Ok, well, we have a dog named Heidi and we have a little yellow table that she gets on and jumps on the trampoline with us. She is a big hunting dog, but we don't hunt. Sometimes she'll try to eat the trampoline but can't get ahold of the parts. She is eating our steps outside. Because there is a mouse. She is so cute. And she ate a foam peanut yesterday thinking it was a peanut. We will put up pictures of us. She ate a cupcake wrapper. Ew.
She escapes sometimes and runs to our best friends house where her parents live. Once she ran away and when my dad got back she was sitting on our front steps. She is crazy but we love her.
Today we're getting new shoes.....Maybe..."Mommy, I want to get an I Touch..." That was Lowry, my sister..."When are we gonna get 'em? Mommy, when? I want to know. MMMM." Ok, no more of that, Lowry.
I'm thinking of getting purple Converse. They look really awesome. "Mommy, what am I going to get?" That's Low Low.
We're going to post some stuff about our trip. Lowry is saying, "Cheese cheese cheese. I have ham, crackers, cookies & cheese." Those tiny toy erasers? That's what she's got.
That's all for now. My little sister thinks outside the box, ok?
On July 3rd 2004, a phenomenon occurred in the state of Hawaii, something that had not happened in 150 years, happened in a rural district on the island of Kauai. A little after 7:00 in the morning, a pod of 200 Melonhead Whales swam into the shallow waters of Hanalei Bay. In danger of a mass stranding, the people of Hanalei gathered along the shore, and called the local authorities.
The strange behavior of the pod had marine mammal experts so concerned over the weekend, that they were preparing for a mass stranding of biblical proportions. They had experts from as far away as the East Coast on standby to fly out. A team of NOAA veterinarians, marine biologists and specialists from the Hawaiian Islands Stranding Response Group arrived at the bay Saturday night. They said they could see no individual whales that appeared injured, but felt that the pod as a whole was exhibiting signs of being stressed. The scientists were in a quandary as to what to do. The people of Hanalei camped out overnight to assure that no whales beached themselves.
The following morning, the residents, scientists, and members of the local canoe club gathered along the shore. As the whales had not eaten, there was the feeling that some action was needed to prevent them from a mass-stranding. The members of the Canoe Club and the Native Hawaiians in the area decided to use a traditional method of caring for the environment. Following Hawaiian protocol, the group was gathered together, and prayed for assistance in their endeavors. They gathered a vine that grows along the shore, and wove it into a “lau” - a 400 foot lei that was as thick as a rope The end of the lau was tied to the end of an outrigger canoe, and unfurled from the back of a small fishing boat. Stretched between the two outrigger canoes and a flotilla of Kayaks, the floating lau gently encircled the pod of whales. After the whales approached the lau, it seemed as if they knew what to do. The people of Hanalei guided them into deeper waters, and they began to swim in unison. They left the bay, and left a tiny reminder of their visit to the people of Kauai.
The entire two day event was captured on film by local filmmaker and producer, Joel Guy. An avid surf filmmaker, Joel shot the film from the beach, from an outrigger canoe used in the rescue, from atop a surfboard, and underwater. Narrated by Koko Kaneali’i, and told by the members of the Hanalei Canoe Club and residents of Kauai, the film features the stunning visions of Hanalei, and the beautiful people of Kauai who were there for this extraordinary event.
For nearly 2 long years, both the producer and director of this film believed that the reason for the stranding was unknown. The film was made to celebrate the communities success in rescuing the whales, and to remind the viewers of the special Hawaiian understanding of the environment.
Slowly, the details of the use of sonar prior to the event began to surface. While the evidence of disturbance of the whales mounted, the protection of dolphins, porpoises, sea turtles, seals, and whales seemed to disappear. In the spring of 2006, the Navy was forced to estimate the amount of sonar exposures the whales and mammals would have to endure in the 2006 sonar exercises, in a "permit to harass" the whales during the 21 day, 532 hours of sonar exercises that were scheduled to begin on June 26th - July 28th in Hawaiian waters. They predicted sonar would harass marine mammals over 33,000 times.
