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$1200 dollars for a crib?

November 12, 2010 in Family, Personal, Projects with 0 Comments

When you wait 5 years between kids, it’s inevitable that you will get rid of most, if not all your baby stuff. Thus was the case with Danielle and I. We had no crib, no clothes, no dressers, toys, swings, etc. We were essentially starting ALL OVER AGAIN, which in this day and age is expensive. During one of the baby shopping trips to one my my wife’s favorite stores in the Pearl District, we both found a crib we loved, but it was $1200.00. Me (being a guy and looking for excuses to build something) looked at this crib, its four sides, simple legs, and some slats, and thought to myself “this probably won’t cost me more than $200 dollars to build”. Luck for me, Danielle was all about the idea and gave the go-ahead to see what I could come up with.

I actually won something

November 10, 2010 in Family, Fishing with 2 Comments

So back in September I saw a random tweet come across the wire from Moldy Chum about a contest that Mountain Khakis was holding. The grand prize was 5 days / 4 nights at the Resort at Squaw Creek, plus a TON of swag including two a bunch of awesome clothes from Mountain Khakis, Bugslinger, Keen, Osprey, Sage, Redington, and Scientific Anglers, and of course a half day guided trip with Matt Heron. I generally enter contests like this when I see them, without even thinking I am actually going to win any of them. Well, needless to say about a week later I got an email saying:

Hi Cory,

Are you sitting down? We have exciting news for you – YOU WON the Mountain Khakis & Resort at Squaw Creek Fly Fishing Vacation Sweepstakes today!!!

I was able to take a guest, so I asked my wife to go with me on this adventure to Squaw Valley. We booked the trip for an early weekend in October which Matt claimed was his favorite time to fish the river’s around there, and he wasn’t lying.

In rememberance of C.D. Pratt Jr

June 3, 2010 in Family, Fishing with 0 Comments

This morning we (the crew) pushed off for a trip to scatter some ashes along the north shore of Molokai on the Waipoui. The area was one of grandpa’s favorite places to go and one that I have had the privilege to share with him.
His boat, a 46 foot sampan he designed and built 30 years ago now carries some of his ashes in the anchor post on the bow, now adorned with a lei for the duration of the trip. Thank you grandpa for the memories and the amazing legacy you built and left for us to enjoy.

UO v USC – Hayden’s First Game

November 2, 2009 in Family with 0 Comments

Much to Hayden and I’s surprise, Danielle was able to score some tickets to the big Ducks/Trojan’s game this past weekend. Hayden has never been to a game, and this was such a great game to be a first!

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We made sure to hit up the Ducks store to browse, and in the mean time the marching band, cheerleaders, and players were taking their walk around.

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Hayden got to meet the Duck and give him a big ol’ hug!

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USC arrived with some of their fans to greet them. Hayden thought it was pretty funny because the team busses started rocking back and forth, nearly pulling tires off the ground. Pete Carrol was getting heckled pretty good from the whole student section lined up next to us.

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We got to the our seats early after a lot of walking and standing. Hayden enjoyed watching the warmups and practice. Quite overwhelmed with being there.

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It was a great time, high scoring, loud and crazy through the game. Thanks for the tickets honey! Except I think you’ve turned Hayden into an addict!

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The whole stadium started jingling their keys. Was a cool sound in the stadium.

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And you can’t tell by his face, but I think this may have been his favorite part, getting to stand on the “O” in the middle of the field. We walked around for quite a while checking out the end zone and goal posts.

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John Day Float

June 30, 2009 in Family, Fishing with 1 Comment

This last weekend my wife blessed me with a weekend to float a section of the John Day with my Brother-In-Law, Father-In-Law, and my wife’s cousin. We generally go in late August and do a day trip hiking upstream from Priest Hole in search of 50-70 fish days. We’ve never floated this section, let alone any section of the river, but thought we’d give it a chance before the levels got any lower. A friend of mine at work was nice enough to lend us his Willie drift boat for the float.

We left Bend at about 5:30pm on Friday and started on our 2 hour drive to our camp spot at Priest Hole. With one short stop in Prineville to grab the Krustez mix, we were on our way.

We were met by a 11yr old boy scout camp and loads of other people, but our tent was setup and we were fishing off the bank in no time. I brought the spey with me to try and get a little practice in and found some willing bass on a black pencil popper.

The next morning, we had a great breakfast of egg’s, sausage, pancakes and coffee and we were ready for the fishing that would entail the remainder of our day. We drove up to Twickenham and was on the water by 9:30.

The fish were eager and we were willing, the catching started not 5 minutes into the trip and lasted the remaining 8 hours we were on the water. We couldn’t have asked for a better day, 95 degrees, light wind, lots of laugh’s and lots of fish.

The John Day River is a beautiful one.

We wrapped up the day, shuttled the cars and packed up camp that evening. We were exhausted, the sun really drains you especially when you leave the sunscreen at the tent! A quick stop at Dairy Queen in Prineville, we were finally back home around 10 that night. Whirlwind trip that I’m still feeling today!

There are a few more photo’s at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/corypratt/sets/72157620633391345/