My new room

Hello peoples. Today I am going to talk about my new room. Here it goes.

For a while now my parents have been working on redoing the house I'm sure most of you know that. I went from my first room that me and Katie shared to my dad's old comic book room now I am in my parents' old room. The first thing we did was rip up the old carpet and put down new hardwood floors. Next we got my bed and so that I could get out of my old room. I've got new pillows and sheets on my bed.

I keep books that I've read before on the bookcase in my room just for memories. I've got a pretty big closet .My dad had a desk in his comic book room that's mine now and we repainted it Brown from green to fit my room. Just above it are 2 old shelves from the laundry room we also painted brown. My shelves have most of my Horror movie stuff on them.

The paint color is light gray. One of the best parts of the new room is my own bathroom. It's nice to have my own room the way I wanted it. None of Katie's big pink flowers, Alex's nightlight or dad's cheesy comic books curtains. ;D



Bye.

By Ashton

Frisbee golf

Hello peoples. Today I am going to write about what I did today. Here it goes.

Today me, my dad, and his friend Steve played frisbee golf. First we got three different frisbees or discs. The driver, mid-drive, and the putter. There are other discs but those are the main ones.

The hole is a metal basket on a pole and above the basket are chains you can get it in to. First you use the driver because it goes the farthest. You point your body at a 90 degree angle to your target. You want to aim to the right of it because the frisbee curves. Then you take 2 steps forward and throw hard.

You want to keep the frisbee as flat as possible. If you get good at it you can angle it down a little as you throw it, this makes it curve right and then left, which makes it go farther. The mid-range disk is just for medium range when you're close to the basket. The putter is best for when you're really close to the basket and you can get it easily because it's easier to control. It takes a while to get used to but I was pretty good after the first couple rounds. I'm pretty sure Steve beat me and dad but he's been doing this for a while. Most of the real problems were the trees and sometimes it would go off the path and I would have to go into the brambles.

Bye.

Cross Country

Hello peoples. Today I am talking about cross country. Here it goes.

So in the second week of school I started cross country for Spring Mills high school. I am the only eighth grader on the team. After school during bus call one of my teachers drives me there. As soon I I get there I get in line with my other teammates and we start running around the school for warmups. When we are done coach Bennett or coach Sedlar tells us what we are going to do today.

First we stretch. On my first day we did a tempo run. The coach sets up a big square with a traffic cone at each corner and we run around it. It lasts twenty minutes and after four minutes of jogging you sprint for a minute so you end of sprinting for four minutes. It was my first day so I was a noob, the noobs jog the whole time and don't sprint. It wasn't to hard but it was hot.

When we were done we stretched again before practice was over. The next day everybody ran the actual cross country course with coach Bennett. That day it was still hot but we got to run in the rain and that felt good. It is not marked yet but we looped it twice and it was around 3.5 miles. During the rain one of my teammates picked up a turtle. We suggested it should be our mascot, "Speedy".

The hardest thing I have done so far was a course coach Sedlar put together. It was a day that coach bennett was not here. First you run up a hill to coach Sedlar and then run behind her all the way to the bathrooms in the middle of a field. From there you run back and down the hill. You do this twice before you get a break. Due to it's infamy among my teammates we have named it " the Sedlar circuit. "

Bye


By Ashton

Camping

Hey peoples. Today I am doing a blog on my recent camping trip. Here it goes.



So after Friday I had to ride the bus home and skip cross country to go camping. We left soon after I got home and had an hour long drive to Rocky Gap, the campsite. We unpacked and got firewood. For dinner we had hotdogs cooked over the fire, and chips. Katie brought Tales from the Crypt and she read us a story before we went to bed.



When we woke up on Saturday Aunt robin, Uncle Dave, Isaac, and Andrew were all in the next cabin because they got there late at night. For breakfast mom cooked us bacon and pancakes. Soon after Andrew woke we all went into the forest to a patch of trees we call the drunken trees. We called them the drunken trees because the trees there have twisty and curvy trunks near the ground and they are easy to climb. A lot of them grew close together there and it made a ceiling of leaves.



Afterwards we went to the lake. I swam with my cousins for a while before I went out on the canoe with my mom. We got back and we climbed in the trees again. This time we actually made a game where we pretend we were in a cave climbing on rocks. Some people would be a lump of rock on the floor. The others had to keep climbing and could not touch the ground. The rock was very thin, so if you touched the ground it would break and lava would pour out into the cave and you would die. The more noise you made the lump would crack. If the lump broke everybody that was a rock represented lava and had to run and tag people. The climbers had to run out of the cave to survive. (back to camp). Then we got more firewood and had corn and burgers for dinner. After dinner, right before Katie told her story a skunk came in our campsite! We had to retreat into our cabin for the night. In the morning the skunk was gone and we hiked a trail before saying goodbye.



Bye.



By Ashton

Vermont trip

Hello people's. Today I am doing a blog on staying with my grandparents. Here it goes.

So on wednesday we left at around five-o'clock in the morning for our almost twelve hour drive from West Virginia to Vermont. We had sandwiches for breakfast and Ted's Fish Fry for lunch. During the car ride I had my iPad, iPod, and most of my make up work for school. We recently got a new car so that made this trip a lot easier. It is bigger with more space. It also has a TV. Our last car had a TV but it was broken when we got it. We also stopped at my great-grandma's to say happy birthday.

We got there at around five-o'clock in the afternoon and had pork for dinner. The next day we went east to New Hampshire. We were going there for a GIANT candy store called Chutter's. It has the worlds longest candy counter where you put candy in a bag and weigh it to get your price. It is pretty much a sweets buffet. I got Lemon heads, candy corn, and Reeses' peanut butter cups; some of my favorite candy.

On Friday we went tubing in the lake with granddad's speedboat. I went three times and wiped out 2 of those times. This was also the first time Alex went alone! Grandad does this thing where he is going fast enough to create waves and then he turns into then and the tube hits them hard. We went pretty slow with Alex though. Mom went out of the wake once and then grandad kept swerving back and forth so she kept going in and out of the wake until she crashed. We stopped at an island for lunch. AND now we all have sunburns. Saturday was pretty much just tech support for Grandma's new computer.

So here I am on another twelve hour drive all the back to Martinsburg... and school. (sigh) Bye.


By Ashton