Astronomy Happiness & New Friends – by Rhiannon
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Hello again!! How are you, after the holiday season is over? Have you noticed that the days are getting longer? Are you excited to start getting more blogs from us again? It’s snowy again today, after many days where it was so warm and sunny here. We’ve all been wonderfully busy here, Papa and Mama Kiva working on the conference and with students, and Mama Loba and I doing Winter type stuff like finally organizing and cleaning the storage area we call the library (because it has so many books in it of course!).
I have been looking though my powerful telescope that Resolute got me, before the moon is up, when I am best able to see stars. I think I may have seen one of the stars on Orion’s belt even! I love astronomy. A friend of mine Sabrina came down that night and we both got to look through the telescope. We had lots of fun looking at stars. She also showed me some constellations I hadn’t seen before, like Orion’s belt. We used both our eyes, the binoculars and the telescope. I also have a “Turn Left at Orion” book and its very nice to use cause it also shows how to spot things with a small telescope. Like Cassiopeia, and the galaxy Andromeda. I am certainly very thankful to Resolute for such a special gift!
It’s very lovely having a telescope, I look in it when ever I have time. Looking at the stars is saticfying it gives me a feeling that I’m that I’m fulfilling something.
I also love studying Folklore, History, and many different kinds of Sicience’s I think I’ll be a scolar when I grow up. Papa has been doing lot’s of history with me, just a little bit ago he got me three history books full of interesting history. I drink up knowledge like a spunge! Still, I think that pretty much my favorite study of all things is Astronomy.
This is a picture of my new friend Che, another home schooled wild child who is going to visit me maybe next month. She sent me a handmade doll me had made me she used pipecleaners to make it. It’s amazing it has beautiful clothes she had sewed on to it and it even has two pairs of shoes one pair yellow and the other purple. I named her Azul. The word Azul is a spanish word, it means blue (Mama Loba teaches me some Spanish), for she has a blue braid with a little wreath on top of it. I have a brightly colored puppet, that’s a duck it’s tiny like her and has purple wings it’s name is Lola. It matches her well so I pretend they’re friends. It’s nice to have her around cause there’s lots of other dolls I have that are her size plus a paper doll I made. So she had lots of friends.
The other dolls names are Nina, Larua, May, and Lissa. All about her size. Papa will put a picture of me and Azul too.
Papa posted another piece of his essay on dangerous Pitfalls. I hope you will all read and benefit from it, because you have to know the pitfalls so you don’t waste time falling into them you know!
I hope every one is having a wonderful winter!!!!
Love!
Rhiannon Cadhla Hardin!
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Swimming!
Spring Nettles!!!
Spring cooking!
Hello!
Hello! Sorry I’ve taken so long to send out another blogpost! I hope you all are doing great!!
Welcome to my next blog post. The picture was taken by my Papa for Mama Kiva’s book, but I’ve had 5 Happy Weeks too!! It’s been a great month, schoolwork has been getting easier, and the river is warm and low enough again to play in! This time I will tell you about my pretend friends, if that’s interesting. Now there is Tabitha Twichit Hardin and her many kittens. She works in my tree house, which has a huge menu where many other cats come to and pick out things from the menu and get them for only 2 cents!. Anyway, she’s a very busy cat. She has kittens to look after because they are always getting in mischief. I also have Sloth and Reasthead and the polarbears. Sloth and Reasthead are these two sloths who are usually just going chitter chater chitter chatter. Now the polar bears are always having pizza, laughing , playing music, having all kinds of fun. I also have all of the pretend friend cats all through my pretend town. I just have millions of them allover the place. I love cats but not all of my pretend friends are cats. I have polar bears, chipmunks. rats. mice. and many others. If I had nothing but cats they would take over the place you know. I love my pretend world very much, it’s a wonderfull place. I love to share it with other people. Have you seen the picture of the cat with the top hat? There was also another cat who was really half human, half cat, There was also another one, too. The other one was white and held a little box. If you haven’t you really should. Its a wonderful picture. If you have Il’l tell you that my papa made it, and he made it for me, which is very very sweet of him.
Look at how steep the trail is driving the jeep in now! SPRING HAS COME BACK! I am very excited about Spring coming back. All the chipmunks have come back. And the flowers came back too. It got all sunny again. And the chipmunks are just so cute. They will just sit on a log and wag their tails and wash their paws. Spring is a wonderful season. And welcome Shay, you’ll be here soon! Thank you for reading my post. LOVE, RHIANNON (Im seven years old)