While we were cleaning out the garage, Corwin saw my paintball markers. Ever since, he bugs me on and off about shooting them. So this week, my boss invited some of us out to his place to shoot some skeet. He has 4 kids of his own so I thought I’d bring Corwin along and some paintball equipment. Corwin was very excited about this. He’s shot a marker before, a couple of years ago, but he doesn’t remember and he just pulled the trigger while Dad held and aimed.
The day before the outing, Mom planted 170 bulbs. She went out at 12:30 and got back around 4:15 having spent the entire time planting bulbs. She was in a good mood then but after a couple of hours she was feeling a wee bit stiff. After getting a head cold over night as well, she wasn’t in the best of shape for an outing so we left her behind with Charles.
That morning Corwin couldn’t wait to go. After the tenth time he asked me if it was time to go, I told him that we would go at noon, when the little hand pointed straight up. Corwin immediately put his coat on and started watch the clock. An hour later, at 11:30 the little hand was vertical enough for Corwin, so we set out.
After we arrived I got the paintball stuff set up. We had 500 paintballs for ammunition, my Blazer, a couple of automags and a Tipman 68 Carbine. For various reasons we could only have two markers working at a time but the kids kept up a steady stream of fire. There’s a tree that looks leperous now with a huge number of yellow splotches. A number of other trees were visually enhanced as well. The kids splooged balls in every marker they shot, but Corwin had a lot of fun is what Dad told himself a lot as he was cleaning up later. We used up the 500 paintballs in about 15 minutes, but Corwin had a lot of fun I told myself. I’m sure we’ll be doing some more of that when it gets warmer, because Corwin will have a lot of fun.