Pheasant Hunt - I love to hunt little birdies like grouse and I used to hunt ducks but I'd never had a successful pheasant hunt. I went last year on public land with a guy in my ward and we saw one but I was too slow and he missed it too so we came back empty handed. This year a guy in my ward invited me to go on his land with his dogs. Let me tell you that is the way to hunt those creatures. The dogs would go crazy in the cattails and flush the pheasant out of there like they were flushing a toilet! I did get one (although I'm holding two). Best hunt I've had all year.
Ye Old Deer hunt - For some reason I did participate in this witch hunt. Me, the wife, Dad, and Frank searched in very egregious forms for a mythical creature. I expected to see a unicorn before an actual buck. We hiked mountains, ran through snow, froze our faces off on the four wheelers - everything short of rapelling - but never got one. We actually did see a male deer but he was very tiny. If he were a human I think we would call him a toddler. I could only tell he was a male if I looked through the 12x50 binoculars from a hundred yards away. I would probably have felt bad about shooting him. I'm still deciding whether I should pursue the creature next year.
Land Yacht - My senior design project was to build a wind-powered land vehicle - a land yacht. Please do not confuse this term with the wikipedia's definition of a landyacht. Our was basically a big 3 wheeler with a sail. Our front wheel came off a suzuki motorcycle from the 70's and the back tires are chevy cavalier donuts. It's a honey! We didn't get any good testing on it (yet) because the weather was extra calm after the great snowstorm of thanksgiving. Only this week has it started to pick up.
Christmas Tree - After two sad years of a fake christmas tree we finally got a real one! I'm so excited and love the pine smell when I come home. Molly has also been loving it too - tearing it down and eating the needles anyway (any ideas for keeping kids off the tree??). Plus there is a lot of room for loot underneath it.
6 hour final - Yes you read that correctly - a 6 hour final. For my controls class we have so much material and it's a long iterative process to get the parameters right that the professor let us take the test in the computer lab. Glad to be able to use the lab but 6 hours is a long time! My brain was more deep fried than year old okra (for those of you who've eaten okra).
Molly - Molly has learned how to clap, say da-da and crawl. I think she'll be walking pretty darn soon but we don't want to rush that. More details will come with our Christmas card so I don't want to spoil it for you. Too often I put stuff on the blog and have nothing to talk about when I see people in person.
Graduation - This is my last semester!!
Mars mission - For my dynamics of space flight class we created a mission plan of how to get to Mars. Very interesting project and it's been a lot of work but so much fun! I've probably put 40 hrs into it so far. If my initial flight plans were followed you would have smacked into mars 10 times over or miss the planet by 100 million miles (that's further than from the earth to the sun). Finally got it working today though!
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