here's something I've been working on for art class, I started drawing in school a few days ago, and now Ive found I seem to focus more when I do, strangely. But it's only been a few days, so I don't know if it does.

well here they are

Age

I calculated what Sprout's age would be. Either he is 156 or 154 days old, depending which eggcase he came from.

I forgot this, the pancakes that are missed, are thrown away.

made my second bow (bow and arrow) yesterday, turned out much better. The first one had a maximum range of around 30 feet, but needed a lot of force to do so. It wasn't very bendy. The second one, has a maximum range of around 80 feet. The string is actually weedwacker line. I have one arrow, which was an arrow I found in the ravine awhile back, it's a practice arrow. So the past few days I've been shooting it, it's entertaining.

Oh both bows were made out of honeysuckle, which if you don't know, tends to break easily, one reason I made the first one so thick, so it wouldn't break. The second one doesn't seem like it's going to break, it's one of a few honeysuckle branches I plucked during winter for this exact purpose... to make a bow.

oh I think a few posts back I said "But now it's nice and clean, except that 10 gallon with the baby guppies, but it's not that bad. (just a little algae in it) :P" I was refering to the amount of algae in it. I may have underexaggerated how much algae was in the 10 gallon aquarium with the baby gups, just a weeeee bit... eheh

but really, it's not that bad. Though still it's not that big of a problem. it's worse then I said above, but It's not That bad...

Is it dad? :P

Today we had pastor's appreciation breakfast, which we got to participate in. Oh did I mention you get to catch pancakes on a plate?



I took the picture, so that's not me catching them. I went 3 of 3, and I got two more later, but it was near the end so those weren't thrown. Actually I don't think I ever dropped one in all the times we did this, though I came close a couple times.

Oh, this would happen to me. We were sitting at a table and all of a sudden the legs of the table come out, and on my side too. Fortunately it lands on my legs (don't worry these were plastic tables, light but strong (I have one in my room, and it's holding a ten gallon aquarium). But as we were trying to put it down, my orange juice spilled :(

I got another one though :)



you had a camara dad, you could've taken one of my face ;)

Maybe I should've predicted 24-0 then. (read previos post's comments to see what I'm talking about)



I also cleaned the aquarium, which I haven't done since... uh... mid July... e
eheh, you're really supposed to do them every month :P

you wouldn't believe how dirty the water gets when you're doing it either, or when you clean the filter in a bucket, dark brown to be precise. I should take a picture next time...

But now it's nice and clean, except that 10 gallon with the baby guppies, but it's not that bad. (just a little algae in it) :P

I had dream last night about senior night, in which we won 17-0, and I scored 4 goals. In actuality we won 10-0 and I scored with 30 seconds left, I was overjoyed, my feeling of building sadness, gave way to joy. Personally at the time I did not think I was going to score, but I believed it anyways, teammates encouraging me. and I thought that was to be the high point of the day but no, I got quite a surprise, by meeting someone I've been chatting to for sometime. I was in disbelief, and when I get into disbelief I look away, walk in a different direction, and look again to make sure what I saw was in fact real. The possibility of something like this crossed my mind, but I said to myself "that's crazy, that would never happen, so stop thinking about it".

Today was far better then my dream, even though I didn't score 4 goals, that surprise was well worth it. It's beyond words, to describe the day. How about Fantastic, Happiest, best day of the year :D

one mantis remains, Sprout is the very last one. I can't believe it's fall already...

I always had the question, why God couldn't take us as we are, why it had to be the way it was, but I get it now.

God is good, what he is not, is evil. evil is what God is not. Now we were given the ability to chose, now in order to have the ability to chose, there has to be multiple things to chose from. Good and evil. evil is the other choice. Now since we've all sinned, we have been tainted, and how can God accept us, when we contain stuff that is not of him. All of the stuff within us that is not of him, must be taken out, before he can accept us. If he accepted us as we were, he would be accepting what he is not, which is evil, but he cannot do this because in order to do this, he would have to accept us, accept evil, accept what he is not, as what he wants. But this cannot be, which makes a whole lot more sense to me now.

If we didn't have a choice, we never would do evil, the ability to do evil is a result of choice...

I'm glad I separated silvette's 6, since all of them died, sadly.

Oh I'm really enjoying reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. I think I realize why things are the way that they are (why we need Jesus' sacrifice on the cross in order to be with God)