Winter is here!

 Hello its me Jera! IT SNOWED! Yay! I'm so happy!
Below is me in the snow. Even though snow is cold, and there was a cool breeze, I was pretty warm!

To see how much snow was on the ground, all we did was look at our trampoline!

 It was 3 inch's thick! I don't think were going to be able to jump on our tramp for now. 

Here are 3 pictures of me throwing a snowball at Sienna. Above, I am making a snowball from snow off the tramp. Below, I am throwing the snowball with a lot of energy!

And below the snowball is airborn. Will it hit Sienna?I hope.

Way at the very bottom, is our battlefield, me v's Sienna.

It's dog eat dog in this battle.

A Sunny Day

Hello it's me Jera............ again. OK, you know how my last post was about snow and winter right? Well yesterday my family and I, also Jenna, you remember Jenna, the person from my pumpkin carving post, she is the one in the red, went climbing. Just look at the picture below! The sun was shining, the birds where tweeting, and that includes a hawk I heard over the mountain, as we climbed. This is the Sakha bluffs. A bluff is a ledge of rock that hangs over the side of a  mountain. But  bluffs have to be overlooking a lake or body of water, to be called a bluff, other wise it is just called a cliff.

As we where hiking up the long trail, an Airbus A380 flew over! From this picture you can see there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a perfect day! I think I'm going to collect a whole lot of plane pictures that I took. Then I'll make a post about them with all my pictures in it!

See how sunny it was! There were some clouds after all! I did not realise this until I started to write this post.

Once we had taken in the view, it started to get dark. Up there in the mountains once it gets dark, bears and other dangerous animal come out! So we walked back down the hill to the parking lot. Buddy, (our dog), was running around. He wandered into the forest a little and came back with an oddly shaped stick. We thought nothing of it because we where playing a game called twenty questions. But then I heard my sister yell, " EW BUDDY PUT THAT DOWN!" I turned around to see Buddy holding a DEER LEG! Someone must of been hunting or a wolf or bear must have killed the deer. It is more likely from a the hunting party, because the leg was cut clean off. Hunters don't want the legs because they're useless. They have no meat on them what so ever. I am NEVER  going hunting! It's just so mean. I feel sad for that deer :( But I guess that's life.

Anyway, that's basicly all I have to say.

Stay tuned for that plane collection.( Mumbles to myself ) "Now where am I going to find a lot of planes?"

-Jera!

HO finds

Smello people! It's me Jera again!

  A few weeks ago, I went to Peachland to a HO scale model train convention!

A few posts ago, I told you about my HO scale trains that were coming from Vancouver. Well since I had already started my hobby, we went to see if we could buy some more trains.

Above is the display where they had some trains running around.
 I am a giant about to destroy all of the buildings! mwa hahahahahaha!

We also got TONS of free stuff too! I got about 12 engines and approxitmately 20 cars! Unfortunately, about 6 of the engines don't really work. But they're still good for show!
Above, a freight train is coming into R.A.C.F. station Lancaster.

And above, we have Central Park, where an old steam engine as been turned into a playground.

-Jera

This was a short post!

Fall

Smello,there young chap, it's Jera here with a new post!

I will be showing you things that I've been doing over the weekend.

Above and below, I'm cooking homemade potato chips! All you need is a sweet potato, vegetable oil and salt. You pour the oil into a pan (like the one in the picture). Then heat up the stove to max temperature. To make sure it is ready put a small potato peeling in to see if the oil is ready. If it is, you should see the edges around the peeling bubble. Then you can cut up your potato slices, BUT... you must peel the potato first! Then cut it up into small thin slices and throw them in.

WARNING, OIL WILL BUBBLE AND CREATE HOT OILY FLYING SPARK THINGYS. PLEASE WEAR GLASSES AND LONG SLEEVES TO PROTECT YOURSELF!!! 

You have been warned.

As you see in the picture above I am cooking, wearing sunglasses! do you like them?

  After you have put some salt on the chips,you have to wait 30 MINS until they cool off. This lets the salt really get into the chip..................30 MINS LATER.................... Now you're ready to eat! Enjoy!

Its Fall here in Canada! As you see in these pictures there are a LOT of leafs.These are all from our walnut tree in our backyard! My sister and I raked all the leaves into one huge pile. Since we did a GREAT job, we started to think we should start our own lawn care company! Here's our ad.
CALL K.L.C.A. That's right, this is the kids lawn care company or as my dad wants it to be,
LAWN AND ORDER. Get it ?

Do you see buddy, our dog, in the left corner? He.....sees......Bill. He can smell him.  You will find out who Bill is soon.

As a dog would say it SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!! Do you see it in the picture above? This squirrel was discovered yesterday, living in our walnut tree! He has made a small home in our neighbour's shed roof. This critter gets around buy hopping from branch to branch, and has a place for everything!

