Friday, March 11, 2011

Connor: Blog Of The Day

The Toilet Garden

One warm summer day a young man decided to start a garden.  Due to the fact that he couldn't think of any where to start a garden he thought that the local dump might work.  He chose two decrepit, old, and very ugly  toilets as the area for flowers.  Next to the toilets was a plot of land with no trash whatsoever.  The young man, who knew this would be as good a place as any in which to plant trees.  The seeds, all planted, started growing a tiny bit.  The man came back every day to look at his garden and add more plants.  Each plant was placed with tenderness and care.  He watered his garden every day right before leaving.  Three years passed with this constant routine of planting watering and admiring his work.  The trees were starting to look more beautiful and would occasionally tell him, as if by magic or illusion, when there were weeds in his perfect garden.  Another year elapsed and the townspeople started caring for the garden as well.  The man waited until weekends to see his garden again.  One day the man and his girlfriend got married in the garden.  On that day the garden was filled with apples, grapes, tomatoes, and oranges.  Two years passed and the man visited his garden with a child of exactly one year old.  The garden had started to shrivel up due to the cold on that winter day.  After multiple years the garden grew to a great size and everyone knew about it.  The year following that the man died in a car accident.  The garden started to die, as if knowing that the man who had made sure it would be protected would never return.  After nine more years weeds had taken over and the plants were dead and gone.  The people didn't even remember what the garden once looked like and turned it back into a dump filled to the brim with garbage.  The End

Connor: Word Challenge

Nathaniel Hawthorn uses multiple allegories in The Scarlet Letter.
The revolution was anterior to the time when Nathaniel Hawthorn wrote The Scarlet Letter.
During the Civil War there was much antipathy between the North and South.

Avery: Blog Of The Day

The Funeral

One day there was a blue bird named Lacy. Lacy had a big family and lot's of friends. Lacy loves pulling pranks on people. She waited a whole month with out doing anything. Then, on April Fools Day. Lacy started pranking again. The first thing she did was popping up behind people and scaring them. Next she tied dollar bills to a string and made people fallow it into the pond. Then she made farting sound when ever someone sat down. Everyone got mad at Lacy. She pulled to many pranks on people and they said that she might hurt someone soon. She decided to pull one more prank. She put fake blood in a pickle and bit it. Everyone thought she was throwing up blood. Suddenly she started choking for real! She tried to spit it out and swallow it. Nothing worked. All of a sudden, she fainted. She wasn't breathing or moving. Her family decided to have her funeral in the great toilets of doom. They were filled with flowers and bees and ants. They put her in a coffin and buried her in the ground.
     " Ha! I so tricked you guys!", Yelled Lacy.
     "Wait. Guys? CRAP! They buried me already!", yelled Lacy again.
     " Help! Help! I was faking! Help me!", Lacy kept on screaming for help.
The end! or is it?!

Daddio: 3/11/11 Blog of the Day

Write a story about the following picture:

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Avery: Word Challenge

Her birth was anterior to her first birthday.
The director used a sunset as an allegory for his romantic dinner.
I feel antipathy when ever I see one of my enemies.

