Cold. Cold. Did I mention Cold?

Yesterday my bus was late by 20 minutes because a headlight broke. So for half an hour, my fellow bus-stop-mates and I waited in the 29 degree weather at 7:00 in the morning. Everything had that white look to it, because of the frost on the roofs, grass, and trees, white sky, and the white fog from everyone's breath. Most of the guys were wearing basketball shorts. There were a couple girls smart enough to wear gloves and ear warmers. I wasn't one of them. My ears hurt SO bad, and it took about half an hour to get the feeling back in my face. It felt SO good to get back on the warm bus, and my face had that tingly feeling, you know that one you get after you come in from playing in the snow? Winter's here! 22 days until Christmas!!!!

A Pretty Darn Amazin' House

Yesterday after the tournament and the boat party were both over, and we had cleaned up the boat, I went to my friend Brooke's house. She has 20 acres of land, a pool, and a tree house that could pass for a real house. The best part was that she has this little mini-Jeep called a Ranger. I got to drive it! I wasn't very good; I almost tipped us at one part, but I thought I was pretty good. Halle was closer to tipping us than I was!

This is a Ranger

This looks sorta...kinda...a little bit...like Brooke's tree house

5 Hour Nite

Last night I had a GREAT time with my 4 friends, including Hannah from Chicken News! It was a lot of fun. We pretty much were outdoors all day. We went on Hannah's rope swing, climbed trees, and...of course played with the chickens AND the new chicks!! The chicks are SO SO cute!! My favorite is Lady Bird. We...um...only got 5 hours of sleep. But surprisingly, I feel great! Just a little bit tired. And only one injury! Just a splinter in Tamie's thumb. And Tamie also fell off the rope swing. But this is the first time I have left Hannah's house completely unscathed!!! It was awesome!!

Just Keep Climbing, Just Keep Climbing...

Today I biked down to the duck pond and climbed the big tree that's right next to it. I brought trail mix and passion tea lemonade in a backpack, in case I got hungry, but I ended up dropping the trail mix from the top of the three, and some of it fell out, but not all of it, so luckily I was able to pick it up and eat some of it. After I left, some ducks attacked what I had dropped. I climbed higher than I had ever climbed before. I got the seat of my shorts covered in sap, but it was still fun. I swear, sap smells so good, they should make, like, car air fresheners out of that stuff. It took me like 20 minutes to get all the sap off my hands, though. I am out of shape on my bike; I had to walk my bike part way up the hill I have no problem getting up in the middle of summer, when I've had practice biking. Oh, well. That's why I can't wait for summer! (It felt like summer today, though. So warm...)

Early Bout of Summer

Today it was 70 degrees!! It was SO nice. We went to a college softball game. Both teams were really good. It was tied 2-2 at the top of the 7th inning (in college softball, there are only 7 innings). With two outs left, the 2nd baseman hits this holy-cow-over-the-fence-into-the-soccer-field home run to end the game and give the home team the win!!! It was SO much fun.

Afterward I went to Hannah's (from Chicken News) house and we played outside the entire day. We went on the rope swing and I got scraped up on my knee, (I don't think I've ever escaped Hannah's house unscathed) then Hannah and I climbed a tree and showed me where she engraved someones name in like 4th grade. Then I engraved something too. It's surprisingly easy to engrave things in trees; the bark was really soft, so I just used my fingernail. We played with the chickens; I held Julia, Pearl, and Lemony, but mostly Julia. This time I didn't have an "AG incident" as Hannah calls it. Julia and Jasper raced, and Julia won! Hannah showed me the "monument" she and Emma built for Charles. It was pretty awesome-tastical.