3rd weekend at the hunting shack!

So far, each weekend, we have had one less guest at the Gile Road Hunting Shack. Weekend One we had all five Olsons, weekend two--there were four and this weekend there were three. Katie decided it was just too boring and horrible to be at the hunting shack so opted to stay home with Anders who was working at DQ. I sure missed the other two, but it was pretty special just being with Osten.

We arrived on Friday afternoon, picking up the 4 Wheeler at Bud and Bettys, some pizzas at the dairy and headed to the shack. We had pizza, watched a little Despicable Me movie and went to bed.

On Saturday morning, Brad went turkey hunting early. When he returned (no turkey), I went on a 7 mile jog while Osten and Brad went into the woods to fell a few trees. The jog was great and the boys had great success felling trees. Then we spent the afternoon hanging out, playing cards, reading and riding 4 wheeler.

 4 wheeler!

relaxing in the hammock

 reading under the blankets on the hammock

baking some premade cookie dough

ploughing through the cookies while playing cards

checking out a turkey feather

In the evening, I went on a long walk and the boys went turkey hunting. I got back to the shack, was playing some solitaire when I saw this out the window...

two deer in the path and two in the brush right after the path.

The boys returned with no turkey, but we ate some leftover pizza, grilled cheese and tomato soup.

We watched a great movie called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind--or I should say the first 40 minutes and then we all decided it was time for bed!