The outdoors

Being in the outdoors is a blast, even if it is doing yard work. I like just being out in the sun, though not on really hot days because then it isn’t enjoyable. Camping in the mountains, going on hikes, bike riding, and exploring are all fun things to do outside. Then there are other things you can do outside like playing games outdoors and going on walks. Those are all things I enjoy doing outdoors. My family goes on hikes a lot in the summer, and it’s always in a new place so that we can see new places. I’ve been on hard long hikes and I’ve been on short easy hikes. Either way its fun, though I do prefer the long hard hikes myself. I enjoy exploring new areas, like whenever my family and I go to this one park we always go into the trees and find new trails or just go random places in the trees. Whenever I go there I always come out covered in dirt and leaves. It’s really fun to go there and be in the trees in flip flops. Why you might ask, well my cousins and I always slip in them, they fall off and them we have to go find them. So I don’t mind getting dirty at all when I’m outside, as long as I can come back inside and clean up. When outside you can do so many things and have so much fun, only if you believe in having fun.

Farms

I love the harvest season. I mean I love seeing the plants grow too, but it is really cool to see the harvesting being done. Having a farm right behind my house I really get to see it in action. The harvest season always smells good. Some people don’t like it but I love the smell of thousands of onions. It just smells so good, and to see all that hard work of the farmers pay off and to look at what they have grown. It is really cool. How the pumpkins get huge, the watermelons, the corn grow tall and then you get to eat this delicious corn, sweet and everything. The wheat waving beautiful in the wind and then harvested, and when the harvest season comes we get to enjoy what has been grown. To eat freshly grown tomatoes, onions and carrots. And others like apples, cucumbers, zucchini and so much more. It’s just a wonderful time of the year. Smelling the freshly grown things and getting to enjoy them is a big thing. I love many things about farms besides the harvest season. Like I said I like the growing season too. I like to look out the kitchen window and look at the farm. Sometimes I’ll just sit there for 20 minuets and just stair outside at the farm. I like to see the plants grow bigger, taller and see the little buds appear. To see the buds grow into fruits and vegetables, and then you get to eat them. (Note: I’m not writing this in the order of the way things grow on the farm.) When there done you seen the farmers and there helpers outside throwing watermelons into a truck or picking up hay bails, its fun to see growth in progress. Even though the preparing the field and planting goes before the other two things I like that too. Then they go over the dirt many times to make sure it’s healthy. Then they plant the seeds or starters and go along the rows planting them carefully. It is really something to see. I just love living right by a farm and seeing everything that happens.

School sure has been different this year. I mean the new schedule and being in 9th grade. It’s a different style for school in a way. Meaning when you have your grades that you are trying to keep up because they count and you being in High School now! You really have to focus in school now. So for me ninth grade is a challenge in a way but fun in another. A few of my classes are easy and others are like really hard and I’m having a hard time keeping my grades good. Like in Biology I have homework almost every night, and the reason for the teacher is because we don’t see her for a whole day so we should have enough time to do it in that extra day of not seeing her. So in a way we have more homework and in another we don’t. We usually have more time in class now to do homework but in some classes the homework is longer now. The good thing about having an extra day to do homework means that I don’t have to stay up so late doing homework. I guess school isn’t that bad, even though I do stress over it sometimes, but I can’t wait for the 4 day week end coming up for a break after about 5 weeks of school. All I am really hoping for this year is that I can keep my grades up and do well in school. This in some ways can be hard, like when grades start to count you have a hard time keeping your grades good. I don’t know, but I guess I’ll live through school.



(Note: this post probably didn’t even make sense.)

The fall season

So last weekend, I think it was Sunday night my family heard loud noises coming from outside. We went out side to look and we saw thousands of seagulls flying by towards California. It was quite a sight. Within the seagulls there were a few geese. When the geese appeared within the seagulls, they scared them a bit and made the seagulls loose there direction, making them scatter in the air. It war really a sight to see. It was so beautiful that night, the blue sky with the white clouds, and there was a slight breeze. It was the perfect temperature, the bad thing though was that there were mosquitos out and I got bitten a few times. I loved it though and I sat and stood out there for around ten minuets, just starring at all the birds and wondering how it is to fly south for the winter. That is another thing, when they were flying south. That is meaning the fall winter season is coming and that is true. The leaves on the tops of the trees are starting to turn colors and the cotton trees is my families yard are already starting to fall off a lot.

The fall season is always so beautiful (even though all the seasons are beautiful), the weather with a chill and the leaves always so colorful instead of green. The leaves covering the ground and with the holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas coming, there is always a lot of fun going on. Though some people might not like the fall season, I love it!

Okay so here is my try at doing the weekly thing…


Reading is a definitely a thing I like to do. I have a book shelf I got two years ago and 2 and a half of the four shelves are full of books. I’ve got 6 books from Sisters in Time, a series, the whole series of the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. All the books in the Fablehaven (accept the last book which isn’t out yet). The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and quite a few other books that are great.

Right now the book I am reading is “Rocket Boys” by Homer H. Hickam Jr. Even though I’m only on like page 17 it’s actually not that hard of a book to get into. It actually has some pretty interesting history and more in it. I have seen the movie “October Sky” and I really liked it so I know the plot but the book goes into more detail about his family and all.

It’s really hard to say more when I’m only on page 17 but for those who haven’t read it here is the story line: In the time of the 1860’s when a group of boys have a dream to launch rockets into space. They made it possible to have that dreams come true. Now a NASA engineer Homer Hickam tells the story of his youth in West Virginia.

So since I’m not that far in my book I’ll write about a few of my favorite books I’ve read so far. Percy Jackson and the Olympians has to be one of my top favorites. It’s about a boy who has dyslexia and finds out that his dad Poseidon the Sea God. The books are about him being chased by monsters and having to go on dangerous missions. He has to meet people who act like friends and turn out to be traitors. He goes through a lot of trouble and has a lot of people hate him just because he’s Poseidon’s son.

Another series that is my favorite is Favlehaven. That is one of the best books I’ve read. It’s about a brother and sister who help there grandparents with keeping there reserve safe. There grandparents, and a few family helpers know about the reserve and see the fairies and other things. There parents don’t know though because there grandparents just think it’s better. There is four books right now, but the author is writing another, the fifth, and I think it is the last book in the series. It is a fun book and full of adventure.

I have also read the whole Work and the Glory series which has nine books and Gerald N. Lund’s new one Undaunted. They are great books and I loved them. Another good book is Inkheart. I haven’t read the other two but I am planning on it. It is a great book about a girl and her dad. She is trying to figure out a lot of things and gets in dangerous situations. So those are some of my favorite books, though I have a lot more I could write about.

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