Here, Pig Pig Pig.

It was a nice sunny day, (on a Sunday He-he!), last week, and Dad and I were out hunting at the pines. It was opening day yesterday and Dad was working so we came out today on our push bikes for a little exercise. Dad was on night shift last night and he said he’d pick me up from mum’s place straight after work. So mum got me out of bed at four o’clock  am and said “Dad will be here soon.” So I lazily put on my clothes and boots and headed out the door to wait for Dad. It was nearly a full moon so I could see quite a way in front of me. About five minutes later I heard the whine of Dads Ute coming up the drive. I jumped in and said by to Mum (Mum being Mum she kissed me on the cheek and told me to remember my manners. !MUM!). Then we drove off home and had breakfast, fed the pup and got the bikes and dogs loaded on. So off we set, into the night headed for pig country. When we were half way there Dad asked if I had my tramping boot that I used for hunting. I quickly felt around blindly in the back, bummer I left them at home “You want to go back and get em” he said. Not really a question “ Ahh, Please?!”. So we turned around and got my boots of the front porch and headed back out. We got to the dam at half-past seven and started off up the BIG HILL. Man, I didn’t know how unfit I was! We got to the top after a lot of panting and puffing on my behalf. Dad decided to check out the old village and a dump that leads off of it. Then we came back down a little further and went in to the re-growth. And headed off down the main trail. There was only one other group in there apart from us. We got to a place where we had gone in once before and the dog were particularly keen on that area. So in we went up on top of the bluffs and came out on top of a knob with lots of pig rooting. Dix sped away to the other knob and we heard one bark, then Deak and Bryn sped off down there as well. Then weheard heaps of crashing and stuff and this black pig came rush ing past. Dad was ever ready and gut shot the pig as it sped past. About five metres away we found the pig dying under some toy-toy so Dad let me stick it. My first pig. Decent size to. Dad said we would make him into roasts mainly and hams out of the back legs. It was a short time ‘cause we left the truck at seven-thirty and we were back by nine o’clock.

A couple of days later Dad ran into one of his mates and told him about the pig. And then the guy says that if Dad’ll give him a roast, he’ll give us some Duck Salami. Choice! I’ve never tasted duck, let alone duck salami.

LOUIS L’AMOUR

The books that I have been reading lately have been written by a guy called Louis L’Amour. These books are exceedingly good. His most well known books would be the Sackett series.

“One day when I was speeding along at the typewriter my Daughter asked me ‘Daddy, why are you typing so fast?’ and i replied ‘Because I want to see how the story turns out!’

…Louis L’Amour “

The book I’m currently reading is Jubal Sackett. It is a good book for confident readers. I highly recommend trying one of his books or visiting his site. If you want to read more about a book, then click here then click the hyperlink to the book.

Hunting for Deak

On Easter Saturday I went hunting with Dad at Ngaroma. We took Two of our dogs, Deak and Dixie (But everyone calls her Dix). We didn’t take Bryn because she was getting old and she had a pup to look after. When we got to the old crossing the dogs took off down the way we had come and then shot into the bush. We didn’t know which side they went in,so it was hard to call them back. we waited for around 3/4 of an hour and then Dix came back so we waited some more then went back to the truck to see if he was there, but he wasn’t. So we went back and had another look then we went home and had tea. It was ten o’clock. Every day for the next week, Dad went looking for Deak out at Ngaroma. At the end of the week we went to Uncle Andy’s for a couple of nights. On Sunday Dad got a call from Mum say a guy from some station found Deak. So we went home that day and Dad went out later and got Deak. HE WAS REALLY SKINNY!! But he had been with out food for a week.

Wellington

Last week my class went to Wellington on a school trip for six days (Sunday through Friday). We had to be up at 6:30 and have our bags packed and have breakfast and then be at school by 7:3O!!

It was a Long trip. One of the places we went was Capital E. Were we had two sessions on Monday and Friday. We had two groups A&B. I was in group B. On the Tuesday my group went top the sound house. The first thing we did there was make our own music tune. Then we used our music to make a music video. On our second session we went to the Onty Program and made our own version of “This is your Life” If you want to veiw or listen to our stuff all you need to do is gon to the Capital E website just click Here then make your way down until you find SOUNDHOUSE or ONTV.

Design

Last week on Friday the yr7’s started Design at Tech Arts. Design is cool. Its like hard materials. My Uncle said that when he was here they used to call it “Manual”.I like design because I like building stuff. This week in Design we made a circuitin electronics and learnt about electrons and atoms.