My adoption story, as told by my dad
Note: I don't believe he said this but that's not my birth-mother's name...
And I think the odds of MPS "disappearing" are extremely under exaggerated, to say the least. The others are quite conservative as well. I just noticed, Penny's mentioned in there.
28 May 2011
Darn it, and Highbanks
Well yesterday I caved to my habit. Held out for 17 days. Today I went to where I caved (my weak place), and I was given this idea. Why not try a point system? where every day is a point, while surviving my weak place is three. It could just be silly enough to work. I've heard somewhere if you can go 14 days without doing a habit, you can break it. But, I can't dwell on what I did then, for that's past, I can only focus on what I'm doing now. The effects of my cavature (not a word, I know) is easily irritated, much greater sarcasm, and basically just wanting what's best for me. These can last for a few days. It gradually tapers off though. I'm also going to stop listening to a specific song, because when I listened to it on youtube, there was stuff that went on I don't approve of. I think just knowing that combined with me listening to it, is slowly altering my morals. So to stop it, I must stop listening, which I'll do. Below is my point counter, and day counter, which I had just installed in this picture.
A picture from our trip to highbanks. This bridge was very, very high up. I dropped a stick, which took 1.85 seconds to hit the bottom, but may be skwed due to my reaction time. still it's most likely at least 60 feet down. I hate heights for those who don't know. I Absolutely hate heights!
This is an insect I found on the same bridge, a Midge perhaps? I don't know just a wild guess, my first guess would be a mayfly, but I think they're smaller...
I think it's called the Cole Earthworks, but I forgot... and Dad said I'd definetely forget in a couple months... How about in less then a day.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2417&nm=Highbanks-Park-Earthworks
This is a picture at home of an ant "farming" aphids. What happens is the ant prods the aphid with it's antennas eventually getting the aphid to excrete. The aphids excrete a sugary substance I believe. The ant's will protect the aphids, which so they both benefit from this relationship. Did you know that before an aphid is born it's already pregnant with it's own baby aphids. Aphids are mostly wingless females, but a winged one will be born if the plant is becoming crowded.Aphids come in a multitude of colors such as green, brown, and black. (fact that aphid has babies inside of it, before it's born, is unverified. It's just something I've heard.)
A picture of a clover. A clover which is flowering actually. I think the flowers of three leaved clovers are quite intriguing.
A picture of one mantid I had let go many days earlier.
The mantid I hadd called Mini is now Snips. I let go around 10 mantids that were in the second container, leaving 3 there. one was dead the rest were fine, but I was worried for their future, since there was so many. the ones that stayed, were just ones, that didn't come out after I shook the container over a plant. the other 5 in container 1 are all still alive. Those five are: Pheonix, Swift, Shorte, Snips, and Mystery.
This was a picture of the first Praying Mantis eggsack that hatched, which I took awhile ago. That mantis that appears to be coming out, actually, well... I don't think he made it... sadly he had apparently gotten stuck trying to molt out of it's first skin (when a Mantis hatches it actually has to get out of it's first skin which encloses them like an egg. That's how so many fit inside. I know if I try to help him, I'll kill him, by dismemberment... Trust me, I've tried it before... and that's what happened.
I don't think I've said this here, but quite a few people know this, I found my half-sister, Penny. This happened 5/23/11.
A picture from our trip to highbanks. This bridge was very, very high up. I dropped a stick, which took 1.85 seconds to hit the bottom, but may be skwed due to my reaction time. still it's most likely at least 60 feet down. I hate heights for those who don't know. I Absolutely hate heights!
This is an insect I found on the same bridge, a Midge perhaps? I don't know just a wild guess, my first guess would be a mayfly, but I think they're smaller...
I think it's called the Cole Earthworks, but I forgot... and Dad said I'd definetely forget in a couple months... How about in less then a day.
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2417&nm=Highbanks-Park-Earthworks
This is a picture at home of an ant "farming" aphids. What happens is the ant prods the aphid with it's antennas eventually getting the aphid to excrete. The aphids excrete a sugary substance I believe. The ant's will protect the aphids, which so they both benefit from this relationship. Did you know that before an aphid is born it's already pregnant with it's own baby aphids. Aphids are mostly wingless females, but a winged one will be born if the plant is becoming crowded.Aphids come in a multitude of colors such as green, brown, and black. (fact that aphid has babies inside of it, before it's born, is unverified. It's just something I've heard.)
A picture of a clover. A clover which is flowering actually. I think the flowers of three leaved clovers are quite intriguing.
A picture of one mantid I had let go many days earlier.
The mantid I hadd called Mini is now Snips. I let go around 10 mantids that were in the second container, leaving 3 there. one was dead the rest were fine, but I was worried for their future, since there was so many. the ones that stayed, were just ones, that didn't come out after I shook the container over a plant. the other 5 in container 1 are all still alive. Those five are: Pheonix, Swift, Shorte, Snips, and Mystery.
