I AM A SLACKER!!
It has been a while since the last update. Things have been busy. Quentin is finishing up with
soccer, Jennifer has been busy keeping the family running smoothly and training her new friend, and I have been bouncing between California and Oahu. I was gone to Cali last month for a superintendents meeting and have been on Oahu for the last week and a half in the area office helping out on a job estimate. I am now just getting back from a trip to the big island.
While I was in California, Jennifer and Quentin found and fell in love with a puppy. Her name is Indie and she is a 7 week old Yellow Lab. Jennifer definitely has her hands full training the new pup.
We are still on Kauai for now. The job I am on is winding down and we do not know where my we are going next. There are a couple big jobs coming down the pipeline here in Hawaii and hopefully we get a chance to stay. It is looking more and more like we are going to move to Oahu to be closer to the area office. As long as we stay in Hawaii, Jennifer and Q will be happy plus it will also allow me to keep spear fishing on a regular basis.
Jennifer is staying busy with the training of the puppy and is still working one day a week for our landlord. She is waiting till the beginning of the year to see where we end up, but is hoping we are still in Hawaii so she can
attend school at the University of Hawaii.
One of my diving partners and I went out 2 weeks ago and had a close encounter with a shark. It was a gray reef shark and got up-close and personnel with us, chasing us out of the water and we last saw him in less than 3 feet of water, too close for my blood. He got within 2 feet of us and I was loaded and ready to shoot if I had too, doubting it would have done much damage. On the plus side however, I was able to land a beautiful parrotfish (which most likely attracted the shark due to the shot I got on him, lots of blood). We cooked him up that night and I still say he is the BEST tasting fish I have pulled from the Hawaii waters. This shark encounter has made me
want to invest in a “bang stick” to be able to ward off the sharks if need be.
Quentin is wrapping up with soccer and they did very well this year. He plays defense and is a great goalie. He is one of the teams premiere goalies and the coach counts on him the most when he is in the goal. He is doing well in school and looks forward to the weekends when he can get in the water and hunt large fish with his hand sling, he is getting pretty darn good with it. I took him out a couple of weeks ago and he got his first fish with a spear gun, he was extremely excited, let me tell you. His fishing stories have already begun, the ones that have gotten away are getting pretty huge let me tell you.
We will update a lot sooner than 2 months. We will post some better puppy photos when we get them.
It has been a while since the last update. Things have been busy. Quentin is finishing up with
soccer, Jennifer has been busy keeping the family running smoothly and training her new friend, and I have been bouncing between California and Oahu. I was gone to Cali last month for a superintendents meeting and have been on Oahu for the last week and a half in the area office helping out on a job estimate. I am now just getting back from a trip to the big island.While I was in California, Jennifer and Quentin found and fell in love with a puppy. Her name is Indie and she is a 7 week old Yellow Lab. Jennifer definitely has her hands full training the new pup.
We are still on Kauai for now. The job I am on is winding down and we do not know where my we are going next. There are a couple big jobs coming down the pipeline here in Hawaii and hopefully we get a chance to stay. It is looking more and more like we are going to move to Oahu to be closer to the area office. As long as we stay in Hawaii, Jennifer and Q will be happy plus it will also allow me to keep spear fishing on a regular basis.Jennifer is staying busy with the training of the puppy and is still working one day a week for our landlord. She is waiting till the beginning of the year to see where we end up, but is hoping we are still in Hawaii so she can
attend school at the University of Hawaii.One of my diving partners and I went out 2 weeks ago and had a close encounter with a shark. It was a gray reef shark and got up-close and personnel with us, chasing us out of the water and we last saw him in less than 3 feet of water, too close for my blood. He got within 2 feet of us and I was loaded and ready to shoot if I had too, doubting it would have done much damage. On the plus side however, I was able to land a beautiful parrotfish (which most likely attracted the shark due to the shot I got on him, lots of blood). We cooked him up that night and I still say he is the BEST tasting fish I have pulled from the Hawaii waters. This shark encounter has made me
want to invest in a “bang stick” to be able to ward off the sharks if need be.Quentin is wrapping up with soccer and they did very well this year. He plays defense and is a great goalie. He is one of the teams premiere goalies and the coach counts on him the most when he is in the goal. He is doing well in school and looks forward to the weekends when he can get in the water and hunt large fish with his hand sling, he is getting pretty darn good with it. I took him out a couple of weeks ago and he got his first fish with a spear gun, he was extremely excited, let me tell you. His fishing stories have already begun, the ones that have gotten away are getting pretty huge let me tell you.
We will update a lot sooner than 2 months. We will post some better puppy photos when we get them.
