**Cherry Blossoms**



About Me:

This is my blog,where I post about life,the animals I love with all my heart,and my future plans. I post on Tuesday's and Friday's on just about anything. I was homeschooled until 11th grade then I was able to graduate 2 years early and enter college.God willing I plan on becoming a Animal Conservationist with my own Zoo. My blog name is CherryBlossoms because I just love those trees so much! :) Please Enjoy and leave comments :)

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"If we can touch people about wildlife, then they want to save it. Share my wildlife with me. Because human's want to save things that they love"..

- Steve Irwin

Recent Posts:

Update- Prescott,Az Pt1
Keepers of the Wild 2009!
Oh How Sweet the sound......
Shooting/ Scrapbooking/ (and just for the S theme) Sign Language
Croc Toria's Contest

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My Mom's Blog
McKinley Family Website
My brother Brandon's Blog
My Mom's Devotion Blog


"It does not matter..."

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of a house I lived in, what my bank account was,or the car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of animals and the creatures on this earth."
-Unknown Aunthor

My Major

You should be a Biology major! You are passionate about the sciences, and you enjoy studying cell growth and evolutionary concepts which enable living organisms to survive. Pursue that!

Biology 92%
Dance 75%
Anthropology 67%
Philosophy 67%
Sociology 67%
Theater 58%
English 50%
Liguistics 50%
Engineering 42%
Psychology 42%
Journalism 42%
Art 42%
Mathematics 25%
Chemistry 25%
What's you Major?

Books I am Writing:

The Exchange Student
Montana Skies
The Rightful Heir
Africa's Journey

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My Misson through Blogging and Life:

Educate
Connect
Reach Out
Conserve
Act
Respond
Protect

"My Job,My Mission,The reason I have been put onto this planet is to protect widlife...." -Steve Irwin



Conservation Video's

Animal Conservationists

The Next Generation:


Brandon, 6, with snakes

Bella,1 year, on croc


"We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit."
-Henry Ward Beecher

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Attempting a Template

Animal Conservation:

Reach Out.Act.Respond
Wildlife Warriors
International Croc Rescue
Tiger Conservation
Cheetah Conservation
Save the Japanese Dolphins
Polar Bear SOS
Snow Leopard Trust
Save the Seals
Wildlife Direct
NRDC Action: Wildlife
Conservation Connection Through PDZA
Washington Waterfowl Association
Lewa Kenya Animal Preserve


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My Favorite Post's


"Heart of a Lioness"
Zoo time!
My special time with a Monkey Little Green Frog
Mitchell's Cavern Part Deux
Mitchell's Cavern Part Ichi
Rock Climbing in a skirt technique
Cornfest 2007
A trip to a Horse Rescue Shelter
My Hero, Steve Irwin
Mnt Rainier, WA
Sheep!!
Amazing Animal Footage
Mischiveious Racoon
Animal Slideshow
Tribute to our Troops video
Do you remember our troops?

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I don't - I do

Posted on Oct. 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM in My Life

Let's make a few things clear about me because I don't like being called crazy ;)

I don't like drama
I don't like people who create drama
I don't like people who call themselves American's but don't support our country's decisions
I don't support abortion
I don't support child neglect (who does?)
I don't support hunting (get it through your head)
I don't support/agree with TAXIDERMY
I don't support wearing of leather, fur, or a dead animal around someone's neck
I don't support the  use of dead animal's as rugs!
I don't support the eating of non-farm raised animals (goes back to hunting)
I don't support Veganism
I don't support a roadside circus, they abuse their animals
I don't support keeping an exotic animal as a pet
I don't support cosmetic's tested on animals, neither do I where/use them (shampoo, makeup etc...)
I don't support whaling, or seal hunting
I don't support puppy mills


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I do support our President (no matter who they are because we are suppose to support/respect authority)
I do support adoption
I do support the KJV
I do support a college education
I do support alternative testing
I do support zoo's, if they animals are proven to be well taken care of and are happy.
I do support no-kill animal shelters
I do support the ASPCA
I do support Organic living
I do support spaying and neutering of shelter pets
I do support animal conservation
I do support world conservation

There is alot I don't support and although I don't have as much 'I do's" I basically support the anti of everything I don't support, does that make sense?

Julia


Oh I will not be responding to negative comments :) Thank you very much! Reminder, this is my blog not yours. :)

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Loretta N.

Posted on Sep. 19, 2008 at 3:57 PM in My Life


Monday, September 15th, just a normal day at work, ringing up purchases, handing customers their purchases, approving credit cards, having people telling us to [bleep] off, etc, just the typical day at work with the angry customers. One thing we also get alot are customers who are high, strung-out-beyond-reach-of-reality high! (We have even had customers who have gone into the fitting room and snort their cocaine or shoot some heroin. Well on monday I had such a customer. She had gone into the fitting rooms and shot herself some heroin. She came out with nothing (went in with nothing I might add) and was soooo strung out. I watched her, with no proof and logical reason we could not have asked her to leave, long story short she had gone into the baby section and gathered up a whole bunch of stuff to buy. She also went into the womens section for a few things.