This was a picture of the first Praying Mantis eggsack that hatched, which I took awhile ago. That mantis that appears to be coming out, actually, well... I don't think he made it... sadly he had apparently gotten stuck trying to molt out of it's first skin (when a Mantis hatches it actually has to get out of it's first skin which encloses them like an egg. That's how so many fit inside. I know if I try to help him, I'll kill him, by dismemberment... Trust me, I've tried it before... and that's what happened.
I don't think I've said this here, but quite a few people know this, I found my half-sister, Penny. This happened 5/23/11.
27 May 2011
Mantids 3
On Wednesday I discovered that the container that contains both eggsacks, had another hatching. Then I saw it... I saw the container was partially unzipped... with a decent ammount of mantids outside of it. I released the ones inside, and rounded up all the ones I could. I left 10 inside, fed them along with the last three!
6 out of those 8 are now dead (1st container) so I added two. yesterday I added another. So there's now a total of 5 alive in that container, with 6 dead. Out of the original 7, 5 died (the 8th one I added died sometime yesterday or later on Wednesday. Those 5 that remain look vary good. The three I added were ones I found outside on the wall of our garage. I even nicknamed those 5 (I had nicknamed the 8th one that died, sticki).
Shorte- Named such for the fact his antennas had both seem to been broken off to half of their normal length. [one of the two added wednesday]
Swift- A bundle of energy, moves much more then the others. Very energetic, but could be bad if he's ever short of food. [one of the two added wednesday]
Mini- both antennas are the same length as Shorte's shortest one (one of Shorte's is noticably shorter then the other) [the one added yesterday] (I may change his name)
Mystery- A strange little guy, on Tuesday (or was it Wednesday) he would catch a bug, but then released it, without eating it. I obserbed him do this at least 3 times. His sticky pads that extend past a mantid's claws seemed to me stuck up into his claw. But that's fixed now. So strange... one of the two of the original 7
Pheonix- a firery tempered Mantid. Only one other Mantid I ever had can rival his temperment. He caught one bug, after eating one, saw a bigger bug, caught it and "attempted" to eat it. The big bug was too much, and he became full and dropped it.
6 out of those 8 are now dead (1st container) so I added two. yesterday I added another. So there's now a total of 5 alive in that container, with 6 dead. Out of the original 7, 5 died (the 8th one I added died sometime yesterday or later on Wednesday. Those 5 that remain look vary good. The three I added were ones I found outside on the wall of our garage. I even nicknamed those 5 (I had nicknamed the 8th one that died, sticki).
Shorte- Named such for the fact his antennas had both seem to been broken off to half of their normal length. [one of the two added wednesday]
Swift- A bundle of energy, moves much more then the others. Very energetic, but could be bad if he's ever short of food. [one of the two added wednesday]
Mini- both antennas are the same length as Shorte's shortest one (one of Shorte's is noticably shorter then the other) [the one added yesterday] (I may change his name)
Mystery- A strange little guy, on Tuesday (or was it Wednesday) he would catch a bug, but then released it, without eating it. I obserbed him do this at least 3 times. His sticky pads that extend past a mantid's claws seemed to me stuck up into his claw. But that's fixed now. So strange... one of the two of the original 7
Pheonix- a firery tempered Mantid. Only one other Mantid I ever had can rival his temperment. He caught one bug, after eating one, saw a bigger bug, caught it and "attempted" to eat it. The big bug was too much, and he became full and dropped it.
23 May 2011
Mantids 2, other things.
Well it actually looks as if I might have been a bit optimistic, I can already see three mantids that will die within the day. They weren't able to catch any food for their first meal. Two of 8 (yes eight now, after discovering a single mantid in the other container where both eggsacks are now placed) look extremely good. If any survive I'd put my money on one of these two, specifically one of them, who after I put insects in caught one, ate it, caught one, then as he held that one caught another large one. He dropped the smaller one he was eating, though he didn't finish the large insect which was a bit more then he could eat at once.
Also thank you facebook. The reason why soon to come, once I'm sure, and have established communication.
Also thank you facebook. The reason why soon to come, once I'm sure, and have established communication.
22 May 2011
Mantids, blendon woods.
My dad and I went to blendon woods, which is less then 2 minutes from our house. We saw a guy down as well, and saw the firetruck from station 29 arriving as we left trying to find a path to walk. Hope the guy's ok. Firestation is actually closer to us then blendon woods is. Eventually we found a path.The first thing we saw was a this strange fungi
we walked awhile, just talking, and observing, and eventually made our way to this lake, where the closest you could get was shelters. On one of the windows I saw this spider, Nice and big webweaving spider.
