what it was doing and moved quickly.  It wasn't fun because it was in the 90's and there was no water.  My goal was to shoot 50, I shot 51.  That put me 9 birds off AA1, which isn't bad for the first time I shot it.

Of course the work started when the shooting stopped.  I brought the man lift in and removed the pain in the ass banner.  Then I got a kid to help me unload it.  Then I helped Dave Martin collect his machines.  He had most of them collected by the time I got to him.  I got two of the kids to take down the machine on the man lift and clean out the broken birds.

We had to wait until after the shoot offs to get the last two of Dave's machines.  I spent the time talking to Gerry's wife and kid.  When that was finished I went back to the trailer to feed the animals and take a shower.

We went out to dinner with the Heitlauf's.  We went to Hop Jacks.  It was good food and we had fun talking.

When we got home it was TV, a little surfing, and in bed early.  I was really tired, too tired to do the daily writeup until the next day.