Portal
Portal is about a world created purely on creativity and imagination. There are these “doorways” from that world to ours called portals. Portals are spheres of pink and silver energy. Portal Roamers, are a group of people who keep order and peace throughout the different worlds and who have been blessed with the gift of being able to blast pink and silver burstd of energy. Black and Blue Magicians, gited with the power of a blue and black black hole, picture the world of Portals differently, with dictators and tyrants. After World War II, we all know how that would have turned out.
Continue reading Portal...08/21/2007 | ken | Like It? [3]
Hairspray and High School Musical 2
Hello! Mom (Michele), Kenn, Quinan and me are going to see Hairspray at Suncoast!!!!! It takes place back in the 60’s (if you didn’t know that). I’m sooo excited!!
High School Musical 2 is a great movie. Quinan even likes it! He dances to the songs and sometimes sings along.
08/20/2007 | jen |
Running
I just went running.
We (Mom and I) left at 6:50 (ish) and ran for one minute, walked for two, twelve times. We ran about 2 and a half miles at a 13 minute-per-mile pace. I ran pretty well, and I felt good too. We saw one of our friends running also. She runs marathons and was probably up real early. No Gatorade was in the refridgerator, so I just put a couple ice cubes in. I was wear my old P. E. uniform (short blue nylon sweats with the name of our mascot and a heathered gray tee-shirt with a blue lining on the collar and sleeves, a yellow tag for your name, and Fertitta Firebirds in firy letter on the upper left corner).
08/20/2007 | ken | Comments? [1]
Book Recommendations
The Princess Tales Series
The series which was written by Gail Carson Levine, and has fairy tales in different types of twists and suprises. My favorites were The Fairy’s Mistake,The Princess Test, Cinderellis And The Glass Hill, and For Biddle’s Sake.
The Tail Of Emily Windsnap
Emily Windsnap has never swam. Once Emily joins the 7th grade swim class, something strange happens. Her legs feel as if they were glued together. Then she finds out a big secret. A BIG secret. This splendid book is by Liz Kessler.
Fableheaven Fablehaven
In this fabulous book,Kendra and Seth go to their grandparent’s house. Their grandpa tells them not to go into the mysterious woods or the barn. Grandpa is hiding something from them,but what? The two childern plan to find out. This great book is by Brandon Mull.
Inkheart
In this lovely book, Meggie and her dad Mo love books. But one night, a stranger comes to their house. His name is Dustfinger, and he seems to know Mo and calls him Silvertonge, and Mo seems to know Dustfinger. As Meggie finds out the truth,she goes on a wonderous adventure. The great book is by Cornelia Funke.
08/19/2007 | jen |
My First Entry
Hello faithful blog watchers/readers. This is the moment you have all been waiting for. Kenn has finally spoken.
Hi, my name is Kenn, as you probably have noticed. I am a girl (teenager is the preferred term) whose favorite color is green, fave animal is ducks, has a million friends (you are probably one of them, thanks for the support) and I enjoy, running (away), reading (and rereading is possible), drawing (it kinda looks like a person) and of course writing. I like to think of myself as an author-in-training, the trainer being books and my inner critique. I am typing this from my awesome lime-green vintage Apple Clamshell. I would have spoken sooner, maybe even with better words, but technology can be so simple, yet so complex. I was in the middle of a beautiful piece, when I had accidently grazed the mouse button, clicking something, all of my beautifully crafted words, disappearing into cyberspace, without a trace. I just hope this is as good.
Well, I woke up, late as I usually do in the summer, had breakfast, then went outside with Dad to look at our garden. Us Roper’s, in my opinion, had defied the odds by caring for a thriving garden in the middle of a Las Vegas summer. We have two watermelon plants, ten tomato (six being cherry tomatoes), a squash, a bell pepper, a cucumber, some carrots, a fresno chili pepper, an asparagus, (we used to have peas, but they were fried. We’re going to try again when it’s cooler) and a little flower (geraniums or something). Something had been eating our poor tomato plants, so we were looking at the leaves when we found them: the little, green tomato worms, catepillars to be exact. We peeled at least twenty that morning, including five eggs, and another twenty that afternoon. Here’s a video of me searching the leaves for the little pests.
Garden: Searching for pests from Hugh Roper and Vimeo.
When I came in, a grabbed a towel to dry the sweat off my face and when I came to put it away, in the mirror I saw a little catepillar clinging onto my shirrt. Jen was a little squimish (however you spell that).
Dad said there might be some sort of soapy spray to prevent butterflies form laying eggs, but his dad, being the champion gardener in the family, said just peeling them off works just as well. Well, wish us luck as we brave into the world of worms.
By the way, for you who are curious, we throw the catepillars into the dirt. we’re hoping they don’t climb back into the garden. At least we have Jen’s science fair project for next year. ;D
Here’s a couple more garden videos:
08/19/2007 | ken | Sympathy for our garden?
Lighting McQueen
For Quinan’s birthday Michele made a “Cars: Lightning McQueen” cake. The strawberry flavored dessert looked fabulous and tasted even better.
08/19/2007 | michele |
Cars: Leak Less and Yellow Ramone
Cars: Leak Less and DJ. Quinan opened his birthday presents from the Skenes early in the morning.
08/19/2007 | quinan |
Iron Chef
Michele has started a couple traditions.
First she waits to go grocery shopping until she needs to. This is a change from shopping same time and day every week. This cuts down on waste and helps us turn our inventory over better.
Second, she’s started Iron Chef at our house. This happens when the selection of food to cook from is dwindling and Michele hasn’t yet gone to the store. Basically whoever “gets” to cook dinner — Tonight was Kenn and I — has to find ingredients that are remaning and put them together in new and exciting combinations.
Tonight Kenn and I cooked up, chicken breasts filets, with a cheese (soup) sauce, topped with peas and served on a bed of angel hair pasta. The side was cheddar-garlic bread from Great Harvest slightly broiled with freshly grated cheddar on top.
Bone appiteet.
08/15/2007 | hugh | Do you Iron Chef? [1]
The Napping House
Just finished reading The Napping House to Jen and Quinan. Now it’s time for all of us to take a long nap.
08/13/2007 | hugh | What do you think of the book "The Napping House"?
DJ
Michele just came home from Target with “DJ” and “Ferrari F430”. Quinan and I have been waiting a while to find “DJ”.
08/13/2007 | quinan |