Busy day
                                                    
                                                Wake up its time to do school
                                                I know its hard not to drool
                                                Take my word its not that boring
                                                Oh shucks you are already snoring
                                             
                                                Its time to break for lunch
                                                I can't wait to much
                                                Left over soup will hit the spot
                                                Ouch! That stuff is hot
 
                                               "Now to head out and do the goats"
                                                I said as I grabbed my coat
                                                Opal jumped as I grabbed her leash
                                                Ugh! Calm down, sheesh

                                               Squirts of milk went into the pan
                                               I looked out the barn as snow covered the land
                                              As I shut off the barn light
                                              I said to the goats, goodnight
                                             
                Written by Wren Johnson 

                                           

 

                                The Skateboard

                                                                                                                            

It was a bright, windy day in middle of fall; when all the leaves were at their peak. I was in the mood to go skateboarding, so I bolted to fetch it from the backroom. Boarding is fun but for me it was never successful; today I came at it with a new optimism.

As I walked on the dirt road, I pictured myself doing ollies and kick flips; by the time I reached the paved part on our road I was more then ready to go! I confidently positioned the skateboard on the little slope and gave myself a push. The wind blowing on my face made me feel free like a bird soaring in the sky. I thought I has finally conquered the skateboard, when all the sudden my wheel hit a rock. I lost my balance and the skateboard flew from underneath my feet. My leg was skinned badly along with my hand. Defeated, I got up, eyes on the ground and limped over to the skateboard.

I trudged home and put my skateboard away. In my disappointment I found myself devouring a pint of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream.

                                                                                                                            

                                     Berry Season!

Every season comes and goes year by year, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries always come with the seasons as well.

Strawberries are the first of three seasons. They come in hot, muggy, humid June, my mom always tries and get us up early in the morning so we don't get caught picking strawberries in the heat of the day. Some days, clouds cover the sky and it rains while we pick. To make the time fly while we picked, my sister Fiona and I would have contests on who's strawberry was the biggest. Normally I always ended up winning. After dealing with sweating from the heat, and wet clothes from the rain  strawberry season came to a end. Our family has strawberry cake with homemade biscuits and whipped cream to celebrate. We always invite our Aunt and Uncle over for the end of the strawberry season celebration!
Soon after strawberries have gone by raspberries start to turn red and get sweet. Since we don't have to many raspberry bushes, mom says we can't eat too many so we have some to make pies and freeze  as well. I love raspberries, so I will sneak some when no one is around (muhaha.) Our family rarely goes picking raspberries at a farm because it can be expensive, but we only go when our raspberries aren't doing well. I say raspberries are only the best when you pick them off the bush and eat them immediately. We couldn't enjoy raspberry season without a sweet, delicious, butter-crust, raspberry pie! Its one of my favorite kinds of pie.

Blueberry season is right behind raspberries, mid July is blueberry season and the blue jays can't wait to devour our fruit. Dad rounds up the family to get us to help him set up the netting on the blueberry bushes. The blue jays try and get the berries but are very unsuccessful, my brother Guthrie is pretty much a blue jay himself. When I am done doing chores in the morning I head up to the house, and sometimes Guthrie will be sitting under the netting munching down blueberries. Blueberries go all the way to August, my brother Jonny and my dad's birthday are in August. So nothing beats their favorite pie, raw blueberry pie, this pie involves no oven. My mom knows how to make it so it mounds with blueberries, and it is covered with whipped cream. I don't really find favor for this pie but the rest of my family does, and they can have my piece! My family is big on freezing blueberries for the winter so there is always some fruit to put in our homemade goat yogurt. So my mom and dad make sure we save some for the freezer.

Blackberries are my sister Fiona's favorite berry of all the seasons, she loves to go blackberry picking and I don't mind tagging along. Its fun to see which way is the easiest to move around in the blackberries. When Fiona and I were younger we used to make tunnels under the blackberry bushes and pop up where ever we saw blackberries. This was a pretty good idea, until we got older. I love the sweet taste that blackberries have, sometimes I just pick a whole handful and stuff them in my mouth. Our Uncle's birthday is in August during blackberry season, so Fiona and I always make a blackberry pie for our Uncle. Even though its really hard to to push through the blackberry bushes and get to the blackberries, there is always a rewarding feeling afterwards because you know that you will be able to get to eat them, or you can make a pie out of them! My family is big on pies if you couldn't tell!

Berry season is sooo awesome!