BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

Homemade root beer

2 gallons warm water

2 1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon yeast

3 tablespoons root beer extract

mix everything together and poor it in a bottle, and let it sit for 12 to 15 hours.

Put lid on tight, and place in fridge.

I didn't like it. Tasted like yeast. Like a bad burnt marshmallow. Mom says it should have sat longer before tasting.

But if you let it get too warm it will go BOOM!

until next time ~Medium

Rainbows and sand plums

I saw a double rainbow yesterday. Mom couldn't get a picture of that. So she got the single.

Yesterday we went to the farmstead and picked sand plums. I don't like them. They are growing next to the drive way. There was a lot and Large got the most because he was the first one there. My brothers threw plums at me. It hurt.

After we picked plums we went back up to the house. I helped mimaw and pawpaw put the couch into the truck.

I found a gopher snake. It was 3 feet long. It was all gray. It was over by the cattle fence near the pond. It was under a rock. I saw it going under the rock, then I ran. I didn't like the snake because it was too big, and I didn't want to stick around.

I am still pulling ticks off of me today.

~Medium

rabbits

Soon were getting rabbits we don't know if it is 20 or 60. So were building a rabbit hutch. Is it a big hutch. It is made of scrap wood and fencing.

I am excited about the rabbits. They are loose in someones barn. They are going to catch them, and then bring them to the motorcycle shop were my dad works. Then we will bring them home.

I like rabbits. I am going to use pelts to make a hat and mittens.

Medium

Blue Jay

Today I found a Blue Jay. I think it had black on it. It had white on its chest.

Medium

Working at the farm

This picture is of mossy wood at the farm. I took the picture.

Yesterday we went to the farm. I used the machete to chop down the weeds. I don't know what the weeds were called. Then we went into the barn and starting cutting down weeds with jagged leaves, like stairs. I got bumps on my arms. They itched. It wasn't poison ivy, poison ivy has 3 leaves. These weeds were the size of small. After I got bumps I went to the creek, the place were I claimed. I washed my arm that I got bumps on. Me and my brother (large) made a little pond area. It was small. Then Large started making a little river path, and tried to stop the water from rushing in. Then we got some wood that was small about 5 inches long. We watched them go down the water. And I made a path for mine and there was a rock that made mine flip.

I went up to the alfalfa field and walked down to our pond area. I helped with the fencing, I shook it and wiggled it as daddy pulled it.

Then we picked a few mulberries, then we shook the tree and got a lot, a whole container full.

I pulled ticks off of me, but they hadn't bit me yet. When we were going home we got some ice cream. When I got home I pulled off a really small tick on my thigh.

Thank you for reading this, goodbye

~Medium

Zombie

Hi, I'm Medium.

Zombie doesn't always hit trees, most the time he hits your shins. this is my dog Buckets and Zombie. He looks cute. And their on my brother's blanket.

Zombie got his name from a band called White Zombie, they our my dad's favorite band. That's how he got his name. His black on his back part of his body is kind of like wings. And in the picture he kind of looks like a dragon sleeping, without horns. And now he has horns, and one of them has a dent in it. It is funny when he jumps.

You have to feed goats. When they are babies you feed them milk. When they get older you feed them goat food and grass maybe dog food.

You have to make sure it isn't stuck in a fence.

When you have boards for fence, it is better, they don't get their heads stuck.

You need to check their water tank everyday to see if it is full.

Goats do not like rain, probably never will. I think whenever it rains, they don't want to get wet. I will probably ruin their horns, I don't know. You can make a shelter for the goats in a barn and if they are not in there, they can always go under the porch.

Goats like to get scratched between the horns, if they don't like to be near you the will jump up and hat happened with Jack. Jack is Zombie's father.

Thanks for reading, Bye

~Medium

MEAT EATING GOAT

This is Zombie my goat. He likes to bite people's toes. I like his horns. I like that goats have horns. It's cool to watch them climb.

I think it's cool having goats. They can dent things with their horns, like that one goat did to the cop car in Winne Dixie. Sometimes they are afraid of humans.

Zombie had a weird tail when he was born, and now he acts like a dog. He eats dog food, he is always trying to get inside the house. He is always trying to get out of his pen. He really wants to be fed by us, dog food instead of hay.

We shouldn't let him be a dog because he is a goat. If the door is opened he will get in and runs through the house. He will sleep on the couch too.

I like when Zombie hits the trees with his horns.

Thank you for reading this, good bye

~Medium

M for Medium

They call me medium. I like playing games most of the time. And this is my foot.I like my house that I live on right now. The house that I'm moving to is cool.

I'm 8 years old. I'm in the 2nd grade, school will be out this Thursday. I live in Kansas on a homestead. That's a small farm. I like our big tree out back, because it is just right for climbing. I have cats, Salt and Pepper. I like helping milk the cows. I like our turkeys and all the stars at night. I can see the big dipper and the little dipper.

I don't like it when our dog Buckets hits me with her tail. I don't like when my brothers call me names. I don't like cleaning my room.

We are moving to a bigger farm. I like the creek we have there. There is an island in it. I like the ponds when the frogs are out and I like the the underground springs the pop out of the banks of the creek. There is a really cool spot where we shoot our guns, a giant cotton wood died and fell there. I like climbing on it. We play tag on it too.

I don't like at the farm are the vines with the thorns on it and the rats. I don't like when I fall on all the rocks. Mom says they are flint rocks.

I don't like it when I kind of get lost. I don't like the bees that are there. There are too many of them.

Thank you for reading this , bye

~Medium