1. We had three snow days of sledding.
2. I have two loose teeth.
3. A family from Hungary moved onto campus with two boys that are near my and Paul's ages.
4. I finished my 2nd grade workbooks and I get to go to Oberweis for ice cream tonight.
5. I started having piano lessons. I like playing the piano.
6. We made a tower out of blocks that is taller than Daddy.
7. We made forts in the woods with our friends.
8. The pond froze and we played fox & geese on it. It was fun.
9. I got a Webkinz that is a tiger. I named him Tigy.
10. We got a new computer and a laptop for Christmas.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Words From Madeleine
Dear blog readers, this letter is from an imaginary person to another imaginary person. If you see someone you know in it, then you are hallucinating or something (lol). I had to write it for my weekly communication class and had to add certain adverbs, adjectives, sentence openers, etc.. So if anything sounds forced, it was not my choice but the will of another (my teacher). Without further ado, let the letter be read!
Dearest Victoria,
I hope that this letter, written in haste, finds you well and that you are enjoying your time abroad. Although I am enjoying my classes at the Academy, I miss you and wish for your return. For your sake, I am extremely glad that you are not here to witness my energetic, rowdy brothers, who have been getting into shocking mischief lately. Thankfully, I will be able to show you my precious kitten since you will be back soon. I anticipate your return!
Harold and Nicholas have been getting in the most shocking and improper mischief these days. For some reason, they are absurdly fond of practical jokes which others do not find at all amusing. Happily, they will replace sugar with salt, balance buckets of water on doors, and place frogs on pillows if they can only get a laugh. Although their tutor, very young and quite handsome, discourages their activities, they continue to behave like wild Indians. It is dreadful. Armed with extra servants, we will be traveling to the seaside next week, with the hope that the fresh air and open space will quickly tire and keep them out of their shocking mischief.
I have been enjoying my classes at Miss Primply's Academy for Young Ladies of Gentility. Currently, my courses are art with Madame Fussebugette, back from holiday in France, music and drawing with Lady Spinster, composition and embroidery with Miss Primpy, and deportment with Duchess Winters. For our annual Academy outing, we traveled to Highest Hill Park, which has many excellent picnic grounds. Since the carriage ride was simply dreadful, it was and enormous relief to arrive. During the luncheon, we conversed on subjects such as balls and new dresses . I wish you had been present. You would have loved it. I will be happy when you are once again taking classes at Miss Primpy's Academy with me.
Mama has finally allowed me to purchase a kitten! Can you believe it? Since we do not have a cat, I bought it from Lady Thompson's daughter's best friend's aunt's cousin, who has twelve Persian cats. Scheherazade, my kitten, is a dear. Thankfully, my maid Annabelle, keeps her well-groomed and clean. For all Scheherazade's merits, she has an unfortunate but not unusual tendency to not use her litter box, although it is from Paris and very expensive. Comforted by my care, Scheherazade has quickly adjusted, and I thank Mama daily for my precious pet.
I hope you enjoy the remainder of your tour. At the Academy, currently very boring due to your absence, my classes will be much less dull and dreary upon your return. Hopefully, Harold and Nicholas, whose behavior has not yet improved, will have finished their malevolent mischief by that time, and we will be able to admire and enjoy my darling Scheherazade in peace. When you return, we shall have a garden party to celebrate if the weather is suitable. Please bring me a souvenir.
With Much Love,
Nora Augusta Ferncliff
Dearest Victoria,
I hope that this letter, written in haste, finds you well and that you are enjoying your time abroad. Although I am enjoying my classes at the Academy, I miss you and wish for your return. For your sake, I am extremely glad that you are not here to witness my energetic, rowdy brothers, who have been getting into shocking mischief lately. Thankfully, I will be able to show you my precious kitten since you will be back soon. I anticipate your return!
Harold and Nicholas have been getting in the most shocking and improper mischief these days. For some reason, they are absurdly fond of practical jokes which others do not find at all amusing. Happily, they will replace sugar with salt, balance buckets of water on doors, and place frogs on pillows if they can only get a laugh. Although their tutor, very young and quite handsome, discourages their activities, they continue to behave like wild Indians. It is dreadful. Armed with extra servants, we will be traveling to the seaside next week, with the hope that the fresh air and open space will quickly tire and keep them out of their shocking mischief.
I have been enjoying my classes at Miss Primply's Academy for Young Ladies of Gentility. Currently, my courses are art with Madame Fussebugette, back from holiday in France, music and drawing with Lady Spinster, composition and embroidery with Miss Primpy, and deportment with Duchess Winters. For our annual Academy outing, we traveled to Highest Hill Park, which has many excellent picnic grounds. Since the carriage ride was simply dreadful, it was and enormous relief to arrive. During the luncheon, we conversed on subjects such as balls and new dresses . I wish you had been present. You would have loved it. I will be happy when you are once again taking classes at Miss Primpy's Academy with me.
Mama has finally allowed me to purchase a kitten! Can you believe it? Since we do not have a cat, I bought it from Lady Thompson's daughter's best friend's aunt's cousin, who has twelve Persian cats. Scheherazade, my kitten, is a dear. Thankfully, my maid Annabelle, keeps her well-groomed and clean. For all Scheherazade's merits, she has an unfortunate but not unusual tendency to not use her litter box, although it is from Paris and very expensive. Comforted by my care, Scheherazade has quickly adjusted, and I thank Mama daily for my precious pet.