As I started to ring her up she put both elbows on the counter and started laughing at nothing, then she started twisting her arms all around and laid down on the counter, etc. I just ignored her actions and continued to talk to her. She pulled out a check book and I mentioned to her about how our check processing works, she said "fine, like walmart." I asked for her ID, and she began looking in her check book, purse, pocket, jacket saying "I hope I didn't leave it in the car", but she eventually found 5 minutes later in the first spot that she had looked, which I didn't understand why she had overlooked looking at her ID. Probably the drugs, I thought. She handed me her ID and the ID and the check name, address,etc all matched and I processed the check and scanned her ID and everthing went through fine and she left with no problems, well she more like stumbled away dizzly.

I left soon after that to head on home, as me and Mom are heading to the post office BEFORE we went home I had mentioned this crazy girl to mom and I said I kept feeling like something bad was going to happen, I just had a bad feeling about her and such. Get home 20 minutes later and there is a message on the phone from my boss Jacque, telling me I need to call her right away. So I did. Jacque starts asking me If I had processed a check earlier that day, and I said yeah I processed two of them, and she says "two?!" I go yeah, one from a little old lady and another from a younger girl. Jacque says "the check was fake and the police had showed up to the work with the customer in custody and her boyfriend." I asked if she had blonde hair (drug girl) and she said yes. I said 'Yeah I remember processing her check because she was very high. Jacque again explained the check was fake and so was her ID. Remember me mentioning she had gathered a whole bunch of stuff from baby's and women's? Well her total was $145.19 which was purches with a fake check. All-in-all Jacque told me the investigating police officer wanted to talk to me and That i needed to call him. So I quickly hung up and told mom and then called the police. Eventually I left I message for the officer and he called me back 4 hours later and asked me do I remember a customer writing a check and I said yes, he said her name was Loretta N****Z (I don't know who's Identity it is so I won't say the last name) and I said yes I remember her because she was very high. He laughed and said yeah she is. He also told me her real name was Nicole C******* and that she had done this before but they never caught her. He asked when I worked next so I could meet with him and fill out a statement. He never showed up at GAP when he said he would and he never got my statement (not my problem). I don't think he needs it so thats why he didn't call or come but if he does I have to meet with him and fill one out.

I felt soooooooooooooooooooooo horrible and so embarrassed that this *druggie* had scammed me cold! Meanie bo beanie! She's in Jail now, we have our merchandise back, and I still need to fill out a statement. I wonder when this will happen again, I hope not soon.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time! (BTW, That's my dad in the picture, he is not really in jail, although you can tell already,)

-Julia

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Conservation 101- The Legacy of Steve Irwin

Posted on Sep. 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM in Conservation 101

 

 Today, of all days, is a grim reminder that the world is without the greatest Wildlife Warrior ever. Sept. 4th, 2006, Steve Irwin was tragically killed when a sting ray barb pierced his heart. My heart wishese he was still alive saving wildlife. I want to see NEW Episodes of Croc Hunter, with his determination and enthusiasm to save wildlife. My ehart aches for his family who I know miss him more than I do. He is my hero, my idol. I want to do everything he did. I want to save wildlife. I want to stand up for whats right. I want to be something in the world of animals.

But I know I cannot possibly be him and do everything he did for wildlife. But I want to hope. I want to know that my dream is not out of reach. You all must think I am silly, but how would you feel if your idol died suddenly? You would be crushed to, and you would grieve for years later. Nobody understands how important I saw him as. There are a few people I know who have lost a loved one, and to me I loved Steve and everything about him, I saw him as a distant uncle. I would watch his show regularly and would always cheer along whenever he caught a snake or a croc. I do not know if he was saved or not, or if he is in heaven or hell. I don't want to think about it. I just hope at some point in his life he was presented with the gospel and maybe I will get to finally meet him in heaven. I can hope can't I? You can never loose hope, not one inch lost.

His legacy of being a wildlife warrior will continue forever.  His Australia Zoo in beerwah, Australia, will forever be an attraction throughout the world. I AM going there someday. His love of crocodiles told the world that they are not mean,ugly creature's but they are magnificient and poweful.  He also was able to purchase Australian land that is now a habitat for crocodiles and everything else to survive in, however that land in under threat of strip mining. I signed  a petition the other day to help save the land in honour of Steve. Go here to help Save Steve's Place.

I didn't know what I was going to do for today's post, so I guess rambling on was good enough. I have this song on my IPod, it's called 'Goodbye Crocodile Hunter' and whenever i need a good dose of crying I listen to this song over and over and over again. I also have a VCR tape (yes they still exsist) full of Crocodile Hunter episodes and I watch that along with listening to the music. Sometimes I think he is still alive and is in the outback of Austalia, hiding from the world, but thats just my imagination. Here are the lyrics to 'Goodbye Crocodile Hunter'


1. Wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
Doin' what he'd do
You'd better duck for cover
Cos Steve is comin' through

2. Crazy as a cut snake
Bold as any man
He'd dive onto a crocodile
Hold spiders in his hand
Dodge a deadly brown snake
With big-eyed, "Holy Smoke!"
You could like him
You could loathe him
But you couldn't miss the bloke

CHORUS
And wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
With his heart upon his sleeve
Goodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell Steve

3. He loved those deadly creatures
He gave the bush his all
The nastier the moment
The more he had a ball
1000 miles a minute
A showman to the core
He'd take a bit of bark off
And keep comin' back for more...

