Deer November 5, 2007
Posted by smartblondece in Animals, Friends, Navy, exercise, school.add a comment
The other night Kristin and I went out for a drive after working out. This ended up in us sitting up on Timberhill staring out at Corvallis. We were sitting there chatting when all of a sudden Kristin says, “Is there an animal out there?”
We turn on the head lights and right there, not 15 feet from us is this doe. She stares at us for a second and then walks down the hill. We were thinking that was pretty cool. We went back to talking until I saw the silhouette of antlers. “I think there’s a buck out there!”
Sure enough there was a big four point buck right where the doe had been. He followed her down the hill and we saw them again as they walked under the motion sensor lights of the house down below us. It was pretty cool.
We started working out again. Well, we only went once, on Saturday, but it was enough to get my motivation going.
On Thursday I was in Owen and I saw a flier for a navy program. I looked at it and I think I may have found something I would like to do. I’m a five year student. My family only will pay through my 4th year. The Navy Civil Engineering Corps has a scholarship that will pay E-3 pay scale (about $2000/month) while I’m in school, then after I will serve 4 years with the CEC. I would be an officer. 70% are stationed in the states, the other bases are Italy and Spain (!). The work is mostly manager level. This is what I want to do. And if the Navy is what gets me there then wonderful! I’m beginning to look at the application process. I have to get a hold of the guy in charge of the scholarship for this area.
