Such a wonderful thing. . .

I had to download Picasa to re-size a few pictures for a poster that my mother made.  After fixing the pictures I had a little time to "play" with a few pictures. . . I now love (very, very, very much) Picasa.  The ones I re-touched are below.

One of my favorites!

The first one I retouched. . .

 

It was a lot of fun playing with all of these pictures.  I am so excited that I finally figured out which of the actions only colored part of the picture and turned the rest of it black and white.

The "Rad" snow man

 It snowed a little while back, and then (more recently) last night, but all of the snow from this escapade melted off. 


Don't you just love the hair on this guy?!?!











The full body shot of the "radical" snowman.  I came home from somewhere (I still can't figure out where) and was told to "Take a picture before it melts!!!"

Then the close up of his face.  I love the stick for a nose, and the former-stakes-turned-swords-turned-arms. 

The oven. . .

Today it was raining, so I cleaned the oven. . . it used to be orange, now it is white.

Four SOS pads later. . . 

While there are some orange spots, there aren't as many. . 

Belated post. . .

Well. . . I found the chip to the camera quite a while ago, but I didn't take the time to post the promised pictures.  These are all pictures of planting things in the cold frame and seedlings in the box (I haven't found the pictures of building it though . . )

The box is divided into 15 square foot plots. . .

There are fifteen different plants in the actual box, even though only the radishes, beets, a few turnips, and the broccoli came up. . . 

EEEEK!!! The handle is coming off of the firing strip. . . 

The solution to the window literally flying off of the hinges, a much heavier frame. 

The radishes have two "true" leaves. . .













Well that is all of the pictures of the cold frame. . . so far that is.  I really hope that the experiment works out, especially since I wrote a five page (I think) Methods and Materials section.

Agriscience Part I

This year I decided to take an Agriscience class at the local high school, and stick with it this time.  So far it has been a wonderful experience (although I do wonder about behaviors some times).  One of the requirements of the class is to have an Agriscience project and to compete with it at the Chapter FFA contest.  My "experiment" is to see if a "cold frame" will grow any vegetables at all in our lovely frozen climate.  So far things are going well, except for the fact that it is currently broken. . . but my daddy and I will be fixing that very soon. 

I will post pictures as soon as I can find the camera.

Fair week is over. . .

Well the good news is that everything that I entered in the fair did extremely well, as did everything my brothers entered!  Cody and I both received star choice ribbons in the Market class for sheep and Liam received a high blue.  Daisy (rabbit) received a Best of Breed and Liam won Junior showmanship for rabbits.  I won three state fair ribbons for my pictures and the other two got blues. 

There isn't really any bad news except that my whole family has what we call the post fair week hangover.  Meaning that everything is sluggish and we aren't getting up at 6:30 a. m. so that we can be walking our sheep at 7:00 a. m.

This year I decided to take two Agriculture classes. . . so far I like that decision!

Pictures. . .

 I am really excited!  One reason is that the 4-H lamb weigh-in for the Box Elder County Fair is tomorrow!!!  The other reason is that, via my mom buying a new camera, we have new photo software!  All of the pictures on this post, except the last two, have been experimented with. . . And my other exciting news is that I, hopefully, will be entering photos in the fair tomorrow. . .


A big blue barrel in the side yard. . .

 This is a rose that my younger brothers bought me for my birthday. . .

 Bottled Sunshine

 Sweet-peas!!!!

 My shoes. . . (I am not random at all am I)

 Purple. . . my FAVORITE!!

 Dainty is as Dainty does. . .

I, again hopefully, will be entering this one in the fair tomorrow. . .











This one is here merely because I wanted a little extra sunshine!