The other day Mom, Mae and I went to the Brevard library to get some more books because earlier that day we got a new library card for the Hendersonville library and we only could get two books per person. On the way we stopped at the French Broad (our local river and the third oldest river in the world!) to see the flooding. It had rained for a few days, and the waters were lapping at the parking lot’s edge! The boardwalk can float, normally it is almost flat (it is about 160-degree of an angle) but this time the upper half was covered in water and it was about a 270-degree angle. We left a stick to mark the water height in the parking lot, but I just set it down and did not stick it in. On the way back we found some insane flooding, a few days before it was a campground and now is a lake! Once we got back the stick had drifted off, but it left a mark where I put it. We estimated it to have risen five feet in an hour and twenty minutes. That’s about three quarters of an inch a minute!
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The other day, I went to Jackson Park with my friend Salem. I biked for two and a half hours at Jackson Park; it is this really cool bmx/dirt jump track about a twenty-minute drive from my house. When we got there, we started to bike on a small set of jumps on the right hand track. Once we warmed up we hit the medium size jumps. They are the same height as the far left ones, but the far left has a wider gap. Someone had messed with the lips so it launched you straight up. The highest I got was about four and a half feet off the lip (my wheels got that high)! While we were biking, this old man came and Salem asked what he was doing. He said he was the landscaper and looking at where to put in some trees so there is shade. In the summer it is unbearable without shade! After he left, some guy pulled up with loads of bikes. After about five minutes there was a mob of little kids there biking. There was this one kid in overalls biking the wrong way on the track which I thought was funny!
Here are our top Five chickens and why: we will be rating them on amounts of eggs, color of bird/egg and pure awesomeness 1. Leghorn (Foghorn) she lays 300 eggs per year, plain white and white eggs (Fist place because she lays the most eggs). 2.Alstralorp ( Penguin) lays 250 eggs per year, pure black (used to look like a penguin). Second place because she looks second best (Bully looks the best he is a rooster). 3. Dominique (Twin) can lay up to 275 eggs per year, black and white, and lay brown eggs. Third place because color/amount of eggs. 4. Plymouth Rock (Twin looks the same as Dominique) lays only 200 eggs per year. Fourth because she lays less than other Twin or else they would be tied. 5. Salmon Favorlle (Fish) is fifth with her WACKY looks and 200 eggs per year this little chicken got Fifth with sheer AWESSOMENESS! Last weekend, my friend Levi and I went to an all day concert at Franny’s Farm, (he was in a band I was not). There was a small pond with a canoe, that we could ride in, we spent a while boating around and looking for frogs. Eventually Levi suggested to look under a dock so I paddled over then pulled us under. There were three or four massive bull frogs! I started prodding one in the butt to make it hop towards us and BOOM! It jumped right into our boat! I snatched him up and got soaked in the process. I made Levi pull us out so I could show my Mom, and let her take a picture. After that we showed some people and let him go. We caught another one but we let him go before Mom could take a picture. 0 0 0 *flashback* during the summer, Levi and I went to Franny’s Farm for Andi’s farm camp… “Hey Levi, come here I found a massive frog!” I hollered. “Okay, be there in a second,” he replied. I heard his feet, and they sound like a herd of elephants, “SHHHH!” I yell. “Okay!” he whispered and then he was there. “I’ll grab him,” I said as I moved into position to grab it. The frog must have seen me and leapt towards the water, I lunged but Levi had a loose grip on my feet and I fell in (I soaked my legs and shoes) he pulled me out and we went to go find something else. |
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