JJ and I both can’t believe that a month has already passed by. When we first decided to visit my grandparents before settling in Hattiesburg, I thought that a month may be too long but it turned out to be a little bit too short. I have not had enough time to do all that I really wanted to do. My grandfather and I did get most of the work we planned to do done but I really wish that we would have spent more time arguing politics. He loves it even when I get him riled up.
I know that we will be back as soon as possible but as my grandparents get older I want to spend as much time with them as possible. Unfortunately, jobs and studies are calling our names!

JJ wearing Poppa’s hat!

My turn with the hat.

Saying goodbye to Socks!

JJ and I are in the process of packing all of our things to head back to Mississippi. We will leave on Wednesday morning and head to Little Rock via Memphis. We really need to stock up on some Korean food so we are going to hit up an Asian market in Memphis. We will then go on to my Aunt’s house in Little Rock. This will be my first time to visit her in Little Rock and we are really looking forward to the trip. We are only staying two nights but we will be going to the horse track on Thursday and are really excited about getting to see the races. We will then go on back to Hattiesburg and real life will start up. I will begin the job search and work on getting into grad school.

The last few days have been good for photo opportunities.

I have been trying to get this shot all month.

We had quite the snow.

My grandmother is great. She was so excited about the snow.

JJ and Grammy

Snow!!!!

We are still in Kentucky and are here for at least another few days. The plan is to head to Little Rock on Wednesday to spend a couple of days with my aunt and then back to Hattiesburg,MS by Friday. We are in the middle of a huge snow storm here in Kentucky. We were supposed to get snow last night but it really didn’t start until about noon today. We have gotten a few inches already and are expecting about 8-10 inches total. Today was a pretty good day for photos. Here are a few from today:

Downy Woodpecker

Redhead and Fruitloops

He let me get a couple of shots.

Grammy, JJ and Sheeba

Socks was not that into the snow.

Cutie

This guy loves this tree in my grandparent's yard.

I had dinner with the grandparents tonight……………The Saints are going to the Super Bowl…..Hell has frozen over!!!! I have been waiting for a long time for this.

As you can see, we had some luck with our deer cam. We put out a bunch of corn and they seemed to enjoy it. We actually have been having to feed them twice a day. There are a couple of does that have been eating all the corn during the day and then letting the bucks have the crumbs at night. I started putting out most of the corn right before dark. The camera is actually set up about 30 yards from the house. I still can’t believe that the bigger deer have gotten this close to the house! We have been experimenting with moving the camera around for the perfect shot. I am sure that we will continue to try to capture some more images. There is a 10 point around here that I really want to get a shot of.

Can you see the coon?

This one appears to be a singer!

These two have eaten all of corn.

The picture really does not have that much to do with studying Korean except this is the new background for my twitter page which has been my new way to study Korean. I found TWIPL which is a Korean application to post photos on Twitter. I commented on a couple of photos in Korean and exchanged a couple messages with Korean Twitter users. I also started posting a few photos on TWIPL myself. For the last few days a few of my posts have been commented on by Korean speakers and I have been trying to post as much as I can in Korean. I have been pretty proud of the amount of their replies that I understand but still am having to use my dictionary, Google translator and JJ way too much for answering messages in Korean. I have started back with my flash card system and already have about 100 new words to learn. I also am back using the Seogang Series of text books. I am following about 10 Koreans on Twitter and hopefully will begin to understand more and more of their messages without assistance.

Deer Cam
I put out a wildlife camera a few days ago. The first few nights the camera was set up away from the house in the middle of the woods. We had no luck so my grandfather and I bought some corn and moved the camera closer to the house. We had seen some deer tracks and hoped for the best. We did get some photos but are having some problems with the flash firing way too early or way too late. We had given thought to opening the machine and attempting to fix it but decided that it would be way too advanced for us to do it. I will post more over our results tomorrow! I will say that all of our corn was gone and today I had to feed them twice.

Deer Camera with corn as bait

You can see the quality is very low...Not even a megapixel

These two does ate all my corn.

JJ and I made it to 11am mass today. We picked up Billie who came out to the house for lunch. After lunch we watched Brett Favre lead the Vikings to victory. After the game I took Billie on a sight-seeing tour of the area. We came across a bunch of deer, a hawk, an eagle and an unhappy cow. It was great to spend some time with him and talk about future plans and school. My grandparents have already said that they are gonna kidnap him from church and make him come out and eat lunch again.

This girl was not too happy to pose for me.

I was a little too slow to catch this buck.

Sweet Doe

JJ and the unfriendly dog.

We had a nice second week in Kentucky. On Wednesday we took off to Metropolis to visit Harrah’s Casino. We stayed here for a couple lost a few bucks, had lunch, and came back. I have been going out on my walks everyday trying to get back in shape and grab some photos.

Today we stayed around the house and watched the Saints destroy the Cardinals. I ordered JJ and I a couple shirts that benefit the city of New Orleans from Louisiana Online Mall. They are supposed to be delivered before next week’s game. Tomorrow is church and then hopefully will watch the Vikings beat the Cowboys.(Sorry Seth)

Here are some photos from the past couple of days.

Even Sheeba likes Fat Tire.

This guy flew right by me when I was taking a break on my hike.

I spent some time in front of the bird feeder too.

Maybe a target?

Experimenting with my strobe set up near the bird feeder..Gotta try this again.