I did 8.1 miles today. First time I've been out in a while so I struggled a little on some hills. I did a lot of them today. I think 15 good sized ones. That and i was using my dads bike since my is getting a tune up.
37.3 miles down and 1,462.7 to go... I think I better start cracking!
Last week, I took part in a class called TeenPact. It is a class that teaches home-school high-school students about government, mostly state government. I was the first time I had ever done the class and was not sure what to expect. But I was told to throw my expectations out the window on the first day because they said that our expectations would mold our actions and our actions would determine how much we got out of the week! Makes sense to me! Well, they went up and beyond what I was expecting and i had and awesome time. the staff was great! what was really cool is that they were only in their teens! You wouldn't have thought it, though! They were very mature and professional! In fact, the young man that was in charge of my group was less than a year older than me!
Group picture at the governor's office.
Anyways, of the very few pictures I got, only a few of them came out clear.
Here is a picture of my committee! In the first class, we were split up into committee's to analyze and talk about bills before they were voted on by the entire group. Oh, I forgot to mention that we had to write a bill for this class, too. I did mine on Class 3 firearms. And the cool thing was that it stayed in my committee to be discussed. Our committee was the Military Advancements for Defense and Security, also called MADS. We were by far the best! :P
MADS Committee! From left to right:
Rebekah, Rebecca (It got a little confusing sometimes...),
Gloriana, Gretchen, Ryan, Caleb, Daniel, Me and Anthony.
Also, I ran for senator and won, which was really cool! We had elections and a debate type event where we got to talk about different thing and promote ourselves! At our graduation on Thursday, the three senators and the governor had to give speeches. And that included me.
Also, a friend of mine that used to be in scouts with me did the class, too. He is an amateur film maker and he made two videos of the week. They are pretty good! I'm in there a couple times, too!
Anyways, I am hoping to attend it again next year and their Survival Training week in the fall!
Once again, I hit the streets with my two wheeled, peddle powered sports car. it has a really nice two stroke engine- a left leg and a right leg... generally mine! I did 12.7 miles today putting me a a total of 29.2 miles out of 1,500. My grampa gave me the good idea of finding out how many miles I have Left and dividing it by the number of days Left in the year. I figured out that if, starting today, I biked 5.794921875 miles everyday, I will meet my goal at the end of the year. But, since getting the .794921875 part of it will be getting pretty hard, I will just go for 5.8. Yeah, I'm and over achiever! Anywho, 29.2 miles down and 1470.2 miles to go.
I am now at a grand total of 16.5 miles out of a 1,500 needed to meet my goal for this year! It's great- I was really out of shape when I started a month ago, but now I'm pretty "buff" (for lack of a better word) and takin' every hill that my tiers set rubber on! Maybe I'll try riding Mt. Washington... in a year... or five!
Another 6 miles today! my hands are covered in graese! My chain fell off in the middle of a really steep hill I was climbing. Do you know how scary it is to be peddling you heart out up hill and the next thing you know you're rolling backwards down it... towards an intersection... at high speed? Not fun!
Anyways, 10 miles down and 1,490 to go! Ten hardly seems like a noble feat compared to what I still need to do...
This past Sunday, our family went to see our grandparents on the other side of the state. Since my mom and dad grew up in the same town, we can basically visit our entire family all at the same time. Rather convenient... Anywho, it takes about an hour and forty-five minutes to drive to their houses, so on the way over, Holly and i played the alphabet game. You basically look for signs out the window and look for letters in the order of the alphabet. the first person to get to Z wins! Only, we put a little different spin on it: instead of just seeing the letter, you had to take a picture of it and be able to see it in the picture, which was a little unfair, since Holly's camera is about 1,000 times better than mine. Funny, I still one, but I digress.
We went to my dads parents first and visited with them for a few hours. My uncle (Dads brother) and aunt were there at the same time. the live on the same road as my grandparents. My uncle owns a sugaring business. And for those flat landers, that means we make maple maple syrup. Real maple syrup. Real NH maple syrup! And we don't tap telephone polls, they do that on the other side of the Connecticut river... I will digress on that subject, too. My uncle is paying me to make tubing for him, so have a little money!!
While we were there, Grampa, Holly and I went 4-wheeling out behind their house! It was awesome! I love 4-wheeling almost as much as biking!
After that, I walked around and took some pictures! ther are so many things to take pictures of up at my grand parents, you wouldn't believe it!
Here are some of them:
They live on a really steep dirt road.
Would hate to go down it with on breaks!
LUCY!!
Dustin's Sugar House!
The Dump-truck
One of the sap containers
You might be a Red Neck if ya'll live on a Dead End Class 6 Road...
The dome on top of the school
Holly heading back to the house
The bare. This is probably my favorite picture
The Chicken Coop
Lots of wood
The explosives I almost killed myself with
And where I found them
You don't realize how big the wrench really is until you look at the hammer next to it.
Tools!!!
AWESOME TRACTORS!!!
This thing is really fun to drive!
Barrel mover... How would you like to get picked up with that?
Coco!
Wall...
Or Secret Door???
Wall...
Or Secret Door???
Up to the hayloft!
Almost fell through the trapdoor!
Found a Bull Whip! Makes me feel a little like Indiana Jones, but only a little!
There is some really cool old farm equipment there, too!
Then we went to see my moms parents. They live about three minutes away from my other grandparents.
Ringa! His name is Ringa because when they got him, he ran around the tree he was tied to. And since Ring around the Rosie is to long, Ringa was adopted. I could not get a good picture of him to save my life.
FACE SHOT!!!
Finally! A good one...
Holly
Grama! Sorry your gift was two months late!
A picture of a picture of my cousins!
The piano!
A look through the key whole!
And that is the door I was at!
The Attic! My favorite place in the house!
That is a long way down!
Oh, and we had Thin Mints!
Cookie? What Cookie?
Oh, that cookie!
Grampa Fish!
Ringa... Again!
A picture of a picture of when my uncle and my grampa shot a moose!
