Saturday

Cole and Heather finished their Hunter Safety course today.  The course had met on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 for the past 2 weeks. They had their written exam on Thursday evening, and today was the "hands on" part of the exam at the shooting range in Orleans. They first had to complete some field exercises during a walk through the woods. They had to practice safe fire arm handling and carrying. The instructors had set up scenarios in the woods with fake animals  and the students had to identify "safe to shoot" or "not safe to shoot" situations. 

Then, back at the firing range, they were observed following instructions to safely handle, load, and fire at a target.

 In this picture, below, Heather is obscured by the stocky fella in orange. 

 After passing the written exam and field excercises with flying colors, Heather shows off her test paper, target, and orange card (which they are required to have to obtain a license.)

 Cole also passed with flying colors!

 Then, after a quick costume change in the car, off to Heather's soccer game! What a change in weather from last week. At 42 degrees it seemed strange to think that last week I was dripping with sweat just sitting and watching Heather's and Wayne's games.