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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chess

ELO rank
Tanx- 1393 ruber-1359
(rank before match)
Tanx||Ruber
==========
d2d4 d7d5
c2c4 g8f6
c4d5 f6d5
e2e3 b8c6
f1d3 e7e5
d4e5 c6e5
d3b5 c7c6
b5d3 c8e6
e3e4 d5b4
d3e2 f8d6
a2a3 b4a6
g1f3 e5f3
e2f3 d8e7
o-o o-o-o
f1e1 d6h2
g1h2 d8d1
e1d1 e7h4
h2g1 a6c5
b1d2 c5d3
g2g3 h4e7
d2f1 e7c5
d1d3 e6c4
d3c3 c5b5
c1f4 h7h6
f3g4 c8d8
a1d1 d8e7
f4d6 e7f6
e4e5 f6g5
f1e3 c4e2
d6e7 f7f6
f2f4 g5g6
g4f5 g6f7
d1d7 b5b2
e7d6 f7e8
e5e6 b2c3
f5g6

time remaining: Tanx-4:15 out of 10:00 ruber-1:23 out of 10:00

oh Fiona, I was listening to your music you made the whole time, it helped me win (and get some determination) So, thanks for helping me ;).

It was a great game on his part. Practice is the only thing that can improve you at chess, and looking at a player's mistakes, and learning from them.

I lost two matches later though, quite badly if I do say so myself.

Here I stand

I wrote a poem awhile back called "here I stand", I may have lost it so I wrote this in school. I like one quite a bit, I think it's my best.

Here I Stand


MPS is a disease
you cannot appease
it never goes away
'till the day
you're under a mound
in the ground
and that day
wasn't far away

12 was the age
the doctor's waged
and agreed
that I'd be
When I'd see
my last day
and pass away
without a say

It wouldn't be kept at bay
and I couldn't get away
some people frayed
and went away
but others prayed
so live I may
and here I'd stay

Then one day
it went away
never to be seen
again in me

it went away
with God's say
by his Grace
and through his might
there's no trace
in my life

I survived
By His hand
'cause I shouldn't be alive
yet here I stand.


It's a poem about my case of MPS, which disappeared due to God's handiwork