Sep. 4, 2008 Laura Ingalls Wilder Homestead
This summer we went on a vacation. On our vacation we went to De Smet, South Dakota.
While we were their we saw the Laura Ingalls Wilder things. My favorite was the Laura Ingalls Wilder Homestead. We got to go see a dugout house, a shanty, and a barn with a Straw Roof! We also got to see kittens, ride a horse and buggy to a schoolhouse, where we attended a old fashioned school session, in an old fashioned school from that time period, and lots of original stuff in it. When we got back from the schoolhouse we went in to a building that we made rope and cornhusk dolls in.
After that we rode on a miniature horse and horse buggy. I had fun seeing where Laura lived, and what her life was like.
 This picture is of Forest and I returning from the buggy ride.
I am riding the horse, Forest is in the buggy with the man.
Macaroni
I have a little pony,
His name is Macaroni,
He trots and trots,
And then he stops!
My funny little pony!
Macaroni (say the word long and slow)
Emily Rose |
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May. 1, 2008 Surprise..... KITTENS!!!
My brother's kitty, CeCe had kittens! Yesterday, I was finishing up my schoolwork and CeCe (who happened to be inside) was lounging on my foot (which happened to be up on the couch with the rest of me), when she let out a cry. I put her in the garage thinking that she might want to get something out there but she came back to the door and asked to come in. I let her in and she jumped up right next to me, started purring, and let out another cry. I started to wonder what was happening. I called Mom and she came over, looked at CeCe, and then said "Quick, CeCe is going to have kittens. Get big plastic bag, one of the old blankets from the garage, and the box with all the old towels. CeCe is going to have kittens. Right here on the couch."
"On the couch?" I gasped. "Uh, Ok!" I got the requested items and then before long Cece started to have kittens. Over the next few hours she gave birth to five kittens in all, right on the couch! They are so cute! Here are some pictures.
This picture is of the first kitten shortly after it was born. I am holding it.
This is CeCe after we thought she had had all her kittens. There are four kittens in this picture.
This picture was taken this morning and it is of the fifth kitten. I have been calling her Abigail. She is the only girl, and also the only one that has white as the main color.
This also shows how tiny the kittens are.
I am glad CeCe had kittens!
Emily Rose |
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Apr. 21, 2008 Butterflies- Their Hatching!
Today the Painted Lady Butterfly chrysalises that we were growing started to hatch!
5 butterflies have hatched and 2 haven't yet. We will have 7 in all when they are all done hatching.
Mama read that they turn themselves into liquid while in the chrysalis and then change into butterflies.
Here is a poem I made up about the butterfly.
Caterpillar
Growing, Ugly
Squirms, Grows, Spins
Coccoons, Larvea, Wings, Eggs
Flaps, Dries, Flies
Pretty, Gracefull
Butterfly
Butterflies take a long time to dry out and even Butter-by who was the first one to hatch and hatched about 8:00 this morning is not flying much yet. The butterflies were in a little cup that had a lid on it this morning but we transfered the butterflies to Forests big huge tarrarium to hatch and live for a little while.
You will probably hear more about the butterflies because not all have hatched yet! It will be an adventure to see all the butterflies hatch!
Emily Rose
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That's right, I said police! We got a good dose of them too! No, We didn't get any tickets or even official warnings. But I guess we look strange enough that they want to see what hippies we are. The first one we met was a sheriff. We were trying to figure out how to get to a highway and had not totally pulled out of the lane of travel. Well, anyways, the sheriff drove over, parked in the ditch, and came over and said "Hey, your car busted or something? Your in the lane of traffic." Daddy answered "Oh, sorry, we didn't notice (starting the car and pulling over)." Mama adds "Can you help us figure out how to get to this highway?" The sheriff looked at the map we had and quickly showed us the way to go.
The second encounter with a policeman wasn't so pleasant.
