Lona's List

1. Grow something (a flower?, a tomato?)
2. Take a long bike ride on the rail trail
3. Write a short story
4. Design a hat
5. Participate in library summer reading program or read items on my randomly selected list (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The People's History of the United States, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Huckleberry Finn, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Education of Little Tree)
6. Fly a kite
7. Attend Hut Building Workshop
8. Invent a cookie recipe and serve it at a social event
9. Make a movie
10. Collect and eat some wild food
11. Camp out and cook over a fire
12. Clean up your room and donate unused items to charity
13. Make a batch of jelly or pickles
14. Do some kind of art project with Aunt Lona (beads?, concrete?, tie-dye?)

So this is Lona's list of things I should do over the the summer. One of the things that is not on the list but am going to be doing with Lona is going to a rainbow gathering.

Day 2

Today we tried to start the boat up, but we were having some trouble. Ysa had to keep on pumping the hand pump since water wouldn't go to the boiler. Pops made me turn the boat around five times as we got steam and lost it. Also, the whistle wouldn't work and we had trouble with the walkie talkies. Later Ysa and I went to the pool but since the water was so cold we just chilled around it (with sunscreen on of course). After the I took a nap and woke up to the sound of our whistle blowing. It was a pretty laid back day, but tomorrow's going to be bigger.

Day 1

We are here in Canada! Ysa and I did our ritual of sitting alone at dinner and then stealing the bread rolls to feed the fish down at Chaffey's lock. It's so hot in our cabin, Hemlock. For those who know the Opinicon, it's near the place where you keep your trailers. We haven't taken the boat out yet, but we do have it docked. Tomorrow we plan to cruise around and them come back in time for lunch.

Arachnophobia

I have been sleeping on the couch ever since a spidor in my room fell onto my bed a week ago. I then freaked out when there was a spidor on the ceiling above my couch. A spidor on my monitor caused a mental breakdown when I couldn't find the spidor again so my mom could get rid of it. More tears were added when mom found another spidor on the stairs. I use the word Spidor for spiders that freak me out, which are most of them.

Bedroom Problem

SPIDORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Things I Like

• PostSecret

• Tom Lehrer

• Lady GaGa

• Richard Dawkins

• Demotivational posters

• Admiral Ackbar puns

• Lasagna

• Nerds

• Fable

• Historical fiction

Technologically Challenged

Headphones stop working, mp3 players freeze, computers get viruses. This stuff frequently happens to me. I go through headphones fast because one side always loses it sound. Every week or so I have to wait patiently for my mp3 player to run out of batteries, because once it's frozen the only thing I can do is wait for it to die so I can charge it again. This is the second time my computer has gotten something major that makes me want to bang my head against a wall. Commonly the internet on my parents' computer would go off when I touched it. I bet I could be a great hacker just by pressing random buttons and watching it explode.