CHORUS
And wasn't he a beauty
Crikey what a gem
A dinkum Aussie treasure
A khaki larrakin
Throwin' it all out there
With his heart upon his sleeve
Goodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell SteveGoodbye
Crocodile Hunter
Farewell Steve
Farewell Steve

 


It hit's home for me.

-Julia

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Life is short, Life is sweet, I want something good to eat!

Posted on Aug. 21, 2008 at 10:48 PM in My Life

Here are some pics of my precious niece "TinyBel" (Isabel)

You cannot tell me she isn't the prettiest baby around! :)

Lately, I have had NO time to blog, as you can probably already tell. I know I said I would post about my 17th birthday but I don';t really want to :) Nothing special happened there just gained another year in life. I have been working on the past two months of Conservation 101. I missed May and June. I have August saved and am working on it. Just not diligently ;)

Alot has been going on lately. I decide I am going to vent in this post. Lately, I have become the target of one girls hatred (a girl at my work). She decided that because of something that happened in the past she is going to hate me because of it. Might I add the fact that I did absolutely nothing wrong except defend a close friend. I was accused of saying something mean to the girl and I was called names which shall not be repeated on the blog-o-sphere. Why do people have to be so utterly ridiculous? I don't understand people sometimes.  Anyway today she decided to "attack" me the best way that she possibly could. She was rude and arogant towards me. She almost refused to work with me today at work. My boss assigned me to a project that SHE wanted and so she decided to make a big stink about it and go complain to my boss that she didn't think it was fair that she was told she was going to do it and now I was. Immature!!!!! I really didn't care whether or not. I didn't even want to be at work but I was asked to come in to replace someone who called out.  Anyway, LO and Behold she got her wish, to do the stupid project and make me do the "low-on-the-totem-pole" job. Oh and she decided to rub it in my face that she got what she wanted by telling me herself. I swear she was talking down to me. I smiled and said ok thats fine, and walked off. I really did not want to participate in her childish "nana nana boo boo" game.  For the rest of the day I stayed my distance, yet whenever she was around I killed her with kindness.

College starts back up on Monday, with my first class being my American Sign Language class. I am very excited to be starting that class. I used to know alot of sign language, now I only know my ABC's in sign language ;) Also Tuesdays and Thursday I am at school all day for my English 102 class, and my Pre-Algebra class. Wednesday afternoon I have my US History class, another one I am excited about. I have always loved history :) Then IMMEDIATELY following my History class is my second American Sign Language class of the week. I think I have everything I need for school. I hope I do :)

Anyway, It's late and I am extremely tired from working an almost 30 hour week and it's only Thursday :( NIghty NIght all.

Love
Julia

 

OH I forgot to mention, My laptop is not working and I cannot get at my email so please leave comments or send me a PM until I get my email back working :)

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Conservation 101

Posted on Aug. 8, 2008 at 9:01 PM in Conservation 101

August '08


Conservation 101 is brought to you from the minds of Julia (Cherryblossoms) and Toria (Croctoria)


Recycling is fun, Recycling 101!

 

Recycling is good for the environment. By redirecting waste to serve as raw materials for industry, recycling provides a number of important benefits:

 
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Reducing pollution and conserving  natural resources.

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Saving energy by reducing the need to extract and process "virgin" raw materials to manufacture new products.

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Reducing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and     nitrous oxide.

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Stimulating the development of greener technologies.

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Avoiding the cost of waste disposal in landfills and incinerators.

 

Every ton of paper recycled saves up to 17 trees (Source:  Planet Pals)
 

Recycled paper requires 50 percent less energy, and up to 75 per cent less water than making it from virgin fiber. (Recycling Project)

This is just a section of knowlegable information on recycling that I took from a website I know of. (Credit to them). Our family recycles, and it helps that locally recycling pop cans can give you money. Which always helps. However, recently I was asked to take over the recycling project at my work place (Gap). At Gap we recycle plastic bottles, cardboard, plastic bags, and pop cans! But there are so many other things you can recycle. Our family recycles pop cans, plastic bottles, sometimes cardboard, and pop cans! (Shocking ;) ) Here is a list of things you can recycle:

  • glass bottles
  • steel cans (pet food, veggies, tuna, soup, etc.)
  • plastic soda bottles
  • glass jars and bottles
  • plastic milk jugs
  • newspapers
  • magazines
  • phone books
  • white paper
  • cardboard
  • brown paper bag
  • plastic grocery bags
  • rechargeable batteries

    It is best to use a garbage can as your recycling bin, that way your not using plastic bags. However i must admit and be truthful that we use plastic bags and end up recycling them, because we still need to get the recycling bins :)


    Since this post is severly late in being posted I am going to stop the ranting here  and work on another month's Conservation 101 that is seriously behind :)

    -Julia

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