Forest wasn't wearing his shirt and was kind-of slumping sleepilly in the middle of the car. The middle seat in the back of the car had a lap belt. I had a shoulder belt because I was on the side of the car. We pulled up to an intersection and I glanced out my window. There was a policeman on a police motercycle. I always think of these as "Modern Mounted Police"! I wondered why he kept glancing at us. I said "Daddy, do you know there is a policeman beside us?" Daddy said yes. The red light changed to green. Daddy started to go. When we were half through the intersection I noticed red-and-blue flashing lights. At that moment Mama said "Henry, Your being pulled over by the police" Dad found a side street and pulled over. The Police guy pulled over behind us. I don't think they ever pull over in front of people, do they? He walked up to us with a scrutinizing frown on his face and asked "Do you know why I pulled you over? Dad answered No in a puzzled tone. The policeman then said "That little boy in the back seat, is he strapped in to anything? Daddy, Mama, Forest and I all answered in unison " YES". The policeman squinted and Forest sat up a little straighter so he could see. He then asked "Is it plugged in?" Forest and I lifted it a bit to show him it was. He squinted a tiny bit more and said "It's pretty loose, better tighten it." Forest did and he asked for Dad's drivers license, asked if he had ever had a California drivers license, Dad said no so he asked his little microphone for the status on dad's license then said to fix our right brake light when we got wherever we were going. After that he left.
I think those times where the most exciting times of the trip!
Better go,
Emily Rose |
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Apr. 10, 2008 Drive to Death Valley: The Story of Our Trip #2
I got a comment from Hildegard and she was wondering if the ice chest crunched Forest Zoo and I. I thought that was a good question. The answer is that no, the ice chest didn't crunch Forest and I. The front passenger shoved it against the seat. It is fairly large so it was stuck fairly tightly. If we wanted to get the ice chest out we shoved the seat forward.
CHAPTER 2 Of: Drive to Death Valley
After passing the town that Sir Henry's teacher lived in we drove for a long time. We stopped only for Rest area's and Gas. After a really long day of driving we arrived in Death Valley. It was 12:00 but still quite light outside because it was a very bright full moon that night. We drove into Stovepipe Wells Campground at 12:30 and looked for a camping site for tents but there were none. We found a spare RV spot and put our tent there for the night with plans to move in to a empty tent one that was vacated in the morning. Since it was after 12:00 the silly machine that we payed assumed that it was the next afternoon and gave us a ticket for 2 nights for the price of 1! We finally crawled into our sleeping bags at 1:00 AM and fell asleep....
End of Chapter 2. (I know, it was more of a teaser than a chapter wasn't it?)
Emily Rose
P.S. Go see what Hildegard, Forest Zoo, and I did! |
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Apr. 9, 2008 Drive to Death Valley: The Story of Our Trip
Chapter One: The Early Drive
We left early in the morning of March 20, 2008. It was 6:20 AM, Sir Henry (Daddy) was driving, Elizabeth Joy (Mama) Occupied the front passenger seat while Emily Rose was happily seated in the left passenger seat and Forest Zoo claimed the middle, our large ice chest resided in the right back passenger seat. I now think it a very good thing that policemen do not give out tickets for un-buckled Ice chests because ours did NOT have a seat belt on! As we drove over the mountains that are close to our house you could see little white snow flakes falling.
The snow flakes caused a brief bit of worry but it did not last long as we could most certainly see that it was not sticking. As we got higher we started to see a small amount of snow building up beside the road, but that did not cause much worry. Then the road was starting to look a little bit slippery so Sir Henry slowed down. It got slicker as they started down the other side of the mountains and Sir Henry asked that everyone in the car be quiet so he could concentrate. The car's occupants slowly quieted down and they finally made it to the bottom of the last hill with snow. They Approached a town where Sir Henry's favorite grade school teacher lived. Sir Henry called him on the Ham Radio.
The End of Chapter one.
More Soon!
Emily Rose
P.S. Check out Mama's blog for updates, The entry about Death Valley, And its Wildflowers! |
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Apr. 1, 2008 We Went On A Trip!
