Lego Minecraft

So you have probably seen my other post about minecraft if not please see that post before reading this post.

Lego Cuusoo is a company that takes ideas and makes them into sets though they are not in the lego catalog.  They were getting a lot of comments that said "Do minecraft" and so they did. That was in 2012, but now lego has taken the idea even farther and made a Village and Nether along with the first one.

If you get the catalogs, then in the Late Holiday 2013 Catalog you can see the lego mine craft sets. If you play minecraft then you will know that they labeled the villager a zombie and the zombie the villager. I found that so funny. Hope you do to.

Mother Nature's Dream

Mother Nature's Dream

Mother Nature loves nature working together as a team.

 Animals helping each other, plants helping each other,

both working together. 

Though this is her dream and only is a dream,

 because when she wakes up the world is a mess.

We are making that mess. Everyday it becomes worse and worse.

Though dreams rarely come true lets make this one come true.

This world is our home, so let's treat it like a home and make it more

beautiful than ever.

Millions of animals die everyday, because of trash in the ocean and on land. 

I watch people throw trash out their window all the time. 

It is truly sad. 

I'am so very sad to be part of this race, that wastes tons and tons

of trash every year.

Help Mother Nature out, by saving the world, our home,

 millions of others home. We call it earth now,

 but if we keep wasting stuff, we will call it a 

trash can, and I don't know anyone

 who wants to call our true home a trash can.

KEEP CALM

AND

SAVE

 THE WORLD

Hopefully these two quotes that I made up will help you realize how bad this truly is. I was inspired to make the keep calm one, because everyone was making these styles of quotes, I had not seen anyone make one like this one so I decided to do so my self. As for the first one I wanted to tell you how badly we are polluting the air, oceans, and land. I really hope this opens up your minds to saving the world, even the smallest thing could make a big difference. Maybe if you figure out how to make a machine that will collect the oil in the ocean, please help out. 

Oh and by the way search Trash in Ocean, see what comes up. :(

Animmal Jam

Animal Jam is a fun online game that you may play on the computer. You can be different types of animals. When you are first building a account you can be a Wolf, Panda, Seal, Penguin, and some others animals I can't quite remember them all right now. 

There are options of being a non-member or a member. If you are a member you can get special things that non-members can't get, but of course you must pay money to be a member. I really want to be a member, because you can have pet owls. 

I hope you have a fun time playing this game.

The California Condor

The California Condor

Gypsus californianus

The California Condor is an endangered species. It is one of my favorite animals. This amazing bird has a 9 1/2 feet wing span. The crop that is a red spot on its chest stores food, because they eat dead carcasses. They can ride the thermals and don't have to flap there wings for about a hour. One of the most easiest ways to identify a Condor is that they have white in the front of there wings and the Turkey Vulture as the white in the back of the wings. The 49ers killed the birds and used the feathers to put gold, because the feathers are hollow. 

Being Parents 

The parents lay one egg at a time and take turns incubating the egg.  54 days of to incubat the egg. The parents spend 1 year or more with the chick. That means only 1 chick every other year.

I meant to post this when we went to Utah, but I got to busy seeing the sights I forgot to post it. So it is late, sorry. Life is always busy and it never turns out the way you want it to. 

Bookmarks

A bookmark does not only hold your place in the book your reading, but it is also a form of art. You can make all different types of bookmarks or can simply buy them at stores. I belief that making them yourself is easier, because you can make tons and tons of them for only a few dollars. You can not run out of ideas for making them. Here are some pictures for ideas.

I love these bookmarks so much, because you can put them on the corner of the page.  I have not made any of these yet even though I love them so much.









These paper-clip bookmarks are really easy to make and are so cool looking.

I hope this blog post inspires you to make your own

 bookmarks, and do use them.

A Poem for Two Voices

Mom, my bother, and me were listening to Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman. I was inspired to make my own poem for two voices. I felt my poem should not be about insects or birds, so I made my poem about a picture I made with chalk, oil pastels, and color pencils.

Above the clouds                         

                                                      Birds call 

the orders to                                  the orders to

fly lower                                       fly higher

Beside the skyscraper                   

                                                      Is a tree

green

                                                      brown

beautiful                                        beautiful

Under the tree

                                                      Is a person

sleeping

                                                      resting

snoring quaitly                              snoring loudly 

Below the sea

                                                      are fish

ells

and many more                              and many more

creepy crawlies                              curous creatures  

Fun Facts about Grand Canyon and the Colorado River

1. The Grand Canyon is still getting bigger every year. The canyon widens 5 sheets thick of paper each year and gets deeper 1 sheet thick of paper every year.
2.The Mississippi drops 6 inches for every mile as it travels to the ocean, and the Colorado drops 8-9 feet for every mile.
3. There is 20-25 feet of snow every year on the north rim, and only 10-12 inches on the south rim.
4. The north rim eroded away from the canyon faster then the south rim.
5. Grand Canyon was the second site to have California Condor released.
6. 76 California Condors are now in the Grand Canyon.

