Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Pictures of eagles (and a few other things) :)

Well, I've had these pictures for almost two weeks now. These are pictures that were taken at the Connowingo Dam. I didn't take a lot of them (obviously since I'm in some), my sister took some of them, but not sure all of which ones so just wanted to give her some credit.


There was lots of scum in the water in the river above the dam!
The other side of the dam...
Here's a picture of a heron my sister shot through a telescope.
Part of the river at sunset - sorry it's kind of blurry.
A lone bald eagle, we got this picture through a telescope too, as well as the next few...




Another one joined this one...





Ooh isn't this a good picture?





Alyssa took this picture of an eagle in flight.
I have it as my desktop backround.



The Connowingo Dam.



There are three eagles in this picture, two on the structure on the left and one juvenile on the structure on the right... you can click on the picture to enlarge it and try to find them.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Poor Ruthie Red

I just looked into my fish tank and saw that one of my new fish, Ruthie Red, had died during the night... hopefully she died in her sleep. :( She had just had babies (they all got eaten though). I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Our last fish just like her died when she was pregnant. Maybe the other fish were picking on her and she had a nervous breakdown.

Valentine's Day

Wow, it's coming up in two days! Yikes I want to make some of my friends some Valentines but now they are going to be late! I don't expect to get any, at least not from any guys... if I do end up with one though... hmm I can't think of any guy who wouldn't disturb me by sending me one lol...

Monday, February 11, 2008

Peacock feathers


I've always loved peacock feathers... :)

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Lancaster county countryside


Last Sabbath we visited the Lancaster Seventh Day Adventist Church. Afterwards on our way to the Connowingo Dam, we passed through Lancaster County's beautiful countryside! We saw over half a dozen horses and buggies. I got more pictures but no time to post them right now!

Yesterday

Well I went to the dentist yesterday, and no cavities, again. In fact, even though I hardly ever brush my teeth, I've never had a cavity. My dad joked it was probably the protective layer of plaque... idk maybe lol... my sister who faithfully brushes her teeth got a cavity. Kind of ironic, but I think it's because some of the things they put in most toothpastes are worse for teeth than never brushing them.

Anyway after we left the dentist office our whole family got together to go to a park in Allentown. It has a pond with geese and ducks and a nice walking/biking trail that's a total of 1.25 miles around. However, we didn't end up walking all the way around. Because after about half a mile, I saw a cute little squirrel on the ground. So I stopped and stood still. It was really friendly and hopped right one over to me and looked at me, it was soooo adorable! Then the rest of my family came and stood still too, and pretty soon there were more than a dozen squirrels scampering around us. We figured that they wanted food, because there were a lot of empty peanut shells laying around like someone had been feeding them before, which is probably why they were so friendly. My mom and little brother and little sister had to leave, but my dad, my older sister and I went to a grocery store and bought a big bag of unshelled, unsalted peanuts and brought them back to where we had last seen the squirrels. Sure enough, more and more squirrels kept popping out for a treat. Then a little flock of cardinals came to get their share of peanuts. They came so close, most of them came close enough to touch, to get their peanut treats. My sister and my dad even got a few squirrels to grab peanuts out of their hands. I wish I had had my camera! They were just too cute!!!! I hope we'll be able to feed them again soon.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Angel Falls


Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world! It's in South America. Isn't it beautiful?

Monday, February 4, 2008

A thought on Creation vs. Evolution

You can choose to believe that you are descended from an ape, or ultimately from a piece of slime from the bottom of the ocean...
but I know that I was intelligently designed by the Creator.

"I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth full well." Psalms 139:14

Even with all the "evidence",
Evolution makes no sense.

Can't wait!

My mom finally called a few rabbit breeders who she got some info on at the Farm Show. So she met a few people who have baby minilops soon to be available and she'll get back with us when she knows she has what we are looking for. :) Which to be precise would be two sisters, or of the same age, mini lops, agouti or pearl colored coats. Anyway, it's going to be awhile to wait... around three weeks til she gets back with us and then from there if she has what we're looking for, like another month til they're old enough to go. Hope the time goes by fast...

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Groundhog day!

yep, it's groundhog day! I don't believe in the superstition that when spring comes depends on whether mr. groundhog sees his shadow or not... but it's still a funny holiday!

This Sabbath

Well today was great... our youth class (well most of it anyway) went on a day's outing. My sister and friend Korah and I slept over at our SS teacher's house because they live close to the church and we had to be there real early. Yeah so we woke up at like 5:00 a.m. and I was kind of tired the whole day cuz of that. Anyway sabbath school and church and potluck were very nice, and then afterwards we went to the Conowingo Dam in Maryland to see bald eagles... I did end up seeing at least a dozen... I think more though... we got some pictures, that I'll try to upload and post tomorrow. And while we weren't looking for eagles we hung out along the river bank... then in the evening wewent to this interesting restaurant/deli called Issac's. The food was okay, we got soda and two personal pizzas and split them and ice cream for dessert. well i guess it's bedtime now *yawn* (more like long past bedtime...) so good night!

Thursday, January 31, 2008

New fish!!!

Yep I picked out two new fish and named one Koramae and the other Ruthie Red. They're both platies, one's a red wag (Ruthie Red that is), and Koramae is white with blueish and greenish color on it. I still have my three old platies, named Nicky, Flame, and Dot. They all are becoming very good friends. :D

Music Video- NEW DAY by KAM trio

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

blue mushroom

Isn't this mushroom so exoticly cool?!

btw it isn't photoshopped, this really is a species of mushroom...

so...

yes I think Blogger is having issues... it won't let me change my avatar. Oh well...
Anyway guess what! Okay really you don't have to guess... the other day I went out shopping with my mom and yeah I got some great stuff... I got my sister a fish tank as an early 16th birthday present, and I got myself one as well... mine's purple, hers is teal. They each hold 5 gallons, they're a minibow kit, with almost everything except the fish. So I'm not sure what kind of fish I'm getting but neon tetras would be awesome, so would guppies... maybe angelfish. hmmm... anyway that's not the only stuff I got, I also got a new coat. I've had my old one since I was 10 or less so even though I can still fit my coat (we got it big), it's gotten kind of shabby and the zipper acts naughty. So I'm really glad for my new coat! It's white with light blue and green trim on it... I also got this pretty red shirt to wear to church, and a new swimsuit... I don't normally shop for swimsuits this time of year but they were having a sale and I need a new swimsuit for when we go to this indoor water park in March for my sister's birthday.
Anyway, I guess that's all for now... bye