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Thursday, August 11, 2016

Beautiful Blessings - 8/10/16

~ taking the kids to the Zoo to You program and having different animals at it than the one they went to a few weeks ago

~ having John and Alexa over to help with the blog-iversary project

~ going out for ice cream with my family and them

~ a kitty proudly wearing a bow made by his girlie

~ teasing John just because

~ ending the night with A Ticket to Ride and losing horribly but having fun nonetheless

Monday, September 7, 2015

Beautiful Blessings - 9/7/15

~ Having Heidi come over for a day of fun!

~ Chatting about anything and everything....with lots of laughing in between ;~)

~ Going for a walk and taking a detour at the creek! Ahhh the water felt so good! We saw a Monarch Butterfly, a frog, crayfish (aka crawdads), little fish and minnows, and a snake sunning himself on a rock!

~ Enjoying some delicious "Panda Paws" ice cream! Thanks Heidi!

~ Having fun creating a movie to the song "You've Got a Friend in Me!"

(Email readers will need to go to the blog to see the movie!)

Beautiful Blessings - 9/6/15

~ Lil' G's newest treasure!

~ Our first Sunday School class for the year! I cant wait to see how the kids in 3rd and 4th grow! <3

~ Finding wild animals in the yard ;~)

~ The delicious apples on my tree!!

~ A campfire! And scrumptious corn cooked over it!

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Beautiful Blessings - 8/6/15

~ Having creative sisters pretend that the lettuce we were snacking on was ice cream! ;~) Heehee!!

~ Going to work for the first time in over half a year!!

~ The sound of the sewing machine whirring!

~ Thanking God that my dance teacher and her family and all their animals and things were kept safe after they had a barn fire last Friday.

~ Watching "Brigadoon" for the first time in years! I only remembered the last 10 minutes of it actually lol! :~)

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Science Saturday: Field Crickets, Shooting Stars, and Nocturnal Animals!

(It's not the shooting star, but it is the night sky! This is Cassiopeia! :~D )

A few somewhat intriguing facts that may stick to your brain so that you can win in Jeopardy* someday:

Field Crickets mate in the fall before the frost comes. They lay their eggs in the soil to wait out winter. After they do this, when the frost comes, they die.
If you can hear crickets, it's the male crickets making all the noise. They have crinkled little wings with 2 unique parts: a ridged vein called a file and a hardened section called a scraper. They can alternate which file and which scraper they use, but commonly they are right-winged. They use the right file and the left scraper.
Females can be distinguished by their tidy, song-less wings.
Shooting Stars are not stars that are shooting past.
In fact they consist of a piece of debris that collided with the Earth's atmosphere. The friction of the high speed of moving through the atmosphere gives it a glowing appearance until it melts and vaporizes.
During the time it is visible, it's called a Meteor. If doesn't vaporize, and reaches the Earth intact, it is a Meteorite.
One of the most well-known nocturnal animal is the Bat. Bats are a small insect-eating mammal with a unique gift of echolocation. High frequency sound waves bounce off the objects around them and they know what to eat or and what to avoid hitting into.
Owls are another well-known nocturnal animal. Owls are a bird of prey, and while they don't have echolocation, they have marvelous ears to listen for tasty morsels. They also have large light sensitive eyes that are work very well in very little light. One of the best kept secrets of Owls is their silent flight through the forest, due to unique feathers on their wings.
The glowing eyes we often associate with nocturnal animals are usually from cats, racoons, porcupines, skunks, and deer. They have special reflectors in their eyes that bounce the light back from behind the retina so the retina has a chance to absorb it.

*If you win in Jeopardy, please give me credit ;~) lol!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Fun at the Zoo! :~D

Yesterday we spent a lovely evening at the zoo! :~D

When we came up to the snow leopard cage, he was acting crazy! He was bouncing back and forth off the wall!

He was looking at the innocently grazing white-lipped deer on the other side. "A snack!" the snow leopard thought! ;~) Alas the zookeepers wouldn't let him invite him over for dinner.