DUDE! Can You Identify the Layers of the Grand Canyon?

Dude completely tells you how the Grand Canyon was made. Deposition, Uplift, Downcutting, and Erosion all have to work together to make a canyon and they have to work in the order listed below.

Deposition - layers of sediment and organic material
Uplift - when the oceanic plate pushed under the continental plate (Colorado Plateau)
Downcutting - downward erosion by rivers that deepen the channel
Erosion - weathering by wind and water

Identifying the Layers

1. Granite veins (pink) is called schist and is at the bottom of the canyon
2. Limestone is white but looks red because it is porous and iron collects in the holes and is later oxidized
3. Sandstone is the white ring called the bathtub ring
4. Mudstone is the sloping layer of the canyon because when mud gets wet, it slowly slides off in a slope

My Fish Camp Scholarship Application

Why do you want to go to Fish Camp this summer? (100-150 words)

Several years ago when I lived in Bend, I went to a summer festival. A local fly club had a booth and volunteers taught kids how to make a simple fly. I got to learn how to tie a wooly bugger and I just fell in love with fly tying.
  
I like to do many crafts. Fly tying is my favorite kind of craft, because it it sometimes tedious. It has small details and requires good eye-hand coordination.

Another reason I like fly fishing is because I really like nature. You get to learn about insects. The hooks use feathers and fur which I enjoy collecting when I go on nature walks with my family. You also get to learn some biology and ecology.  You also get to learn about different kinds of fish and where they live.  The flies are like little statues of nature.

What is it about fly fishing that is of interest to you? (100-150 words)

I have always wanted to learn how to fly fish and I think this is the perfect opportunity.  Years ago when I lived in Bend, our neighbor taught me how to cast.  I really enjoyed it.  It was both challenging and fun.

My friend is nervous about staying away from her family overnight.  I want to go to fish camp so that I can tell her how fun it was and all that I learned.  Then maybe next year she will have the courage and we can go together. I also want to meet new friends with the same interest as me.

I would like this camp because I want to be in the outdoors for long periods.  I really like camping out in the open.  I also want to find a life long hobby so I can teach my kids when I grow up.

Orange Jelly Fungi

I found this fungus at Empire Lakes. I was walking along the trail and my brother found it for me.  It was growing on a decaying Douglas Fir branch, I think.  My papa says he thinks it is Douglas Fir, too.The Orange Jelly fungus belongs to a family called Dacrymycetales. It is probably one of my favorite fungi. It lives mostly in moist climates, for example the Pacific Northwest Coast. It is edible, best steamed or boiled.

I learned that Dacrymycetales palmatus is very similar to two other jelly fungi, Tremella aurantia and Tremella mesenterica but those are usually more yellow and grow on hardwood trees which still have their bark, instead of dead conifers.  A year ago, we went on a family hike in the Trinity Mountains and we saw what I think now is Tremella growing on a pine tree.   

I'm trying to do this science experiment and I need a special slime mold, but unfortunately this is not the one that I need. So I ordered a kit from Carolina Biological, and I just got it in the mail yesterday. It was really exciting and the mold has already grown a lot.

This is my first submission to the Outdoor Hour Challenges at Handbook of Nature Study. 

Our First Foreign Student

Today we got to see our first foreign exchange student leave, it was very sad. Though, let's look on the bright side of things. We got our first exchange student. We got to play games and teach her new things. But I would have to say my favorite part was having her here and learning a new recipe on how to make jiaozi (dumpling) filling. 

Her favorite store I think was Michaels. She asked to go three times. She took pictures of everything. We also got to go to Mt Lassen and play in the snow. :)

Minecraft

Minecraft is a fun video game that you can build and mine. It is one of my favorite games along with Plants vs Zombies. There are two different  ways to play creative and surveil. Creative is were you have all the stuff you can in Minecraft you can fly around and make things. survive is were you have to collect the resources and survive also you have to out for monsters that came out and to try to you. My favorite is survive. It is a very fun game. I think you should get it. through it would be funner on the iPad then any other device. The monsters are Creeper, zombie, spider, and skeleton. The creeper is the most well know.

These are just some things you can make.

 Japanese temple

 London Bridge

Postage Stamp Collecting

I love to stamp collect. As you probably know you don't get postage stamps that often. So then how do you go about collecting stamps? You should start collecting just all the stamps that come in the mail.When you get really into it, you can then select a category or a certain topic and collect just stamps that fit into that topic. If you pick birds, for example, then you could collect birds stamps, cancellations with birds, and even envelops with bird artwork in the corner.  You could also  narrow it down and maybe collect only hummingbirds.