Above this little squirrel (we named him Bill), is jumping from branch to branch to get to his home. Below when my sister and I were raking, we came across Bill's storing unit. He must have thought that this abandoned BIRD house was part of the tree that it is perched on. If you look really closely you can see the nuts he has stored in there for the Winter.

Above is Bill sitting in his home, eating an acorn........ or maybe a walnut?. Aint he cute?

Since Sienna and I did SO much work, Mum made hot chocolate and well......... we drank it?

 

Above is THE BEST PICTURE EVER OF ME!!!!!!!But this picture was not meant to be taken. I was turning when my mum took the picture. But its still an awesome picture:)!

 

- JERA!!!!

Hotel transylvania

   

 Hotel Transylvania is not a place where we went (just to let you know).

 Hotel Transylvania is a movie that we watched at the new theater last Sunday.        

              
Above is a picture of Hotel Transylvania.

For this post I am going to give you a sum up in pictures of the movie. It was a really good movie.

 

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                                                         (ripple affect)
It all started on a chilly, cold morning in Transylvania.......









Everything was normal. At this time of the year Count Dracula, (pic below)



the owner of the motel, was setting up for his daughter's 118th....... oh and I almost forgot the one reason that this movie has an intersting plot is because only MONSTERS are allowed in the hotel, not people. Since Mavis, (Count Dracula's daghter) is a vampire which is why she is having her 118th B day.
Anyway where was I ....... oh yes, it was Mavis's birthday party. Here's Mavis


And all the mosters where coming for the party.

The planning was going great. Everything was perfect, until....... a human arrived.













Dracula is frightened of humans. A long time ago when Mavis was just born her mother was killed by the villagers who hate vampires.
But remmber that was over 100 years ago. Now we're in the 21 century. Dracula built the hotel to protect monsters from humans. When John (the human) came, Dracula tried to dress him up to look like a monster.


And every one fell for it!

In Dracula's family there is one rule, "Vampires are never allowed to leave the hotel." But Mavis wants to go exploring and see the world. She wants to go to, "Hawaweewee," (Hawaii) most of all!


Her dad did not want to let her go.... even though he said that she could.

While they where setting up for the party John kept getting in the way and attracting more and more attention!
Unfortunately, he is a human and can not be at the party. Then the momsters start to like him beacuse he brings life to the hotel. Because all the monsters are dead.

Mavis falls in love with John. But they can't be together as he's a human and she's a vampire!.......










But Dracula does not want this. So he tells John that he will kill him if  he he doesn't leave.
Yep you got, he stayed!


In the end he wants to be with Mavis. But he did not want to get killed so he told Mavis that he hates monsters! Then he heads for the airport.












But Dracula rethinks what he said and wants the two together afterall.
So he catches up with the plane! Five hundred feet IN THE AIR!













Dracula turns the plane around and gets the two together again.
Finally, they get to go to Hawaii!



                                                                             !THE END!

Overall, I think this movie is one of my favs. It had a lot of adventure and fun and was very entertaining.

Jera

!?!Halloween!?!

                                                                        HALLOWEEN

  Hey everyone. It's Halloween here in Canada. Halloween today, is a fun holiday, mostly for children. It has roots in ancient religions and folklore. including paganism, ancient Roman religions, early Catholic Christianity, Irish folklore, and even British politics!

Children and adults enjoy this holiday on Halloween night by wearing funny costumes and eating candy. As we may think of this holiday (I know I do) as a time to go out have fun and be in the dentist waiting office the next morning.But for some conterys this holiday is the time where the dead rises and they have funarals and give food to the poor.                  .

This is my pumkin before I carved it.

Did you that carving pumpkins came from Britain? They used to believe that the scary faces on the pumpkins would frighten away ghosts and other horrid creatures.
Also one of the reasons we get candy is because we say, " Trick or treat." But back in the olden days  people really did play TRICKS to get candy. Now our only trick today is knocking on a door and dressing up in funny costumes. The word Halloween really means all hollows eve. The evening when all of the sprits rise from the dead.
Anyway beside the history,for Halloween this week me and my sister and her friend are all going trick or treating on my grandma's (Mets mama) street. It's funny, that's the one street in ALL of Penticton that gives out the best and most candy.

This Sunday my sister and I carved pumpkins........... oh and her friend, Jenna, was there too.
 Here are some pictures.

 This year instead of giving out candy were giving out hot coco because who doesn't like a nice warm cup of hot chocolate on a cold night? Oh and I also forgot we are also adding ghoast or pumkin shape mashmellos. 

O Train model railroad

Hi, you're probably wondering what these two pictures of a model railroad are doing on my blog? Well the answer is, I have a interest in passenger planes and model trains...... hey that rhymes. 

