Day 2930

 I woke up about 8 and played games for a while.  Tenn it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was relatively warm and we could see that it was going to be a really nice day.  We decided to go shooting.

Before shooting I reviewed the invoice from the Bronco guy and had Ellen send off checks.  The bill is near $10,000 which was kind of my upper limit on spending.  It will cost a little more than that, but shouldn't top $11,000.

Going shooting would also allow us to take the two old bikes from the village garbage day to the donation site.  It turns out that going to that site is just a slight detour on the way to the club.  I loaded the bikes and the shooting stuff into the truck and we took off.

Dropping off the bikes went well and getting from there to the club was easy.  We got to the club, renewed our membership, and got a cart.  We didn't need targets.  We have two cards with a total of about 4,500 targets.  Then we set off shooting.

The courses have been rearranged, so it took some time to locate the challenging targets.  They weren't super hard, but they made you pay attention.  I think we spent more time talking to people than we did shooting.  

A guy stopped and asked us about how to shoot a target.  We agreed to help him.  That turned into a fairly long coaching session.  I let Ellen do the coaching, she's much more experienced.

We went back to shooting and ended up talking to the course worker.  She and her husband live in a trailer and travel to different contracting jobs.  That gave us a lot to talk about.  We mentioned that Ellen teaches and she asked if Ellen would give her lessons.  They exchanged names and numbers.  We'll see how it goes.

The only fly in the day was that the cart died.  It had run like shit all day and finally quit.  I don't think we would have shot more than a couple of more stations anyway.

On the way home we stopped at a small grocery store near the fairgrounds.  It turned out to be a Mexican market.  It had LOTS of the mango pop that I like.  I bought 6 bottles.

We stopped at Doc's on the way home.  It was good as always.

When we got home I put everything away, fed the cats, and tried to read the mail.  For some reason I was logged off.  I knew the password, but it wouldn't send the validation number to my phone.  Instead it sent it to Ellen's email.  It took me a while to work it all out.  After that I sank into the recliner and watched videos.  There was also a little nap.

I didn't get up until it was time to go to bed.