The other day my mom gave me a choice between putting a book report that I wrote on my blog or putting a report about the French Revolution.  Since the French Revolution is more interesting That is what I decided to do.  So here goes:

     The French Revolution

     The French Revolution started in 1789, claimed thousands of lives before it ended in 1799 with Napolean Bounaparte took control of France.

     In the years leading up to 1789, the lower and middle class people became more and more ungappy with Louis XVI and the Nobles.  Louis XIV had spent a lot of money on his own comfort and Louis XV lost the 7 years war.  This made the country sink into debt and theking heavily taxed the lower and middle class people.  Theis might not have been so bad if the Nobles were taxed but theyeither paid bothing or very little.  At one time Loues XVI tried to make them pay taxes but they refused.

     In America, when the Declaration of Independence was published, the people of France read it and became more interested in rebellion.  Onceagain Loues XVI tried to make the Noblemen pay taxes.  They said they would only pay taxes if all three estates met and voted on the matter.  The first estate was the priests; the second was the Nobles; the third was the middle and lower class people.  Unfortunatly, it did not go well.  The higher estates were more priveleged than the third estate.  Som of the higher people were convinced to vote for taxes but the other Nobles told the king to lock the third estate out.  The third estate then promised not to leave until a new constitution was writen.  The Revolution began.

     Back in Paris, a mob gathered and marched toward the Bastille, an old prison, to capture the gunpowder that was there.  They succeded and then in the following days, invaded the Nobles homes and murdered them.  The king's family was put in a palace and guarded.

     The people drew up a constitution, which the king agreed to.  Other countries were not pleased with this treatmeant of the king.  Prussia said if anyone hurt the king, they would attack to protect him.

     This made the people angrier!  They jumped to the conclusion that the king was telling other countries to attack.  Ther people then dragged the king's family to a dungeon.  People grew more angry after hearing Robespierre's speeches.  On the 21st of January in 1793,  they executed the king.

     After thes, other countries grew worried that the revolution would spread and declared war on France.  The French soldiers were victorious in some batles.  The people formed a Commitee of Public Safety with Robespierre in charge.  The first thing he did was put the people who rebelled to death.  Theis was the Reign of Terror.  Anyone who wasn't for the revolution was put to death.  Thousands of people were sent to the guillotine, a beheading machine.  Soon, the guillotine wasn't fast enough.  Peole were lined up and the shot down with a cannon.  Marie-Antionette was beheaded October 16, 1793.

     The Reign of Terror lasted from April 1793 to July 1794.  It ended with Robespierre, along with Danton and Marat, other leaders of the revolution, all dead.

     A new form of government was formed but it was not stable.  Problems contiued until Napoleon came and took control of the government.

The End

It's been a few days since I last blogged.  I havn't done much.  Oh,  I forgot.  IT SNOWED THREE DAYS AGO!!!  We went sledding all three days.  We had our share of wrecks though.  My brother bent the front of our runner sled after hitting a rock which we managed to fix.  And then he also banged his knee on another rock.  And then the time I fell off the taboggan.  And then...let's just say there were others.  No one was hurt bad.  My biggest wish right now is that the snow will get icy this year.  Icy snow is the most dangerous snow (One time my neighbor and I turned a cartwheel after we hit a bump)  This poses a tough question.  In the words of Shakespeare or someone like that.  "To sled, or not to sled.  That, is the question.  To cartwheel through the air,  or not to cartwheel through the air.  That is the other question."

My, this is bad if I have to catch up with my catching up entries!  Okay.  School.  We finished last years school and started again!  I have about 70 days in so far.  We started co-op a couple weeks ago and now we're on Thanksgiving/Christmas break.  In case you don't know what that is, let me refresh your memory if you read other parts of my blog and forgot.  A few weeks before it starts, a paper comes in the mail with classes that you can take.  You choose your classes and then on the day that you go there, you get to do your classes.  The classes that I pick were Art, Civics, and Orienteering.  Oh, by the way, if you like to play Mad Scientist, my science book helped me figure out a way to do that.  This is waht you do.

Ingredients:

• purple cabbage
• distilled water
• vinegar
• baking soda
• saucepan
• a small glass
• measuring cup

First, you rinse out the saucepan, the small glass, and the measuring cup with distilled water.  Second, put a few leaves of purple cabbage in the saucepan and put 2 cups of distilled water in it.  Put it on the stove and boil it for a few minutes.  After its done boiling, pour some into the small glass and add some vinegar until it turns from purple to pinkish red.  Then get a teaspoon or two of baking soda and dump it in the vinegar/cabbage misture.

WARNING:  Do this outside, as it is messy!  Pretty cool, isn't it?

We also had a vacation back in September.  We went to Niagara Falls.  It is big.  It is huge.  It is Ginormous (pronounced JI-nor-mis).

Some pictures.

Horseshoe Falls

Horseshoe Falls at night.

American Falls.