Avery: A story

Nichole The Bad
By Ava
Nichole always wanted to be the person in charge. She wanted to control every on in her big family of 11 people. She was in fact very bossy and sometime to much. She had her own room, that used to be her Mom's office. Her mom is a teacher, working at Marble Falls junior High. Her two oldest brothers have moved out of the house and had gone to collage. The other seven kids lived at the house. All of the kids, but Nichole and her little brother, Francis went to public school. Her mom taught some of the kids. Nichole stayed home and did school there while she babysat Francis. She was lonely most of the day and she got pretty bored. One day while she was in her room with Francis, extremely bored, she thought she should do something different. She ran across the street to her grandmother's house with Francis and got in the golf cart. She held her brother in her lap and decided to drive around town.
     " I want water Niki. Now!", yelled Francis.
     " Just a sec. We can get some water from a water fountain at the park.", she responded.
     " The park? Yeah!"
     Nichole drove to Johnson Park in the golf cart just for water. She parked the cart in the little parking lot and took her brother to the fountain. She picked him up to help him reach the water.
     " I peed.", stated Francis as he jumped around.
     " I don't care. You wear diapers.", responded Nichole.
     She drove back home and put the cart back. She walked back home and found her mom standing at the door. Francis ran to his mom and told her all about the park.
     " Nichole!", yelled her mom.
     " What? we had fun.", said Nichole in a rude tone.
     " You are grounded for a week! No Tv, video games, Friends or family. I want you to stay in your room."
     Nichole went out to her room stomping with anger. She sat down on her bed and started writing in her journal.
     Well today wasn't as fun as I planned. I decided no school and to go to the park in the golf cart with Francis. Mom grounded me for a week! I can't do anything in here! It is a tiny room. I don't think I'll live.
     Five minutes later Nichole decided to be bad. She went inside and sat in the living room and watched  Happy Tree Friends with her siblings. She watched a whole episode without her mom seeing her. She got up and went to the kitchen. She grabbed her Dad's candy and her mom's fudge pops and ate them all. While she was in the middle of her first fudge pop, her mom walked into the room.
     " Hi mom!"
     " Get out of the house right now."
     " Into my room okay."
     " No. Take these boxes, pack up your stuff. Put it into the wagon and leave the house."
     " What?"
     " Now!"
     " Why?"
     " You brought home the wrong kid, Nichole! You lost Francis! I just found out! It was a different little boy!"
TO BE CONTINUED

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Mommio: Word Challenge

Write a sentence for each word.  
Anyone who can come up with a complete sentence that makes sense for each word gets a reward!

allegory- (noun) symbolic representation
The novelist used the stormy ocean as an allegory for her life's struggles.

anterior- (adjective) preceding, previous, before, prior to
Following tradition, the couple's wedding was anterior to the honeymoon.

antipathy- (noun) dislike, hostility, extreme opposition or aversion
The antipathy between the French and the English regularly erupted into open warfare.

Connor: Blog Of The Day

First we need to remove the dead plants from last season and the weeds.  Second dig out a hole and bury seeds in said hole.  Third bone meal should be sprinkled on the ground.  Fourth we water them with the sprinkler and mulch them when they start growing.  Fifth we harvest them at the point where they are ripe and ready to be used in any recipe.  Sixth we use them in some of our meals and feed some to Bowser, our bald rat.

Mason: Blog Of The Day

1. First we weed and pick out the dead plants
2. we get seeds and make a hole twice the size of the seed
3. then we sprinkle bone meal on the ground
4. then we water them when they grow we put mulch on them
5. then we pick the weeds and water them

Marney: Blog Of The Day

1  You put all the soil down on the ground
2  You make the rows and walk way
3  you dig a hole as big as the pot
4 you hold the plant and turn it upside down
5  you take the plant out of the pot
6  put the plant in the ground
7 you bury it
8 water it
9 put mulch on it
10 pick weeds

Avery: Blog Of The Day

1- Fix up all the dirt rows and sprinkle a little bone meal on top and then rake it all together.
2- Plant the zucchini and cucumber on mounds, put three seeds on each mound. The holes have to be the size of the seed, and that counts for all the seeds you plant.
3- Around the back fence plant peas, they will grow up the fence.
4- In the the back rows behind the back fence, plant two rows of potatoes and the rest carrots.
5- In near the front fence plant some lettuce and radishes.
6- Also plant some red or white onion in the middle rows.
7- If you plant anything with a dirt like pot, you make a hole the size of the pot and then put the pot in the ground. If the pot is plastic you turn it upside down and take it out.
8-  Next, water it for about 15 minutes. You should water it every day.
9- once a week you should weed the garden and take care of it.
10- you have a pretty garden.

Gabe: Blog Of The Day

#1First we have to put bone meal on the top of the soil then rake it in.
#2 When you plant zucchini and cucumber you plant it on a mound and you stick your finger in the dirt the depth of the seed and you put three on one mound.
#3 To plant the lettuce you draw two straight lines in the row and sprinkle the seeds in it.
#4 To plant a peat moss pots you dig a hole the size  of the pot then you put the pot in the hole and you fill the hole.     
#5 Water it every day.
#6 Mulch the crops when they get big.
#7 Pick and ho the weeds once a week.

