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  • Audio Slalom – Learning To Compete

    If watching this video does not get you excited about learning how to compete in Audio Slalom, maybe you should try a different sport. Let me give a huge shoutout to my daughter, Taylor, for editing this exciting footage from the 2019 IWWF World Disabled Waterski Championships. She also added audio description, closed captions, and…

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  • Making Friends And Getting The Gear

    This post provides contact information for the people who assisted and the vendors used as I gathered the gear needed to allow me to start hunting as a totally blind man. Once again I found that as with many challenges, “making the right connections and using the correct technology can turn something you did not…

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  • The Eyes Free Sports Podcast

    While Wendy and I were in Florida attending Grace’s Puppy Raiser Reunion, we had the opportunity to have lunch with Greg Lindberg, the host of The Eyes Free Sports Podcast. To learn more about Greg, check out Episode 100. I shared how the first podcast I listened to featured Guiding Eyes Outdoors, and thank Greg…

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  • You Got This Grace

    The entire Royal Family was able to attend Grace’s Puppy Raiser Reunion and meet Beth, Grace’s forever person. This was an extra special reunion as it was the first time all Royal Family members were able to attend in person. Grace is the fourth puppy wendy has raised for Southeastern Guide Dogs and the third…

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  • Successful Whitetail Doe Hunt

    The photo above is me with the second whitetail doe my hunting companion, Kirk Musgrove, and I harvested between 3:00 and 5:00 pm on January 15, 2024 during an extended doe hunting season in Kerr County, Texas. The Winchester XPR 300 Win Mag purchased from Helotes Tactical and the Accufire Noctis V1 sight are included…

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  • ready wrestle

    Making this post, I find myself with fond memories and a sad heart as I just learned my high school wrestling coach recently passed away. Back in seventh grade, while still living in Lincoln, I started to Wrestle. As there were no fast-moving balls involved in the sport, wrestling would become the first sport I…

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  • The Royal Family NICU Christmas Letter

    On the Tuesday before Christmas, we went back to visit Memorial Hermann’s NICU. We simply planned to drop off the NICU Christmas Letter, which we are holding in the above picture and the text is provided below. A 23-year veteran nurse who remembered us, inquired about why we did not have a dog. Since we…

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  • NICU Birth Weight Math Challenge

    I hope you did not give up on us. Things got a bit busy; therefore, we missed posting on two Sundays. As promised a couple of weeks ago, there will be several suggested donation amounts calculated below based on Eric’s approximate birth weight of three pounds. Specifically, you might recall from the Royal Family Birth…

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  • Smile Sucker, I mean Sika

    On the November hunt I was armed only with my finger. Much gear has been acquired and I am starting to feel like a real hunter. My hunting companion, Kirk Musgrove, and I have not been able to get to the range to practice or fine-tune sighting in my rifle; therefore,  on this hunt, we…

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  • Champion Parents

    Okay, Wendy’s last musical performance was just a few years ago, back in high school. Further, Mike never claimed to be able to sing like Stevie Wander or Ray Charles. However, last Saturday night to celebrate Taylor’s 21st birthday, the Taylor and Eric’s Champion Parents dynamic duet made their career launching debut on the karaoke…

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