Astronomy

Yesterday, when I went on the Google homepage, I saw that there was supposed to be a meteor shower last night. Since we had recently started astronomy and this was supposed to be the biggest meteor shower of the year, we decided to go swimming late and see what we could see. At nine o'clock last night, we laid out our towels and gazed up at the sky. We saw a couple small ones until about 9:20 when we saw a meteor dart across the sky. It shot almost all the way across the sky. After gasping at it we again waited to see the next one about ten minutes later we saw an even brighter one go all the way across!! We waited ten more minutes and not seeing anymore, we decided to head for bed as we had to get up early to see the sunrise, another part of our astronomy class. If you look closely at this picture, you can see little specks of birds.

So we got up at six o'clock to see the sunrise at 6:13. We walked down to the end of the driveway to see around the neighboring warehouse. We waited 'til about 6:20 and the sun still had not risen. Later I went out behind the warehouse where there were no trees. The sun rose at 6:31 A.M. I had glanced down at the cat that had sat down next to my feet to enjoy the sunrise with me. I gazed upon the mountain that the sun had to conquer, but it was too late. The sun had glided into view and was quickly filling the Valley with its beautiful rays of light. And the camera had died just seconds before. Don't worry we have to do this nine more times- surely one of those times we will be able to capture the essence of the sunrise!

After a recent phone call from Janine, I was inspired to plant some pumpkins!! In between crepe myrtle trees, there are now pumpkin and cantelope seeds!! Nathan had already planted the canteloupe seeds earlier, from seed from the ones that we had planted last year!! I will try to keep you posted on their progress!!

In other news, school starts in exactly one week. We will do school for two weeks then have at least four (maybe five if we can convince mom!) days off for when Janine comes home!! It will be my first year in high school!!

Of Worms and...Eyes

So Lorissa and I were outside today and we decided to look under a round cement thing. We found this four inch long worm. It was moving somewhere fast (for a worm).

It was there with its friend Wiggles. So we had Squiggles and Wiggles. (not named by me)

So then we had a helicopter land in the field behind us to spray. And, because after six years of living out here, we are still not used to such sights as a helicopter spraying, we had the binoculars out. and so then Nate and I decided to try this:

This is the best one; the others were even more blurry and not as close up.

Christmas Break

I received a canvas for Christmas. It already had the circle around the r and the r itself. The other wobbly circles were freehand. The blue should have been a shade or two lighter and the brown more even.

On warm(er) days, my siblings and I go out to play four-square. this generally becomes very competitive and all of us tired and worn out.

We have taken down our Christmas decor. Does that mean that we were de-decorating, or just corating?