Daddio: 3/8/11 Blog of the Day


So it's getting close to planting time for our garden again.  For today's post, I want you to give step-by-step instructions on how we go about planting our garden for spring.  What do we have to do to the soil?  What do we do to plant?  Are there any other steps we need to take to make sure we have a good crop this year?

Monday, March 7, 2011

Connor: The Strange Convict Of Gotham City

Within the oldest prison still used in the city of Gotham sat a strange man.  The only thing known about this man is that he was a convict.  No one knew how old he was or how long he had been in prison.  Some said that he was there when Gotham was founded.  Others insisted that he was there only after Batman showed up.  In any case this strange inmate had lived there for a while.  The cops who kept a watchful eye over the inmates noticed his sleeping habits were odd.  He would sleep through the morning when the other inmates were eating breakfast.  He would sleep through lunch time.  Although he was wide awake at night.  His dietary habits also confused people.  He would have three steaks at night, although when he finished the steak had lost the red color and wasn't as juicy.  The oddest thing about the man was the color of his eyes.  His eyes were a shade of green during the day, when woken up by an extremely loud noise.  Yet his eyes were a distinctly bright shade of yellow at night.  One night he woke up and looked across the room at the officer siting down with the keys to his cell.  He focused on her eyes as they looked around the area.  The cop had started to wonder why the chief had put her on watch duty.  She started to think that it was just to make it seem like he wasn't dating her.  Her eyes moved toward the man.  She stood up and walked over to him with no control over her body.  She handed him the keys and said "Here, master.  You can use these to escape the prison."  With that she sat down and suddenly couldn't remember anything that just happened.  The next night the another officer was on watch duty.  This officer was a man with big arms.  The criminal stood near the bars and cried out about how he wanted to die.  This was a mere plan to get the cop to leave.  The inmate unlocked the cell door and slipped out quickly locking the door behind him.  The power went out suddenly and never came back on.  The criminal saw the officer come in with a doctor.  The man looked at both people and saw that they both had good blood.  He attacked the officer first who was to busy talking with the doctor to notice his yellow eyes.  The doctor was afraid because the cop that was with him just dropped dead.  The criminal escaped while the lights were out drinking the blood of every officer, except for one.  The woman who was on guard the previous night was spared.  He said to himself  "Now that I return to this world I should have a proper name.  I will be called The Bloody Fang.  Yes that will be my evil name."  With that he took flight in search of a castle and a coffin.  He landed in the graveyard and saw an old coffin from around the time of the founders with his true name written upon it.  The writing on the front of the coffin read James.  The Bloody Fang took the coffin and flew to the oldest building in Gotham.  The Bloody Fang placed the coffin in the center of his new home.  Just after he prepared his home the sun came out.  Knowing that he should stick to his usual sleeping habits The Bloody Fang got into the coffin and went to sleep.  The following night The Bloody Fang took to the sky.  He spotted some people walking around the park.  He flew a bit closer and saw a man dressed like a clown.  The man laughed and said "Let's see the bat try and save people now."  The Bloody Fang flew up to him and asked him what his name was.  The man told The Bloody Fang that he was known as The Joker.  Suddenly The Bloody Fang noticed a building built atop his oldest home.  He knew that regaining his cave would not be easy.  Suddenly he saw a person come toward him.  The Bloody Fang said "So you must be Batman.  It has been a pleasure meeting someone like you.  Although now I thirst for blood.  You can call me The Bloody Fang.  As for what I can call you, I think that should be breakfast."  Batman looked at this strange man and said "Judging from your skin and eye color at the moment.  As well as your thirst for blood.  I guess your a vampire.  Well I will not be your breakfast."  The Bloody Fang flew toward Batwoman and stared directly into her eyes and said "Meet me in my lair, mortal."  With that he flew off and waited at his lair for his takeout.  Batwoman entered the creepy, old, decrepit apartment building.  She climbed the steps and entered the room with the coffin.  She said to The Bloody Fang "I have come to you, Master."  She snapped out of the trance and came forward to hug what she thought was Batman.  The Bloody Fang took advantage of this moment and drank her blood.  After three weeks of sucking blood from people The Bloody Fang had enough mindless vampire followers to create a vampire army.  He said to his army "Today we take back my cave!"  The entire army applauded the idea.  The entire army was sent into combat against Batman and Robin.  The entire army was slain with wooden stakes through their hearts.  The Bloody Fang realized what he had to do.  He flew to the prison and saw the woman who was on watch duty the day before his escape.  The Bloody Fang said to the woman "I wouldn't have been able to destroy the population of Gotham without you."  The woman shed a tear and said "Their all dead.  Everyone I knew or cared about is dead.  It is all your fault, you ugly criminal."  He looked into her eyes, this time not trying to control her mind, and said "I know I may seem evil.  I am not a criminal though.  I need the taste of blood to live.  Before Batman kills me I came here for one last drink."  The woman moved her head to one side and The Bloody Fang sucked her blood.  She became a vampire on the spot.  He said "I never attempted to do you any harm.  I only wanted to kill those who tormented you.  I also had to kill those who Batman trusted.  I love you or loved you I should say.  In a few hours I will alert Batman and what is left of the police force to our location.  They'll kill me and probably you as well.  This is farewell from the very world I lived in for so long.  At least I know that I'm going out in style.  That style being fooling the police into thinking we're at the park.  So will you marry me?"  Asked the vampire.  The criminals all pulled out stakes and prepared to throw them.  The Bloody Fang said "Maybe you shouldn't answer here."  They flew to the lair and landed on the sofa he stole from Batman.  As they sat down and turned on the television the woman, who was now a vampire, said "Yes."  The two vampires lived happily for half a year.  Suddenly as half the year had just finished in walked the Joker.  He pointed the stake at the newborn vampire baby and said "Either one of you dies or this infant dies.  So which of you is it going to be?"  The Bloody Fang walked over to the Joker, opened his mouth and was about to bite his neck.  Stopping before biting the neck he said "Either you put the stake down or you get it.  Oh and by the way I see the second stake you're hiding in your tie."  The Joker dropped both stakes and expected to be let go.  The Bloody Fang said "Honey pick up those stakes."  Suddenly The Bloody Fang turned the Joker into a vampire and his wife stabbed the Joker with both stakes.  The Bloody Fang flew to the top of his home at night and said "Listen to me, Hero of Gotham city!  I have slain the Joker!  I have also given up my unlife of crime!  You can keep the cave, although I would like my original coffin back!"  Meanwhile down in the sewers of Gotham city the penguin and his minions brought the Joker back from the dead with a simple antidote made from the ashes of a vampire.  The End or is it?

