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I had a quick 2 day trip to Vegas for the GNC Franchise Convention at the Wynn Hotel and stayed at the new Encore wing. Swanky hotel, but expensive. Images below.

I returned Tuesday night and left Wednesday morning for a very quick trip to California for mom’s retirement party. My sister, Lisa, and I surprised both my parents with our arrival, as they were not expecting us. Images below that I took, although I will add more in the near future when I receive more pictures from the retirement party. I returned Thursday morning.

Weekend projects around the house included moving into the recently remodeled A-frame section of the house, lots of cleaning (dust, dirt, etc) and digging a 30 foot trench for an additional gas line we plan to run for gas fireplaces that will be installed. That trench took me more than 3 hours, with a few breaks, and was much harder than I thought. Picture below.

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Weekend excitement also included a few cows from the 1000 acre ranch to the north and east of us who managed to bust through an area along the north fence. They did some roaming around our property before ending up on the south meadow. Ron from the ranch came in with his horse and herding dogs, an Australian Shepherd and a Border Collie, to get them back across. I could not catch much video at all of the herding. Instead of coming back into our property, the cattle were herded east from the property south of us and back onto the ranch.

2009_06_21_Home_Loose_Cows_Herding_Dogs from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

A few final pictures below from the weekend.

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Rather than work on the house or around the property, which is all I have been doing lately with my spare time outside of work, I took the evening off and did some easy target practice and biking in between shooting sets. Best of all, I did it on a range that is on the east side of our property. Setup up by the previous owners, the range is in a little ravine and there are large timbers for a backstop. Below is my target results.

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This was standing only, no prone (lieing down) shooting position. I need to do a little work to setup a nice pad from which to shoot both standing and prone. For biking, I just rode around the paths on the property.

Videos below from around the house, including the almost completed fence, Sue driving tractor when we were cleaning up trash around the property, a frog we came across and a few deer.

2009_06_13_Home_Fence from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

2009_06_13_Sue_Tractor from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

2009_06_13_Home_Frog from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

2009_06_08_Home_Deer from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

Included below are pictures of the latest progress with the house. We should be pretty much done this week. We had hoped to start moving in this weekend, but Sue was tied up all weekend with dog training and I was working on the outside fence. Since we have a new puppy arriving very soon, we need an outdoor area that is fenced in and secure for the dogs to run around.

Also below are a collection of pictures we have taken of all the flowers in bloom around the property.