The Reed Family Blog

I am so happy to have our little 4-H entomology club. We got to hunt for insects and talk bugs for a few hours. We all chased the same swallowtail for a while. Emmerson was the final catcher of the butterfly! I caught a wasp nest and when I tried to put the wasp into the kill jar it stung me. Ugh! Misery!

We had a blast with our little 4-H Entomology club. We learned all about mouth parts and leg types and then went and collected insects to compare what we could find.

We had a great fun morning with the Farm Bureau building bee-hives that will be used in a display at the Country Fair at the end of October in Pinellas Park. We had over 70 nails, BIG NAILS, to hammer in to build our boxes! Now we have to decorate it and return it for the display at the fair. We have started our paining. There is more to come.

We enjoyed a morning of helping and building for a display that will be at the Farm Bureaus booth at the Country Fair in November. We had a super and a small and had a LOT Of nails to hammer in! A LOT! The room was super loud but we moved to the floor to make our building a little quieter. Now we have to finish paining it and then return it for [...]

Here is me in my karate class. Normally there are no photos. Several of us went to the 4-H leader training and learned about new programs coming up and about conflict resolution. Zoe came down for the day to hang out. We went to Build a Bear and got the new Anolan Vulpix and then went to Cici's for games and pizza. We finally cashed in some of the tickets we had been saving and [...]

I got my black stripe on my blue belt in karate. B and I have been having fun hanging out. We had a fun 4-H meeting about ukulele playing. I really love to play around with the music. Mom took us to Disney for a few days while dad was out of town in California. We had fun in the new Toy Story Land. I loved the new Slinky Dog Coaster. I was not impressed [...]

I got my black stripe on my green belt. So now I am the second ranking belt in the class. I am so excited. The coach uses me as a tackle dummy but it is making my skills improve quickly. E and I finished school early in order to go to Disney this week for a day or two when Dad is in California this week for work. We were supposed to be packing and [...]

We had a weekend at Grandma Susie's. She took us to the the Meg. We had fun at John Chestnut Park hunting millipedes and beetles. I was hot and grumpy by the time we got to the observation tower.I was all pouts. 

We headed to Miami area for some diving. On the way south we explored Big Cypress and Everglades NP. Mom took us on a 20 mile off-road trip through the swamps and ecosystems of the everglades. We didn't see any python or gators but saw lots of huge gar in the water on the stops we made. We also saw the plague of locusts. Well, really it was just a huge hatching brood of lubber [...]

Mom was able to get in the water on day two. She was the first off the boat to make sure she could avoid the seasickness today. We saw more amazing creatures under the sea! We started with a beautiful stingray! We were all excited to see Mom and E in the water with us! Big burr fish! Hard to see but this is a nurse shark! The jellies were HUGE! The motley crew! What a great weekend!