Have you been wondering why I haven't posted a blog entry in a while? Well, wonder no more, I was on spring vacation with my family! We went to southern California! It was nice and warm there, Plus we went to the San diego Zoo and Sea World in San diego! I earned a few Junior Ranger badges, But some parks were out of the booklets so they will mail me a booklet . I will order the booklet online from another National Park. I will do a blog entry about my Junior Ranger things soon. Another thing I did was to collect some sand. If I can I will do a blog entry with some pictures and information on my sand collection, by the way, My sand collection is quite small because I just started it this trip but I will show Great Grandpa's too. (that is if I can find it!)
We went through Death Valley, Yosemite, Sequia, Kings Canyon, Mojave And Joshua Tree National Parks or Preserves. Johua Tree National Park was really neat with all its Monzo and white tank Granite. Forest and I climed quite high on some rocks, but that is another blog entry.
Better Go for now,
Emily Rose |
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Jan. 9, 2008 The Day of the Big Wind
On Thursday January 3 I was looking at a calendar that had something interesting for each day in January 2008. On the 4th of January was Banana Pie Day. That was the next day. On Friday morning I got up had my worship etc. By the time I was done Mama had made a delicious smoothie for breakfast. I started drinking it up. Mama was washing dishes in the other room and when I was about half done she said “Go downstairs and fill the bathtub” I was thinking “Why does she want me to do that??” I figured she had a good reason though and went downstairs with my smoothie and book- It might be handy. I turned on the Bathtub, finished slurping the rest up and dug into my book.
About halfway through the chapter the lights went out. I ran to check the tub and it was full. “Perfect timing” thought. After checking the drain to make sure it was up, I charged up the stairs to tell mom it was full. When I got up I found out she had filled several pitchers with water, one big one and two regular sized ones. She had washed the dishes.
The wind was getting stiffer. Dad started getting ready for work. We were standing by the door when all of a sudden I saw my dad's big 120 foot crank up steel amateur radio tower's antenna go sailing out over the power lines, come whipping back like it was being jerked. Next, a different part of the antenna went cart wheeling under the power lines and into the road. The first part of the antenna hit the ground just as I saw the top of the tower crash onto the driveway. All of this happened in about 30 seconds ! I think the antenna came undone and then triggered a chain reaction breaking two guy wires and all this caused the tower to fall.
Daddy looked confused for a few seconds then went shooting out the door like a shotgun and I took off after him with Forest right at my heels. It was a disaster. The neighbors roof was gone, the wind was blowing us away, and dads tower was a Mess! Dad decided to try and move the tower out of the driveway but was interrupted when his big, black, ugly satellite dish (used for satellite ham radio transmissions) started to break apart and blow away. The really heavy duty metal screen mesh that normally nobody could bend was flapping like paper in the strong wind. Dad had to gather pieces that were blowing away. Daddy finally got the tower out of the way. The insurance company will probably pay for a new tower for him.
Mama says that if she had known how strong the wind was she wouldn't have let us go out. It blew my brother over and nearly blew me down. Some people say the wind was blowing over 100 m.p.h. I think they are right.
I will not forget the day of the big wind, January 4, 2008 for a long long time! You can go to Mama's blog and see what she wrote about about the tower mess and look at some pictures here. |
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May. 7, 2007 Waterfall Hike
Day before yesterday we went on a hike. The hike was lots of fun. We hiked down a trail, or should I say leaped down a hill! There were wild onions that we pulled up! They were a little milder and sweeter than green onions and were in bloom. The hillside was covered with them! Then we went down a ways and came to a ledge that we hiked along and then we went down a slopping path. We crossed the stream and hiked on the other side. We went a ways and then we hiked up down and were in the botom of the canyon, right at the base of the falls. It looked 60 feet tall but is really 90 feet tall. It is a seasonal waterfall and doesn't run all year. It is on private property.
Afterwards we went back and played at their log cabin in the forest. They make their electricity with solar panels and a generator.
I thought we were going to another friend's house for supper but we didn't. We were invited to stay and eat supper with them. Supper was good, we had popcorn with olive oil and yeast flakes and salt Of coarse! There was a good fruit salad and apples and almond butter. It was a very tasty supper.
The oldest girl and I had fun swinging and running around. I saw their tree forts and play houses and
played in their room. The other girl and Forest had fun looking for frogs and watching their creatures.
We all had a great time.
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