I hope you enjoy the remainder of your tour. At the Academy, currently very boring due to your absence, my classes will be much less dull and dreary upon your return. Hopefully, Harold and Nicholas, whose behavior has not yet improved, will have finished their malevolent mischief by that time, and we will be able to admire and enjoy my darling Scheherazade in peace. When you return, we shall have a garden party to celebrate if the weather is suitable. Please bring me a souvenir.
With Much Love,
Nora Augusta Ferncliff
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Great Squirrel War by Elise
I have had many problems keeping squirrels out of my bird feeder. Since I have always liked birds I experimented many times. When I had to buy a new and expensive feeder, which did not work very well, I got pretty mad at those squirrels. Luckily, it all turned out okay as you will see. Reading this report will hopefully be very interesting.
I have always liked birds. When I finally got a bird feeder, an old used one, I was very excited. Finding the bird feeder in the woods, I got some seed and set it up right outside my window, waiting for the birds to come. For one great and wonderful week, everything went fine. Then the squirrels came! Unfortunately, the wide variety of birds, which I had been enjoying, quickly disappeared. This was very frustrating now, there were almost no birds, and even less birdseed! What should I do? I was sad, I had liked watching the birds very much.
I decided that I would have to buy a squirrel proof feeder. So I did. What was annoying was the fact that the $30, “squirrel proof” feeder wasn't squirrel proof. Frustrated, I wondered how to make the squirrels leave. Despite my everlasting efforts at scaring them, the squirrels, smarter than I thought, continued to sneak up on the full feeder whenever my back was turned. I experimented, knocking and yanking open the window surprised them the first few times and then they got used to it. When I took down the suet, which the birds and squirrels loved, even less birds came, especially the woodpeckers. The thing that was really annoying was that I had bought a new feeder for nothing.
I was really mad at those squirrels. Literally driving me up the wall the squirrels stubbornly continued foiling all my attempts to keep them away! Although I tried putting duck tape over the crack in the feeder, which they were eating out of, it was too cold for the duck tape to stick well and the squirrels simply ripped it off. On the pole, which was how they got to the bird feeder, I smeared petroleum jelly. That stopped them for two days. Finally my dad suggested that I shoot lemon juice in their eyes with a squirt gun. As a kid he had done this when biking through a mean dog's yard. An improvement on my silly plan of borrowing a Beebe gun! As you can seeI was getting a bit obsessive about the whole squirrel thing. Hooray! The lemon juice worked. The problem, it was about 42 degrees outside. When I opened the window everyone else complained. When I stuffed the half-opened window with towels, everyone still complained and I would wake up at six thirty A.M. to a squirrelly noise outside.
At last, I found a good feeder. I was no longer mad at the squirrels. Revenge is sweet and long lasting as I watch them attempting to infiltrate my feeder. Ha ha ha! I finally bought a feeder that actually worked! As the birds are cautious about the new bird feeder, an unusual looking one, I still have a bit of a wait before victory is complete, but I am happy. Watching birds is still one of my favorite things to do and I am enjoying it in a squirrel free environment. No more squirrels! They can be very annoying. Now they're gone! Sadly, there is no such thing as a squirrel proof suet feeder, but that is the only thing which mars my joy. Who knows, maybe I'll invent one someday!
I have always liked birds. When I finally got a bird feeder, an old used one, I was very excited. Finding the bird feeder in the woods, I got some seed and set it up right outside my window, waiting for the birds to come. For one great and wonderful week, everything went fine. Then the squirrels came! Unfortunately, the wide variety of birds, which I had been enjoying, quickly disappeared. This was very frustrating now, there were almost no birds, and even less birdseed! What should I do? I was sad, I had liked watching the birds very much.
I decided that I would have to buy a squirrel proof feeder. So I did. What was annoying was the fact that the $30, “squirrel proof” feeder wasn't squirrel proof. Frustrated, I wondered how to make the squirrels leave. Despite my everlasting efforts at scaring them, the squirrels, smarter than I thought, continued to sneak up on the full feeder whenever my back was turned. I experimented, knocking and yanking open the window surprised them the first few times and then they got used to it. When I took down the suet, which the birds and squirrels loved, even less birds came, especially the woodpeckers. The thing that was really annoying was that I had bought a new feeder for nothing.
I was really mad at those squirrels. Literally driving me up the wall the squirrels stubbornly continued foiling all my attempts to keep them away! Although I tried putting duck tape over the crack in the feeder, which they were eating out of, it was too cold for the duck tape to stick well and the squirrels simply ripped it off. On the pole, which was how they got to the bird feeder, I smeared petroleum jelly. That stopped them for two days. Finally my dad suggested that I shoot lemon juice in their eyes with a squirt gun. As a kid he had done this when biking through a mean dog's yard. An improvement on my silly plan of borrowing a Beebe gun! As you can seeI was getting a bit obsessive about the whole squirrel thing. Hooray! The lemon juice worked. The problem, it was about 42 degrees outside. When I opened the window everyone else complained. When I stuffed the half-opened window with towels, everyone still complained and I would wake up at six thirty A.M. to a squirrelly noise outside.
At last, I found a good feeder. I was no longer mad at the squirrels. Revenge is sweet and long lasting as I watch them attempting to infiltrate my feeder. Ha ha ha! I finally bought a feeder that actually worked! As the birds are cautious about the new bird feeder, an unusual looking one, I still have a bit of a wait before victory is complete, but I am happy. Watching birds is still one of my favorite things to do and I am enjoying it in a squirrel free environment. No more squirrels! They can be very annoying. Now they're gone! Sadly, there is no such thing as a squirrel proof suet feeder, but that is the only thing which mars my joy. Who knows, maybe I'll invent one someday!
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