Johanna Speaks

Coyote Paterson is in Florida Keys. And is going to a island called” Raccoon Key”. 

They made it! Coyote Peterson feel’s like he is on another planet when he is walking on the Island. The ground is super dense.

 Coyote found a really big pond! All of it looks like rock at the bottom. But as he goes a little bit farther it’s beginning to get a little muddy. He looks into the water. He sees an iguana! Coyote Peterson thinks it might be dead. So he puts his hands in the water very slowly and gets a nice hold on the iguana. And sure a nuff it’s defiantly alive! It is a green iguana. It’s really beautiful. And really cool looking! It has sharp claws and spikes that is on its back.  Iguana does great in saltwater. Iguanas are really good swimmers. He let go of the iguana into the water. Then he found another one. You can tell it was not the same one because this one had a darker type of green. Iguanas will hide out in a bush and when they hear something coming towards them then they will go into the water and hide out there intel the thing or animal goes away. The one that they caught was a little smaller than the other one. He let go of the iguana into the water. He went to go and look for more cool stuff and other types of animals he could find. 

He found another iguana!!

Green iguanas can hold their breath for close to 30 min. 

 This one was defiantly bigger than the other two. This iguana's skin color was almost like yellow. It has a very long tail! In full length, the iguana is about 4 feet long!  

Coyote Peterson named the iguana “ Dark Headed Dragon of the Raccoon Key”. And then let it go back into the water.

We just finished sewing the bags! Mine and Sophie Phillips look really good!! I am really happy with it!

The hardest thing about sewing the bag for me is probably getting the lines straight when you are sewing on the machine. When I go really fast on the machine I feel like it's actually easier to get the lines straight when going fast. But sometimes I don't really get them straight. When you are doing the inside of the bag it does not really matter if you don't get the lines straight because nobody is going to look inside the bag at the lines and say they did a horrible job.:)

The easiest part for me while doing the bag is probably lining the fabric up with the foot on the machine. 

I just love sewing!! It's soo much fun!!

Here is a video of the bag I made:

I don't have a picture or a video of Sophie Phillips's bag unfortunately. But her bag looks really good!!! 

The next project is going to be pajama pants and I am so excited!! I can't wait!! I will definitely take a picture of me in them when we do the pajama pants.:)

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.

Here is the pajama pants project:

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!! 

Coyote Peterson is in Kirtland Ohio. 

 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.