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.

Hawk

I was on a walk with my sister and her oldest daughter, and we saw all sorts of things. Most notably, we saw a hawk.

It was at the local soccar field, sitting on the very top of one of the goals, staring at us.

We scared it, though, and had to leave. On our way back from the park, it was there again, with another.

This time they let us get very close to them -suprisingly enough, since my niece was bouncing around and being rather loud.

We were only a few feet away from them when we turned back for fear of scaring them.

I think they live nearby, so I'll try to go and see them again. Maybe next time I can get a picture of them, I'll certainly try.

Color

Lately, it's seemed so bleak. Not that it isn't pretty, winter is my favorite season. But sometimes I wish it were just a little more colorful. I miss the flowers, and the bugs, (but NOT the gnats) I just miss the color of it all. So, here's what comes of a girl dreaming of more color.



Enjoy my creativity, or insanity. Trying to work out which - if not both. ;)

Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A. . .

Dog! My dog! I wanted you to see her, so, here she is! :D My little Fuzzy. <3

Is It Really Over?

Sorry, that I haven't been on in a while, but with all the Holidays I've been busy. First Christmas, then my Birthday, (I'm thirteen now! :D :D :D ) then New Years. And when that was all over, it was a rush for me to play with my friend as much as possible before school starts back. Well, now it's back, and we're trying to get back into the regular routine.
Not so easy with Mom sick, and me getting sick. Especially since I'm homeschooled, and thereby my only teacher is now sick. But we're making do, with me mostly sticking to the subjects I don't need so much help with - we'll catch up on the rest later.
Hope you enjoyed the holidays, if you ask me it feels like they shouldn't be over yet!