Christmas Contentment

Had to share this one of Case at his new house with his Christmas Tree...

Party time...

we had a birthday to celebrate as well as Anette turned a "significant" age and Brandi tried her best to not get in the picture.

Police Chief Jack Schultz presents Ash Harmon his certificate as Officer of the Year

Well, we had our annual Christmas lunch Wednesday at City Hall and it was a lot of fun. We ate too much and handed out our service awards and our Employee of the Year is Lamont Jenkins. You saw him in an earlier post as a deer hunter.

More from Clarendon

Melanie and I with Josh and Kody

An albino wild turkey

You can click the photo to enlarge it and if you do you will see a fairly rare sight in nature in the bottom photo. The albino hen wild turkey was pretty cool to see. The other shot is Melanie and I with the Amarillo group while on our adventure to the water falls.

What Goes Around...

Grandson Josh enjoying water fall icecycle
Mule deer doe watching her yearlings


The Happy hunter with host Ryan


A happy hunter Lamont with his buck

Sunset on the High Card Ranch

This is a story of paying it forward and then getting paid back. Each summer, daughter Kim and her husband Ryan host foreign exchange girls through a project of the Amarillo Downtown Lions Club (Ryan is the president). The last three summers they have brought their girls along with sons (grandsons) Josh and Kody.

This summer, the fun had just started when my boat had a serious engine problem. My neighbor and co worker Lamont loaned us his boat and we were able to show them a good time on the lake. Before Ryan left, he told Lamont he would get him on his dad's ranch for a deer hunt this year.

Last Thursday, Lamont and his wife Sandy and I traveled to the High Card Ranch southwest of Clarendon and it was a trip Lamont will always remember. In less than an hour he bagged a buck that weighed about 300 pounds and had a 21 inch spread. Not being a deer hunter myself, I just knew the thing was huge. Lamont said not only was it the biggest deer he had ever killed in years of deer hunting, but it was the biggest he had ever seen.

After the deer hunting was over, we took the gang on a hike to the water falls on the ranch and did some turkey hunting (Ryan and I Both bagged a turkey), saw lots of wildlife and some awesome sunsets and stars. Melanie drove over from Midland to join us and we just had a great extended weekend.

Pay it forward... you never know

Many thanks to Ryan and his family and the cowboys at the High Card for a wonderful weekend.

For those who don't know this, you can enlarge the photos by clicking them.