Six weeks before the exercises were slated to begin, Dr. Ann West, a talk show host for KKCR Radio in Hanalei championed a series of shows that interviewed experts in Marine biology from organizations like the Natural Resource Defense Council, and Jean-Michele Cousteau from Ocean Futures Society.
The battle to protect the whales and marine life is being documented by Joel, and film maker Kim Fleming to create a new film that will hopefully be entitled "the last sonar exercise"
This production is currently unfunded, and the producer and director are seeking assistance to continue shooting. Through the efforts of the Sierra club and Surfrider Foundation, the public is learning to recognize stranding behavior and to call us to document the sonar exercises.
Well, sorry, um, heyyyyyyyyyyy, STOP, ok sorry about that.....now Mom is typing down everything I say. Ok.
Well, we're renting Totoro, I've heard it is a really good movie. I said ok. And I really want to see it and I'm really excited and we're going to go get it right now.
My sister and I go to Montessori school. Today at school we had three toy frogs at our work and whenever we got up, we would have to give our teacher one of our frogs. Once you ran out of all three, you couldn't get up and get anything unless the teachers said you could.
I saw a play today. The Upper El at our school did a play about China & India. They were doing reports on it and my favorite play-ish report was Mark's. His was about Chinese food.
Friday is game day at Helen Putnam Park. Our student government does the game days. We are going to do an Easter egg hunt & there is a big egg, HUGE, and whoever finds the HUGE egg will get tons and tons and tons of candy and a gift card. The end. And this is not a story. This is true.
This isn't really our dogs, we just thought that would be a good name. And, well, we really have one German Shorthaired Pointer. And her name is Heidi. She is very cute. Well, she does really weird stuff. She jumps off the couch & toots & spins in the air & when she wants to get her way she makes a really cute face. She bends her head over to the side &.....yeah. By Lowry
My name is Lowry. I am 7 years old and I would like to tell you about myself.
Well, I like the dictionary. I like to find words like Metamorphic, Sedimentary, Igneous, Mississippi and classification. I'm in 2nd grade but sort of in 1st but not really because I skipped a grade.
I have a very cute dog and this whole blog started at a playdate. My mom told us there were kid blogs so we started to make a blog. And now it has two days since we started the blog and I hope you like our blog.
I have a lot of friends and here are some of their names. Charlie, Clay, Honey, Olivia, Emmy, David and that's most of them.
And I go to Spring Hill and I love working there and learning math and I'm a special kid because I'm different just like everyone else. Maybe you could tell us what you're different about.
The weirdest thing that ever happened to me was Cic at my school asked me on to the grass to a fight, like a game, not a real fight, not like punching, like I don't really know. I didn't do it. And we were at Fresh Choice, my friends who write this blog with me, well, there was this lady. You know we're all friends. The lady said oh that's a good mommy! mommy's like biiiiggggggg kisses! you should give her a biiiiiiggggggg hug and after she left we laughed at the top of our lungs.
Super spectacular super good! Today I watched a play for Little Rascals & Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure at my old school. If only I could show it to you.
It's funny & all of my friends were in it. My friend Luke was Aerosmith and wore a long black Afro wig & my friend Kathryn & Madeline sang Walk Like an Egyptian. My friends Zach & Devin & Jacob were singing America and rolling their heads. My best friend Rebecca was awesome.
Hi my name is Avery and my talent is clay. We'll put pictures on of what I've done and what some of my friends have done. We'll also put up some little videos of what we've done.
I've lost my shoes 50 times today. Ok, I might have almost lost my shoes 50 times in this whole year. Where do they go? Under the bed, or in my parents room or in plain sight. Pretty weird, eh?
Once I stepped in dog poo and my mom threw my shoes out. Tell us what your shoes have been through.
The funniest thing that ever happened to me was when a kid at my school said disgusting stuff could morph into your tongue so I stuck my tongue out the whole recess!
I like to play soccer & I go to Montessori. Montessori means learning life skills like taking care of animals, making a game day which is a whole day that kids do and the school government. I'm learning French and Spanish which I really like and that's all for now. Bye!
We are the KALD/Bendy Blog creators. We've all been friends since Kindergarten but just to tell you the Bendy girls you see aren't real girls & they do not bend. Ok, but, now about us.
We hope you really like our blog, we think that the screaming cat might just be the best.
