Hello, sun! :D Hello, gnats. -_-

After a cold (by our standards at least) winter it's great when things finally start to warm up. It's warm enough now for t-shirts, sandals, and shorts. Of course, with the sun comes the gnats. But that's what you get for living near a marsh. [maybe I'll get to take a picture of the marsh and post it sometime....It really is lovely].

For those of you who don't have gnats where you live, they light on your arms, legs, and any other skin they can get to. Then the acidic liquid on their legs burns tiny bits of your skin and melts it so that they can lick it up with their long tongues.... >_<

Gross, I know. And more than a little painful. But I for one am still grateful for the warm weather. And as for the gnats, it could be a whole lot worse.

Moral of the day: Be content with what you have, and don't complain as much as I do. ;-)

Remember

I recieved a chain mail (something I get and send alot) from my mother.

The message is very deep, and touching, and I am going to post it on my blog.

Send this around, if you can.

Remember.




63 years later









In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER
Please read the little cartoon carefully, it's powerful. Then read the comments at the end.
I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same.
In Memoriam





















It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.

Please send this e-mail to 10 people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
!

Here They Are...

Here they are! Hope you enjoy them. :-)

Bee Pics

Sorry it's been such a long time, but I've been busy.. (YES, AGAIN. -_-)

But, I have some pics to show you from when I went to a beekeeping class.

Maybe not a good idea since now daddy wants to get a hive....

And also since one of my friends that was there with me is deathly afraid of bees.

Oh well. We had fun!

I'll put them all in a different post, since I'm having trouble with this one.

[btw, when you see them, I'm the one in the penguin t-shirt, and mother said I'm allowed to put the pictures]

Sherlock at Home

Today I got to play at the house of two of my best friends, (who are sisters).

For the sake of online privacy I will use only the first letters of their names when I'm talking about them here, and the first letters of their NICKNAMES at that. So it is entirely safe. :)

I've had a detective agency before, with another friend, and it worked out nicely. We had a lab, and analyzed evidence with my microscope and solved (real) mysteries and everything, but she got bored of it and we had to stop our detective work.

But today I started up a new Detective Agency with R. and H.

We have secret names we use for our detective work.

(different from our nicknames. We have a lot of names: we all have a nickname, a tease name, a detective name, and an online name, lol)

I'm the leader of the agency, (Not self proclaimed, voted. They both said I should be) H.'s the Field Investigator, and R.'s the Navigator of Field Missions.

We named our Agency "Serasponda Detective Agency".

And we've already got a good mystery we're working on.

What is it? Well, that's top secret. ;)

But if you're ever in the area and have a mystery that needs solving, you know who to call. :)

Lazy Bugs

My nieces are long gone, and I'm back to my walking schedule. . .

30 minutes, every day, no matter how cold it is.

Might not always be fun, but it was my only New Years resolution this year, and I'm sticking with it.

So, yesterday when I was walking, I found a little green bug lying on the path. (a stink bug, but, hey, I don't have one for my collection yet!)

It looked dead, so I took it home to add to my collection of well-preserved dead bugs.

But while my mother and I were looking at it under the magnifying glass, what did it do other than wake up and start wiggling about!

Apparently, it had gotton so cold that it was hibernating!

And today, I found more! Another stink bug, and a cricket! All hibernating in the cold.



Sorry little buggys, didn't mean to wake you up. ;)

Haircuts Just Aren't My Thing. . . . .

Mom's been needing a haircut, and with Sis and her daughters visiting she didn't want to take time away from home to go get one. She asked Sis, but she was too worried of messing it up. So, I, in my naive-ness, offered to do it. (big mistake, since I've never cut anyone's hair in my life. Besides a doll's when I was about six, and that didn't go so well.)

She told me to cut the back bit off, and make it even, but while I was still cutting it, she gasped and pushed me away, seeing a rather large chunk of hair on the floor. I told her I was still working on it, to let me finish, but she wouldn't.

She seemed kind of upset. Then Sis went back and cut off the hanging bits - just like I had been going to do. And Mom came in and said I had been right, and it wasn't that bad. But that didn't really help much after she had gotton upset earlier. . . . *sigh*

Well, at least I learned something: I can NOT cut hair.