The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. - Will Rogers

This quote makes me wonder if the reason that vets are so great is becaue animals don't have as many sicknesses. Or do they? Hmm.... they certainly have different personalities!

Watermellon

I finally picked the biggest watermellon in my garden. For how much work I put into getting them to grow its pretty sad that I haven't eaten much watermellon... but last night I proudly picked and weighed and measured my watermellon. 28 pounds, 19 inches. And its GOOD! I've been scooping out the watermollon and taking out the seeds to make it easier to eat, then I shall gorge myself. After trying to get rid of some by giving it away to other people. hehe. Russ seems pretty pleased with the deal.

Boy, I sure feel smart

I got an exam back today (actually two) and my teacher's coments made me feel realy smart on this one question.

I have open book tests, and my schooling is by corospondance. Well, I read what my study guide said about this poem intitled FOG

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent hunches
and then moves on.

Problem on the Exam:Discuss the poetic elements Carl Sandburg used in "Fog" and the way these elements enhance the poem's meaning.

Answer:
Sandburg used one image in "Fog", and that was the image of a cat, which is quiet when it walks on padded feat, as fog is when it slips in around us unaware at first. And then the fog sits "on silent hunches" like a cat. This enhances the readers understanding of the poem's meaning. The tone of the poem is quiet and the diction is simple and easy to understand. Sandburg uses short words in the first stanza which can be read quickly. The next stanza he uses longer words, which causes the reader to slow down, as a fog makes everything seem slow when it is sitting there.

Teacher's coments: Some good observations


What cracks me up, is my answer is all from the study guide, only rephrased, put in a different order, and so on. Yeah... good observations? I may have expounded on what the study guid said a little... but that's pretty much what it siad. haha. And that poem is so dinky!!!

It is no good to put a temptation in front of another person. It doesn't help them out and it doesn't help you out. Take this quote for instance:

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner


hahahaaha!!!! Sorry, I just thought it was hilarious. And all the blank space on the last psot was bugging me... although I've tried 3 times to get rid of it. :-P

Algae

week 3

Week 2

Phosphate, algae and water mixtre close up of week 2

Ok, they're in reversed order. These first two are week 1 and then after that week 2 will be on top then week 3.

And, for fear of uplaoding pictures and having them dissapear when I try to get it to work...

Week 1 water and algae, and phosphate, water and algae

Week 2 water and algae, and phosphate, water and algae

Week 3 water and algae, and phosphate, water and algae

Every week you could read through the water algae, every week you could not read through the phosphate algae.

The weekend is upon us... and somehow no one in my family remembers I'm not quizzing at this quiz meet, and that Matthew is NOT coaching. I can just imagine how well it would go over all the quizzers.. especially in the top 15. "Smile! Look pretty! Ok... jump when you know it, yeah, that's a good idea and..." "Matthew, I'm trying to make it to internatioanls, now coach me!" "ok, you look pretty, and you look pretty..." *all the coaches are ready to kill matthew*

*shakes head* I'm going to enjoy watching this districts, soooo glad Im not quizzing. hehe.

And umm... nothing more interesting to type up for you guys. So bye.

I feel...

I feel so safe, secure... and... amused?

First off. The other day I was walking through shipping and saw SIX, and when I mean six, I mean SIX, count them, one, two, thre, four, five, six!!! Two, four, six!! I was stuck in shock and just stood there counting them... and wondered how afraid I should be. Right next to the door were SIX fire extinguishers. Knowing that there must be a reason for that, and seeing they were in the shipping department, I decided the shipping department must be a real fire hazzord lately and I requested to be permanently moved to the office. (actually I am kidding. There were six fire extinguishers there... but probably for a differetn reason. ... ... .... I hope.... ... ... Maybe I'll ask about it after all.)

So then today I walked in on an office discussion. Cindy was saying, "I'd rather be in a ditch when it comes rather than be blown to bits." And Jasson was saying, "is the gym made out of the same material as the shop?" and Cindy was saying, "I still say I'd rather not be in the shop." And I was saying, "Wow. I seem to have come in on a very interesting discussion." So Cindy filled me in. "Mary Beth, if there were a tornado coming... where would you go?" And I promply replied, "I'd go to the basment at the house." And they were all eager and excited hearing our house had a basment and decided that if there was a tornado the whole shop would probably follow me over.

Which brought back lovely memories of the fire. *contented sigh* It was so much fun as a kid to have the whole shop in the basment... of course they were calling customers up telling them that we had a fire and their orderes couldn't be processed quickly, and if they didn't want to wait that we'd understand and give them names of other compnaies which could possibly help them. Oddly enough.. even though the fire destroyed basically everything of the old shop, and my parent's first house on this land which was turned into an office... I only have pleasent memories of the experiance.