These here are two of my pictures from my model railway. Below is the work area in my O scale model railroad and above is a different train on the mountian side. Both of these trains are in pretty good condition but unfortunately they where last used in 1924. Which makes them really, REALLY old and they dont work 100%. Don't get me wrong they work ok, but not good for a whole model railway just for someone to set it up on the ground and play with it. That is why I am selling this whole set (not the table and houses plus cars) on ebay or locally. But I don't just want to let the table go to waste that's why I have ANOTHER model railway, that I bought on ebay, coming from Vancouver. This time it won't be O scale, it's going to be HO scale ( O scale trains are about 3 inches high / HOs are about 3 cm high) So the whole model railway will be converted to a smaller scale. Plus the good news is that the trees and houses are HO so I don't have to buy any more of those. I can't wait to get my trains from ebay this week. 

  

HO scale trains

Guess what? Well you probably know by the title. I GOT MY HO SCALE TRAINS YAY!!! They came about 2 weeks  earlier than I would have expected.  When they got here I tore the box open. Let's just say that box is in a better place now. But the trains were so cool. I got 2 steam locomotives. 1 UNION PACIFIC modern looking train. And I have a SANTA FA coming soon. If you do not know any of these train you can look it up . They came with 6 cars ( not like the car that you drive but a train car) The cars where a coal car, 2 oil cars one with shell printed on it, a cabouse, a box car and a fright car. I have been playing with them every day and soon I'm going to put them into my model railway. Right now they're down in our basement where I can play with them. The set also came with a station, people, signs and trash cans.

This picture here is one of my trains that doesn't work but I am replacing it with one that is by the same company that does work.

Here is the small town in Train Village.

 And below is the train station for the village.I still haven't come up with a name for the station yet though.                                                                          



Vancouver Aquarium

About a month ago, we went to the Vancouver Aquarium.  Here, I am looking into one of the many fish tanks at the Vancouver Aquarium. These are tropical fish that live in the  tropics. My fav fish in this tank are the little yellow ones. You can comment about which one is your fav fish. I would love to know.

Here is Jack the porpoise. He may look like a dolphin but he is really a porpoise. He was SO cute, he came up to the window and said, "Eee eee."



The dolphins put on a show for us at the aquarium and did tricks like the one in this photo.They also did back flips and really high jumps.There was also a splash zone but it was so crowded we had to go higher in to the stands.

I bet you think this croc is fake right? wrong. This croc from Africa and just manly sits there all day staring at us. My friend said, " I don't believe that it is real!" so I said," Ok you can jump into the cage and kick it to see if its plastic." He looked at me and said, "I'm good.''

Here is another on of my fav fish. Its also tropical.

Even though it is called Vancouver Aquarium they also do have butterflies and birds.This is one
of my fav birds that was there. I would tell you the name if I knew it of course. I'm not too good with names.

Here I am holding a...... you know the expression on my face doesn't look too good I think I am concentrating on the butterfly......anyway here I am holding a Monarch butterfly. His name is Bill.

...eeeeeeeeep snake

These are some of my friends. Once again we all have bored looks on our faces. I'm the one in the purple jacket holding the bag. Next to me is my friend, Liam, next to Liam is his brother Alex, and next to him his twin brother Chad. Wearing the blue dress is my sister, Sienna. We are standing in front of BOX jellyfish. They are the most DEADLY jellyfish in the whole world. They only live in the tropical areas near Australia.Also in other places around the Pacific!

After we left the Aquarium...........

...my sister and my dad and I are looking for shells. Unfortunately, we could not find any because the tide was coming in fast. See the futherest rock in this picture? I was standing on that about 2 minutes before this picture was taken, I could get off without getting my feet wet.We did not find any shells but I did find something a bit better.

I found a crab shell! This here is not a dead crab. When a crab gets too big for it's shell, it sheds it like a snake. This shell must have been washed up from the ocean. I'm holding the shell like that because see the two white things on top there sea anemonies and I don't want to break them because they have a good for effect.

Here's our post which was on the on the Youlearn blog: http://www.youlearn.ca/dl/YouLearn_DL/Home/Entries/2012/9/24_Sleeping_with_Belugas.html

Last week, we went to the Vancouver Aquarium for an overnight camp with 30 other homes schoolers and their families. We slept with the Baluga Whales. Don't worry we didn't drown! We were sleeping outside the tank. After the Aquarium closed the doors for the night, we had a fun time exploring the marine labs and touching sea stars, sea urchins, crabs, anemones and snake skins. Then we were allowed to wander around the Aquarium and check out the other creatures in their habitats. When the lights went out the Belugas started to perform as if they where saying, "Watch meeeeeeeee".  It was amazing to sleep listening to their sounds as they swam. We didn't get to sleep until 1 am. Next morning we met the dolphins and watched them perform tricks. Our favourite was a porpoise (his name was Jack) who came up to talk to us, only we did not understand him. Oh well! We had a great trip!

                                                                                                             ~ Jera and Sienna Nichols, yr. 7