Then you probably would want to show it to other people so you can make a nice way to format it on a page and you should have a little information about the category. Then you can display your project or collection at a stamp show. A stamp show is basically is where a bunch of stamp collectors get together and show their stamp collections.  
 

I like to collect birds but now I am narrowing it down just to owls. I am getting some of my stamps from Ebay. Ebay is a really easy way of getting stamps. You can Learn a lot from stamp collecting.

Here is some pics of my stamp collection  

Happy collecting :) (:

A Trip with Grandma

When we were on a road trip with grandma I got to get better at taking pictures. Now I am really good at taking pictures.

This is a picture that I took. It is of a long meadow, and it is were the  McKenzie  River starts just as a little spring. 

This is a up close picture of a flower that hangs upside down.  I had to put my camera upside down and I didn't know how it was going to turn out. So I think I got really lucky.

This is a Indian paint brush flower. I think it is called that because the Indians used it to make red paint with it or it could be because of the shape. 

This is Queen's an Lace. It has lots of little flowers in one big flower. 

This is a Butterfly of some sort.  The key to taking a picture of a Butterfly is always be ready  take a picture so when it opens it's wings you can snap it really fast. 

This is a flower that is just starting to open up. When it is opens it is going to look kind of like a Indian Paint brush but it is only going to be pink.

Here are some river pictures. The 2nd one has two rivers that are coming together  and the other two are close ups of the river.

About my family

我家有四个人，妈妈，爸爸，弟弟，和我。

妈妈三十九岁。妈妈出生在一九七二年。妈妈属鼠。

爸爸四十二岁。爸爸出生在一九七零年。爸爸 属狗。

我九岁。我出生在二零零二年。我属马。

弟弟七岁。弟弟出生在二零零五年。弟弟属鸡。

Chinatown :: June 2012

今天我们在唐人街。我喜欢唐人街。今天天气刮风和晴朗。我和两中国人说话。我买了熊猫画。我也买了一个洋娃娃。

Dragonfruit / Pitaya /  Huŏlóng guŏ  火龙果

我也买了一个火龙果。火龙果很好很好。它有小黑色树籽，它也是白色。它是甜甜的。

This is the dragon fruit flower (close-up) and the dragon fruit ripe on the tree.

Photo from   Dragonfruit Pictures

Photo from   Dragonfruit Pictures

The Lotus / Liánhuā  莲花

图片里有五个人。

再见！

Just Today

Today I got up and had Cream of Wheat for breakfast. I played on the computer and held Salt, my rat. Then we did a lot of school work. Then we went to the fitness center for swim team.  We came home and had some dinner. I read a book and then went to bed.

Dog Creek Falls

Dog Creek Falls is a creek 30 min north of Redding that feeds into the Sacramento River. It has a beach of river rocks that have very cool colors and shapes. I found a rock that I call the leaf rock because it looks like a leaf and another rock that is shaped like a nail.

At Dog Creek there is also a natural slide into a small pool. Is that cool or what?  It was too cold for me to slide down the natural slide but I did find a frog.  A little later, my brother was trying to catch a baby water strider and when he couldn't, he threw the plastic tub towards me but it landed in the river and it was gone before we could get it.  We both felt very bad.  We didn't mean to litter.  When we come next time, we are going to pick up the trash that others left.

This is how you get there:

First, you get on the freeway that heads north until you come to Exit 707,  then take it. Come to the end of the exit and turn left.  Continue under the freeway until you get to a street called Fender Ferry Road.  Turn left onto Fender Ferry, drive approximately two miles across three bridges, and then park. Follow a trail downstream of the bridge.  Caution! The road to get there is a bumpy, dirt road.

My Snow Experiments

One day, there were snowflakes falling.  So I decided to get two plastic tubs.  I filled one of them with fresh new snow and the other with old snow.  I did not pack them down.  Then I took them inside and waited for each one to melt. I wanted to find out which one had the most water.  My hypothesis was that they would have the same amount of water.

I let it melt and later came back to look at them.  The fresh, new snow had the least amount of water.  The old snow had the most amount of water.  

While I waited, I took a black piece of paper outside and caught some snowflakes.   I could see many different kinds of snowflakes.  My favorite is the one at the top.  Here is a fun website to learn more about snowflakes.

Bandon 2010

This is the place we went

My papa took my brother, my mommy and me to the Sixes River. When we were there I learn how to pan for gold. We found a lot of water dogs.  Later that day, we went to the West Coast Game Park. There were a lot of animals that you could hold. We had so much fun! You have to go there some time.