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Mommio: Fun Girls Day!

Yesterday the three girls and I had a really fun day visiting with our great friends- the Shaws- in Austin.  It was so nice seeing them after a long time and the five girls had lots of fun ice skating together.  They all just took right off on the ice, and although we all had a fall or two they did it for hours and are already asking to go back. We'll have to do this again soon!



Thursday, March 3, 2011

Avery: Blog Of The Day

Saturday- I want to go BOWLING! :D Here at Lake Country Lanes . I also want a Mario Cart tournament
Sunday- I want to play bored games with the whole family. Maybe we could all play Picturenary and Uno!

Mason: Blog Of The Day

I want to have a family game night and I want to roast marshmallows.
And I want to tell ghost stories and I want to play at the park.

Connor: Blog Of The Day

We should go letter boxing with Franki.  We could also play Myth and D&D.  We  could have a lazy day even.  We could do multiple things together.  We could play Mario Party 2, which we all love playing.

Gabe: Blog Of The Day

Saturday- Family Wii marathon  all day.
Sunday- Go Geocaching in Llano .

Marney: Blog Of The Day

I want to go camping that will be so fun.  I want to do it in nanas back yard.  I want hot dogs for dinner I want to go there at 3:00.  It is going to be so fun.  I want dad to tell one of those ghost story That creeps everyone out. I want coke and I want my family.  The best family every.  It will be great.