We left about 5 in the morning, got there around lunch.  We first went down and looked at the Falls and then we were going to go on the Maid-of-the-Mist (a boat that goes in the mist from them) but it was closed.  The second day went on the African Safari.  It had a drive through where you could watch African animals that wern't caged in from your car.  We ended up staying at someone's house for the night and Sunday morning we left.  On the way home we went to the Welland Canal.  We watched the big 700 ft. ships going through lock thingies.  One end would let the ship in and close.  Then it would pump water in until it was at the next level and then let the ship out again.  We got home at midnight.

Then in October came my long awaited Birthday present.  It was actually closer to my 14th birthday than my 13th.  My dad took me to a NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway.  Once again, we left about ive in the morning but we got there around 10:30.  More pictures.

Me and my dad beside Jimmie Johnson's show car.

Jimmie Johnson won.

Finally we are up to date.  How was everyone's Thanksgiving?  We got off school Thanksgiving and Friday, and now, back to work.  Anyway I should go.  See ya!

Hello!  I'm finally back after ignoring this for the whole summer and if you think I'm copying the title you're exactly right!  Now, let's get down to business.

The first thing is Gloria (my baby sister, if you'll remember).  She gained about 6 pounds and is the cutest thing on earth.  She is eating solids (mainly carrots and prunes), is getting a tooth and absolutely has  to have every piece of dirt on the floor.

This is Gloria then:

And now:

She grew a lot!  This is also my other sister, Emily (looking rather goofy), and YES, that is a leaf in Gloria's mouth!

That's it for now because I have to go to bed.

Hello.  I didn't feel like blogging recently.  Most of the time I didn't do much of anything because I had a bike crash and lacerated my liver.  We were at a family retreat in the mountains.  We got there in the evening, had a snack and went to bed.  The next morning, I went down below and the kids were going back up to the hotel to arm wrestle.  One of my friends stayed behind and asked if I wanted to race on our bikes.  We were on the first lap when Justin and his friend came down and caused my friend to swerve (he was in front of me) and I came flying into him.  I remember the handelbar getting pushed in to my stomach and crashing.  I got a Grade III lacerated liver and he sustained minor injuries (skinned knee).  I was in the hospital for 3-4 days.  I couldn't much for 8 weeks.  So anyway that was at the beginning of August.  I haven't blogged since but since I'm blogging now I've blogged since. 

Hello. Today we played outside and dug potatoes. For supper we had red potatoes. Speaking of vegetables, did anyone ever here of yellow green beans? I guess they aren't really green beans if there yellow but they're supposed to be the same as green beans. We grew some in our garden this year.

We also went to yard sales today. We got a bunch of clothes but I think the best thing was a brand-new game called Cranium. I love board games.

I hope my mom gets here soon so we can read abook called Little Britches.

Hello. Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. How was everyone's Forth of July? We got really close to where they launched the fireworks. Some of them were almost right overhead.

And now, once again it is time for, (bum-ba-da-da), the (late) Monday Menu! Today we are having,(bum-ba-da-da), chicken, sweet corn, cake and, (bum-ba-da-da), Peaches! (Bum-ba-da-da, bum-ba-da-da), that's enough bum-ba-da-da's. Bum-ba-da-da. I said enough! Thank-You, on with our Menu

Get 1 whole chicken and put it in a crockpot with spices and cook all day.

Bum-ba-d... Thought you could sneak one in didn't you?

WENDY'S WHACKY CAKE

3 c. flour

2 c. sugar

6 T. cocoa

2 T. vanilla

3/4 c. oil

2 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

2 T. vinegar

2 c. cold water OR

1 c. water

1 c. coffee

Mix all ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 min.

My Mom usually uses Sucanat (a natural sugar) and whole wheat flour.

I hope I can post some Mississippi pictures soon.

I'm hungry! Mom says we'll eat at 12 but I wish we could eat now. She's making a dress for the March to Destiny tomorrow. The March to Destiny is a whole bunch of Civil war re-enacters that get together and do a re-enactment of what life was like during the Civil war. It's in Shippensburg so if anyone lives near there they can come. It starts tomorrow, sometime in the morning.

I'm trying to write a song for the piano. I only have the first couple measures in.

I got back from Mississippi on Sunday. On the way home I slept about 5 hours. Did anybody know it starts to get light between 5:00 and 5:30 in the morning?

Maybe Mom will get my lunch now that she's finished.

Hello from Mississippi!!  This week me and my Dad are down here in Mississippi to help rebuild damage from Hurricane Katrina.  We are working on a house in Waveland,  1-2 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.  The damage here is really bad.  I think the flood levels reached about 30 feet in our area.  There's tons of junk just laying on ground.

Down here, the temperature is 80-90 degrees most of the time.  That's very hot when at the job site the coolest place is in the shade.  My Mom and brother's and sister went to an Ice Cream social and they had to wear jackets!

Tonight we had a Rook Tornament.  At the job site, me and my friend made a trophy for the winner.  It said:  Mississippi

                                                 June 14, 2006

                                                 ROOK Champion: 

A girl named Ashlyn won .We put her name on it.  I'm surprised she won because another guy is really, really good at it.  I think I'm done now.  I want to go see what everyone else is doing .

By the way, does anyone else like Rook?