There was a bank on the far side, and a few geese were sitting there. In the shelters they have some viewing telescopes. I used one of these to look at one of the geese, then put my camera up to it, and ta-da, we have a picture. It tuned out a lot better then it would've had I tried zoom with my camera instead.
This is a picture of a clearing we came across, when we were coming back. We apparently missed it on the way there. It was starting to getting cloudier outside.
A day I had been long waiting for arrived! The day the first mantis' hatched. This is one mantid on my finger, this was one of seven I kept. Sadly I'm guessing arounf 3 won't make it to their first molt. This is just from my experience with them in general. I don't even know if one will survive until adulthood. It's not an easy task to raise them all the way to adulthood.
This is a rainbow. God's sign that never again will the earth be flooded, like in the great flood.
we walked awhile, just talking, and observing, and eventually made our way to this lake, where the closest you could get was shelters. On one of the windows I saw this spider, Nice and big webweaving spider.
There was a bank on the far side, and a few geese were sitting there. In the shelters they have some viewing telescopes. I used one of these to look at one of the geese, then put my camera up to it, and ta-da, we have a picture. It tuned out a lot better then it would've had I tried zoom with my camera instead.
This is a picture of a clearing we came across, when we were coming back. We apparently missed it on the way there. It was starting to getting cloudier outside.
A day I had been long waiting for arrived! The day the first mantis' hatched. This is one mantid on my finger, this was one of seven I kept. Sadly I'm guessing arounf 3 won't make it to their first molt. This is just from my experience with them in general. I don't even know if one will survive until adulthood. It's not an easy task to raise them all the way to adulthood.
This is a rainbow. God's sign that never again will the earth be flooded, like in the great flood.
21 May 2011
got me
Well my parents got me, I didn't see the surprise birthday party coming, until my dad told me.
Very nice though. I also got a camera a Olympus FE-47. When we go on a vacation, this will come in extremely handy, plus now my dad can have his camera back ;). Also I got an xbox 360 kinect. I will definetly be using that. I didn't want to go unwrap present, because I don't particularly like doing that in front of other people. I was also playing on one of the arcade games in the community center (the same one I stayed up all night in around a week ago). Christian, my cousin, decided it'd be fun to force me to come by turning it off while I was in the middle of playing......
...not funny...
...ok maybe it was for her
though I did surprise her later by sneaking up and saying "boo" a few times. hee hee. She had a great reaction :P and squealed a little bit. She should've known I get her back somehow, for turning off the game, even though if I had been in her position, I would've done the exact same thing... :D
I did surprise her earlier like that as well, but she did smack me in the back of the head for it. Heh, I deserved it lol. It's all in good fun though.
Very nice though. I also got a camera a Olympus FE-47. When we go on a vacation, this will come in extremely handy, plus now my dad can have his camera back ;). Also I got an xbox 360 kinect. I will definetly be using that. I didn't want to go unwrap present, because I don't particularly like doing that in front of other people. I was also playing on one of the arcade games in the community center (the same one I stayed up all night in around a week ago). Christian, my cousin, decided it'd be fun to force me to come by turning it off while I was in the middle of playing......
...not funny...
...ok maybe it was for her
though I did surprise her later by sneaking up and saying "boo" a few times. hee hee. She had a great reaction :P and squealed a little bit. She should've known I get her back somehow, for turning off the game, even though if I had been in her position, I would've done the exact same thing... :D
I did surprise her earlier like that as well, but she did smack me in the back of the head for it. Heh, I deserved it lol. It's all in good fun though.
20 May 2011
Vaction?
I asked my dad a few days ago if we could go somewhere. He put up Chicago as a possibility *shudders*, Chicago's a big city, so no thank you. So I made a possibility centered around, a place I think someone should visit in their life...
Niagra Falls. Another place that's close to Niagra Falls also caught my attention, Letchworth state park. It looked really neat, and with nature everywhere. a place not too far away from that looked like another place to possibly visit, Mendon Ponds Park. It was the wetlands that caught me there, I'm still looking around that area though. This vacation would likely take place soon after school lets out. If this actually plays out, I see it as Niagra falls first, visit to Mendon Ponds Park on the way to Letchworth state park. This is only the first possibility I came up with, but I just stated looking, there could be so many more parks I haven't looked at.
might be more of a longshot though...
-Chris
Niagra Falls. Another place that's close to Niagra Falls also caught my attention, Letchworth state park. It looked really neat, and with nature everywhere. a place not too far away from that looked like another place to possibly visit, Mendon Ponds Park. It was the wetlands that caught me there, I'm still looking around that area though. This vacation would likely take place soon after school lets out. If this actually plays out, I see it as Niagra falls first, visit to Mendon Ponds Park on the way to Letchworth state park. This is only the first possibility I came up with, but I just stated looking, there could be so many more parks I haven't looked at.
might be more of a longshot though...
-Chris
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