Well... here it is the duck season in PA is over.. ended with not much fan fair... so not we are headed to Chincoteague, VA... get to hunt with my brother and Capt. Artie...
starting to work on DU stuff and Worlds items... also going to hunt Crow when I get back... repaited several plastic Crows and now I got a pretty good full body rig...
Wish us luck... well at least we will get to see some bird in the refugee....

Well.. welcome to the new year... here is a shot of Ben and his first Black Duck... we were hunting the last day of 2012 and we got this bird to commit to the decoys...
We hunted today... and missed on some geese... don't know where my head was on that shot...

Now.. back to the holiday festivities... and going to try and finish some birds up this evening...

Well... Here is  a photo of a mini Loon that I just finished... put this bird on a cherry base with waves carved in...
it is about 6" long and a fun project...

Well... here it is the day before Christmas... been making a few items for the big day...
here is a photo of the news guys at shop doing a little carving...
Also a photo of a Red-Headed woodpecker that I did... this one is carved coming down the tree...
Next week will be time to tie up loose ends and then get carving for the upcoming competition season... have several ideas for our local DU and for Worlds...
Want to wish everyone a great hoilday... enjoy the time with family and friends...

Well.. I guess you all been woundering what I have been up too... here are some shots of  us finishing the 1st Hometown Marathon... Mark Sullivan, Robin Sullivan and I were the only competitors on this run... we had help along the way from our pit crew of Sue Smoker, Jeri Smoker and
 Ben Drumheller...   we trained with several long run and when the day came the weather was good and we ran 26.2 mile around the local area...
Also had several folks from the local running club tag along in sections... want to thank Rose, Dan,
Mark and Doug for giving up part of their Sunday to run along and all the encouragement...

Now back to carving and running shorter distances...

Well... here is a mini Can that I carved awhile ago... been hunting ducks and carving alittle... doing the basement over...working on some mini for Pepper's Art Store... and helping others with their projects....
Will post pictures of the stuff I'm working on now...

Well.. here is what it looked like out our window the other day... the big storm has not been fun...
some damage here.. but are problems are minor compared to alot of folks that we know...
Duck season is just around the corner... getting the decoys together, the boat, and looking foreward...
Carving a bunch of little items... going to start my contest stuff shortly...