In two more days, my friend Sophie Phillips and I are going to be finish sewing a bag. A couple of weeks ago we did the sewing class and we cut lots of the fabric. Cutting fabric takes a lot of time. We did get to do a lot of sewing also. We did not get to finish the bag yet but a day after tomorrow we are going to finish it. I can't wait!! I am really excited!!
My type of fabric is western. So the main part of the bag is cowgirls and cowboys. And the pocket and the straps are going to be a type of blue that's western. It looks really pretty and I am really happy with it.
Sophie Phillips's main part of the bag is going to be all black and then the pocket and the straps are going to be really tiny flowers that are red. It looks really pretty!!
When we are finished with the bag, the next project we are going to be doing is pajama pants. We get to pick out flannel fabric! I don't know what color I want my pajama pants to be, but I think I am going to have western also just like my bag. I just love western things.
Two days ago I went to a cooking class with my friends. Noelle's friend Hannah is doing the cooking class. She is a really good cooker. We made this week mac - cheese. It was really good!! Hannah has her class every two times a month. We might have my sister Noelle come to one of her classes but she can teach us how to do art on cakes and Hannah can teach us how to bake and make a cake taste super good! That would be awesome if she could come!!
Here are the ingredients to make the Mac- cheese sauce.
I love making desserts! There are two reasons why I love making desserts. Number one is that it's so much fun to make it! Number two I love to eat it! :)
After we make the food at Hannah's house we clean up a little bit and then we just talk if we have extra time before my dad picks us up.
Hannah has two dogs. One of the dog's names is Ace and it's a male. And the other dog's name is Scout. Scout is a female and she loves to be under blankets a lot. Scout is a Dachshund. I forgot what type of dog Ace was. But they are really cute! And whenever we have extra time we also play with the dogs.
Next week we are doing another cooking class. And we are making lasagna. I love lasagna!! But one of my friends does not like lasagna and she does the cooking class with me. So maybe I can have hers if she does not like it!:) I am really excited about it. I can't wait!!
Hadley Hofbauer is going to be joining Coyote Peterson on his adventure. They are going to be trying to see if they can catch a snapping turtle and a Painted turtle.
They see a baby Painted turtle!! They sneak up really quietly and bam! Coyote Peterson caught the baby Painted turtle. Hadley said," it looks so cute!".
Painted turtles are omnivorous which means that they eat different types of foods of things like tadpoles, little tiny fish, and plants.
The carapace is the top of the shell and the plastron is the bottom of the shell. It's light so something's coming up from underneath it like a snapping turtle, the snapping turtle might not see it, and then it wouldn't get eaten.
Hadley named the turtle rainbow.
They said goodbye and let it go back into the water.
Next, they found a Northern water snake.
Hadley got to hold the water snake. But Coyote Peterson did not want her to get bitten, not because it's venomous but he just does not want her to get bitten anyway, so he put on some gloves so if the snake does bite then she can't even feel it at all. Hadley has always been afraid of any type of snake. After she got to hold the Northern water snake she was not really scared of snakes anymore and she thinks that they are actually kind of cute! If people are scared of water snakes, it's called ophidiophobia and a lot of people are afraid. The reason why people are so scared of snakes is that they don't understand them.
They said goodbye to the Northern water snake and kept going.
They see a snapping turtle!! Coyote Peterson went into the water and caught the snapping turtle! It is a Mud snapping turtle.
People don't know how old snapping turtles get but Coyote Peterson said " it's estimated between 30 to 70 years old". And he thinks the one that they just caught is probably 20 or 25 years old. Are all snapping turtle habitats in ponds? Snapping turtles love swamps but they can also be found in rivers and sometimes along the edges of lakes. Because they're a freshwater turtle species, if their body of fresh water, there's a good chance it could have been a snapping turtle.
They said goodbye to the snapping turtle.
Hadley's favorite part of the adventure was holding the water snake.
Mark is trying to find a Zombie Toad in the Sonoran Desert.
While he was looking for the toad, along the way he found a Sidewinder Rattlesnake! Mark said, " If you look at the front of the snake's head, you see those horns, it's actually a specialized scale". He said, " The raised scales over their eyes are likely an evolutionary adaptation that may help the snake shade its eyes from the sun, or possibly prevent sand from drifting over them as they lay buried underneath the sand to ambush prey".
They move super cool!! I wish I could have a Sidewinder Rattlesnake!!
They let the snake go and kept going to look for the Zombie toad. But they came across a Desert hairy scorpion! Mark held the scorpion by the tail and made sure that the scorpion did not sting him. He said never do what I am doing, am just doing it because of science.
Mark said, " what is interesting is although it is the largest, it has probably the weakest venom". If you are stung then it will only feel like a bee sting. But if you are allergic to it, then well you can have a really bad situation. Then he let the scorpion go.
He found water!! And where water is, the Zombie toads are! He found a Zombie toad. Now he just has to catch it! With one hand in the water, he caught the Zombie toad!!!
Mark said," This creature actually lives underground.". The toad's foot has a black little dot. And that dot is actually built out of the same stuff from our fingernails. They use that to dig underground to hibernate a year, and when it hibernates it almost completely dehydrates itself and slows down all of its life processes remaining in a state of limbo for months and months and months. When the rain comes, the toad will rehydrate itself and emerge from the ground to breed and lay eggs in shallow pools of water. But they will return to the ground shortly there after for another year as a lifeless organism.
The Zombie toads eye looks just like a cats eye almost.
The toads skin is not as bumpy as a ordinary toad.
Mark said " you should definitely not have a Zombie toad as your pet".
Coyote Peterson is going to be putting his head in a box with Golden Orb Silk Weaver spiders. The name comes from the golden color of its extremely strong web, which helps to draw in and untangle a variety of victims.
Coyote Peterson said, " all spiders have fangs ". I never knew that! I always thought that only venomous spiders have fangs, but all do apparently!! Some people say that they have seen a Golden Orb Silk Weaver eat a small bird!!
Females are larger than males.
They are not aggressive toward humans. And their venom is very mild. Still, I would never want to be bitten by a Golden Orb Silk spider!! Or by any spider in fact! I am kind of scared of spiders.
Coyote Peterson said, " well I have stayed in the box for a couple of minutes already. I think it's time to let my head be out of the box now".
