Category: My Adventures

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This week was my big baking adventure at Grandma and Grandpa’s church! Grandma and I have been collecting all the ingredients for weeks. The other thing we did to get ready was to bake, package and freeze the gluten-free scones. Grandma says there’s no way we could keep them from getting wheat flour on them if we tried to bake them at church while all the other bread is being made! I helped put the labels on the packages. Continue reading “Election Day Baking!”

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There’s no question now that it’s fall! We even had snow on October 18. It didn’t last, but when I woke up that day there was snow on the benches on the back deck!

Last Sunday was pie making day at Grandma and Grandpa’s church. I made sure I got to go help! Seventy people worked, mostly peeling and slicing apples. I was happy to see some of my apple picking friends again! Moose-san came too! He especially liked the apple peeling machines. We made sure that the apple slices were just the right size to go into the pies!  Continue reading “Really Fall Now!”

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We took a trip to Niagara Falls this week! Grandma says that Niagara Falls is one of the most famous places for people from other countries to visit. It’s only 90 miles away, but I hadn’t been there yet! Grandma and Grandpa visited Niagara Falls in 1969 and they don’t recall being there any time since! At Niagara Falls, all the water that drains out of the upper Great Lakes and Lake Erie goes into the Niagara River on the way to Lake Ontario. Continue reading “Niagara Falls!”

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The end of last month, we had a big full moon with a lunar eclipse. That means the shadow of the earth got in between the moon and the sun for a little while. Grandma let me stay up to see it. Guess what? The moon turned red! We’re starting to see red maple leaves, too, because it really is fall now!

Continue reading “Apples and Pumpkins!”

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Even though the weather has been really nice and warm, I can see signs that fall is coming! The Golden Delicious apples on our tree in Fairport are starting to turn a little bit yellow and the helium balloon that Karin had during her summer visit is running out of lift. Grandma got me up to watch sunrise last Saturday, and it wasn’t nearly as early as it was in June and July! When the sun comes up, it’s farther and farther to the south every day. Continue reading “Signs of Fall!”

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The weather last week and through Labor Day was very hot — the hottest days of the summer. Then on Wednesday we finally got some rain and now it feels like fall. On Tuesday, Grandma and I went to another park. Tinker Nature Center is in Henrietta, where Moose-san and Tilly live. We went at lunchtime and there was nobody else there! Continue reading “Walks with Trees!”

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There’s a lot to see at Sodus this time of year! The rose mallows and purple loosestrife are in full bloom in the wetlands. Grandma takes me out in the kayak to see them. We’ve had a lot of cloudy sunsets, too, and they are very pretty! And we have a neighborhood eagle! The bald eagle is spending a lot of time sitting on top of a tree at our next door neighbor’s house. We can hear the eagle calling “eek, eek” while it watches for fish to catch.  Continue reading “Out and About!”

 

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There’s been a lot going on the past two weeks! The first week of August, Grandma and I had something special planned for Bill-kun and Karin-chan every day after they got finished at Rochester Museum and Science Center day camp. On Tuesday, we went back to the Strong Museum for forty minutes just before it closed. That was long enough for Bill-kun and Karin-chan to spend the rest of the tokens their daddy had bought them on their last visit and cash out their winnings for prizes. Then we just had enough time to catch the very last carousel ride for the day! Continue reading “Doings and Goings!”

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We have had a lot of very busy days recently! Until today, the weather has been mostly very warm and sunny, with some very hot days the end of last week. On Wednesday, Karin-chan and I helped Grandpa make ginger ice cream after day camp. We put some chocolate mint cookie crumbs in, as well as ginger snap crumbs. After dinner, we played Frisbee in the back yard.  Continue reading “An Even Busier Week!”

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Last week on Tuesday, Grandma and Grandpa and I went to the airport to meet Bill-kun and Karin-chan and their daddy! They had a very long flight from Tokyo to Washington DC, then a short flight from Washington to Rochester. I was really excited to see them! Continue reading “The Cousin Collection!”