Kevin M. » Adventures http://kpont.com The Blog Of My Adventures, Contemplations and Documentations Mon, 05 May 2008 15:35:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 I’m Reading… http://kpont.com/102/im-reading-6/ http://kpont.com/102/im-reading-6/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:09:04 +0000 kmpierpont http://kpont.com/2008/02/im-reading-6/ Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure By Richard Byrd - A great book by Admiral Byrd and his lonely stay in the Antarctic. It makes 5 degrees Fahrenheit sound warm.]]> http://kpont.com/102/im-reading-6/feed/ 0 My Bow and Arrow http://kpont.com/90/my-bow-and-arrow/ http://kpont.com/90/my-bow-and-arrow/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:34:35 +0000 kmpierpont http://kpont.com/2007/04/my-bow-and-arrow/ For about two or three years I have wanted to make a bow but was not sure that I could. I didn’t know how to do it or what was needed. A couple of months ago, after some research on the Internet and reading a few books from the library on the subject I decided to try making one. I made the bow out of a hickory board, being a good, durable wood for the task and something I could buy locally. This is the finished product along with an arrow I made. It pulls 50# @ 29″, is 66″ nock to nock and has about 2 1/2″ of set. I twisted a string from dracon B-50 (bow string material) and stitched a piece of leather around the handle.

Bow and arrow

There are a couple more photos here.

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Zack Attack.

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flags at the kalamazoo air zoo

]]> http://kpont.com/78/air-zoo/feed/ 1 Up In The Air http://kpont.com/41/up-in-the-air/ http://kpont.com/41/up-in-the-air/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:16:14 +0000 kmpierpont http://kpont.com/2006/11/up-in-the-air/ How often do you get free rides to the tops of the trees? My brothers, sister and I got a free ride up towards the skies today at the courtesy of the “lumberjacks” that were cutting down some of our neighbor’s trees. Here are some pictures of the ride. More pictures here.

The truck
The Bucket Truck.

In the bucket

My bro Nicholas in the bucket.

Josiah

My brother Josiah.

Hello done there!

Hello Down There!

Zoomed In

Zoomed in.

The View

The awesome view from the bucket.

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