Painting Business

Baker-n-Sons Painting: The painting business that Coy, Zac and I are now running has a newly updated website.  Please feel free to offer any advice or suggestions on improving the website.  Thought you might like to see it.

New House

In May we closed on the purchase of our new home - a farm house with 15 acres, built in 1860 and  located in Ashe County, North Carolina.  See here a picture of the front and back of the house - and the last pic is the barn that came with it.  It has been a long and wonderful journey that we promise to share much more fully later on.  

While these pictures look good (and it is), the inside is requiring much more work - as we restore it (as best as we can) to the original look and construction.

Zac's birthday on the firing range

In the following pic's you can see that we had a good time. Sorry that you can not see the faces of the thrower or shooters (that was my decision to stand behind them). Also, I'm not sure if the boys had more fun throwing the skeet or shooting them. Or maybe it was picking up the unbroken ones.

James on the range with Zac throwing.
Daniel stepping hard into the throw.

John on the trigger with Jimmy throwing. (I think James was coaching at this point.)

Daniel taking aim.
John taking another turn with throwing, and Jimmy showing the relaxed atmosphere we all enjoyed that day.

What form!!!

Justin shooting up the alley.

Jimmy showed us how to convert a standard shot shell into a quick - slug action. By cutting as indicated in the pic, the end of the shell does not blow out, but the bulk of the shot stays in and goes with the end of the shell - and that is what acts like a slug.

And finally, some bump'n... to round out the activities.

Zac's Sweet Sixteenth

Let us begin with the grand finale.

The cake! Made to order as usual.

Zac with his brother and Fender...

Zac's 16th Birthday was replete with fun and excitement. In the early afternoon, Zac and his dad joined a few of his friends and did some skeet shooting, of course it was followed up with some bump'n. Then he came home for some cake and present action. I know you've been told that we scale way back on birthdays, but we try to make a few exceptions for significant ones. First, let me tell you that Coy WAS able to join us. Thanks to the technology of Face-Time he was able to watch all the action in real-time. But he was not able to taste the cake :(

Maybe next time Coy!

Zac with his beautiful mother...

Here is Jay with the horse that is staying with us, named Caspian.

Jay is here "lunging" Caspian.