Ninja

This is Ninja, our falcon.  In this picture I am stroking his head.  Today, my brothers and I put a curtain around his cage and charged five cents per person for people to see him, and go to our zoo. Now we can pay for food for all of our pets.

Expert Pig Chaser

When I lived in a tribe in the jungle, the pigs would try to get into our garden all of the time.  Often, you could look out the window and see ten pigs.  So me and my friends, made a sport of chasing them away.  We would get sticks and yell and chase them back into the jungle.

 I really enjoyed it, except for one time when a male pig turned on me.  I had it cornered, which is a bad idea, because if it is not able to run it gets in a fighting mood. I ran and yelled and my dad was able to get there in time with a large stick and get it away.

 Most of the time though, we just had fun.

My Sword

This past weekend, I drew a sword onto a piece of wood and cut it out with a jigsaw.  In this picture I  am sanding it.  I like to twirl in around between my fingers, and throw it up into the air and catch it.   

Attack of the Zebra Hornets

This is my drawing of the angry hornets from the time my brother and I got stung over forty times each.  To read the story, go to my brother's blog: http://bitscratchedstung.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/hornet-fighters.html

How I Raced a Speed Boat and Won

This is a water color I painted this morning of our kayak in the storm.  You can only see the nose of the kayak as a giant wave is threatening to capsize it.

When I was eight,  I raced a speedboat in my kayak and I won. 

I was with my dad and my two brothers who were born at that time.  I have another brother now.  We were in a three seater, yellow kayak with my youngest brother on my dad's lap.  We were paddling out to an island, sure that my mom would arrive there before us in the motor boat..  Just then, a storm broke out. 

We weren't able to tell where we were going through the thick rain.  The waves were giant, I thought that our kayak was going to flip over.  The wind howled like a wolf in the night and the rain pounded against our kayak like hammers against stone.

It felt weird that I wasn't cold, but I guess I do live in the tropics. Our kayak rolled over the waves, up and down, up and down, like the streets of San Francisco in the earthquake of 1906.

My dad paddled as hard as he could, but we couldn't keep straight. When the rain cleared, we found ourselves very close to the island.  We weren't over the reef yet, but we could see it, a sliver of green against a blue/grey
 ocean . 

We had won.  My mom came a few minutes later on the moter boat.

This is a picture of the bay where we launched,  beyond that distant sandbar is the open Bismark Sea, and the island

My Fire

I like to keep a fire going and cook food on it.

41 Animals in my Back Yard

This is my silky cuscus.  It is a new species, discovered in 2009.  We named it Midnight.   She is a baby girl.  We found her in the grocery store.  Someone was trying to sell her and we already had a cage, just waiting for a cuscus.  So when we found her, I was pretty excited. 

Now that we have Midnight, we have 41 pets.

 30 of them are fish.
6 are guinea pigs
1 wallaby
1 cockatoo
1 cuscus
1 dog
1 cat

It is fun to have so many pets, but a lot of work to feed them, but still, I love them.

Sleep overs and Guinea Pigs

This is my tree house.  Last night I slept in it with my brother for the whole night, even though it was uncomfortable.  We couldn't both fit in the hammock.  This is in a mango tree.  Me and my dad and my brother built it.  Last night I covered my head with my quilt so that I wouldn't get bit by mosquitos.  My brother kept trying to scare me and tell me that the branch from which our hammock hung, was breaking.  I wasn't scared though.

Today our guinea pig, "Cookie Dough" had two babies "Ginger" and "Ember."  There they are nursing from their mother inside the cage.  The cage is bigger, but the picture doesn't show the whole thing.  We use banana leaves to line the cage because the baby guinea pigs would get their feet stuck in the wire if we didn't.  Banana leaves are better than anything else because you can just throw them away. 

I just had to take a picture of this