Year: 2019

Sleepover fun

Preston stayed over this weekend. We had a fun time hanging at the house and talking all things insects. Mom sent us outside to burn off some energy and we actually played in the old play fort. We never use this anymore. It was nice to hang out in for a while. We ended up heading up to the park for some insect collecting and hiking around. We wrapped up the day without many insects but enjoying our time a lot. I had to scoot off to a SPC event so we dropped Preston home and said good-bye until another day.

  • Hanging with P
  • I have no idea
  • Mom needed fresh air and we needed to run
  • HI!

Halloween Fun

October has been quite a blur for us. We have been on the go doing this and that. 4-H was busy with the Pumpkin Festival. Emmerson, Mom and I spent the day volunteering with the festival. We helped set up tables, organize pumpkins, get that festival ready to roll. I swear we did every job twice but we never complained and just kept trudging forward.

  • E and I getting started
  • Organizing the pumpkin area
  • The carving station we set up
  • Helping kids and families carve their pumpkins
  • Vendor booths and more
  • Our clubs winning scarecrow!
  • On the way home we stopped at Popical for some fresh popcorn treats!

Up next was a crazy afternoon of pumpkin carving. We started the process outside to debut the pumpkins but quickly moved the process inside for the carving. It was rather toasty outside and the pumpkins were getting soft fast. Thankfully they made it to Halloween but were trash the next day.

  • Pulling out the guts
  • yuck
  • Moving inside to the AC
  • My jumping spider carving

Trick or Treating involved having Preston and Gabe over for exploring the neighborhood. P and I dressed as Praying Mantids. G was a gorilla and E was steam punk again. We made the outer streets and a few of the inners before everyone got hot and exhausted. We had a good haul of treats and called it a night. We came home to Mom using the outside projector to project Christmas scenes. It was kinda funny.

  • We made roasted pumpkin seeds
  • My praying mantis
  • P and I
  • Mom and Grandma Susie being silly
  • Es haul
  • My Haul
  • My precious!

4-H Archery

This year I have been volunteering as a archery helper. This means that I haven’t been shooting every time we meet. It had thrown me off my game but I still had a good time at the tournament even if I shot terribly. The senior level distances are super far. I will keep working at it but don’t expect to see me at the Olympics! 

Edible Experience Kitchen Garden

What an amazing fieldtrip! We learned all about sustainable gardening and cooking healthy meals at the Kitchen Garden.   Our guide taught us about what the foundation does, tested our basic food knowledge and then gave us guidelines for our experience. We started by making a cold chocolate drink while we learned the history of cacoa. They we got our kitchen teams. Each table had different responsibilities to bring the entire meal together.
I was tasked with chopping a lot of veg and then workin on the guac. Each team got to flavor the guac how they wanted. I loved the stew we made. The guac was really good but it had too much spice for my liking.  I had a great team and we all worked well together. Everyone divided taste, helped those that were struggling and made it a great experience.