Seventh Day in New York

Yesterday, I got up very late (9:00 AM) and my grandpa went to play golf in the morning. When he got home, a neighbor came over to help put up the hawk perch. This time it was for real. Afterwords, My grandfather and I went to the library to pick up some papers to go to the bank. It ends up that we forgot papers at the house and we had to go back to the house. Then to the bank.
At 4:00 PM my aunt and my cousin came over. First, my cousin and I drove the tractor around the farm. Then, my cousin had to go to his baseball game, so, my aunt and I went fishing and swimming in a pond. Then, we went to the baseball game.

Sixth Day in New York (Father's Day)

Yesterday, I got up earlier than usual and at 8:oo AM my aunt came over to wish my grandpa a Happy Father's Day. At the same time the triathlon people came over to take an inventory count for what they need for this year's Cayuga Lake Triathlon. Then, I helped my grandpa put up the hawk perch, but it never went up. When I came back inside, I helped my grandma make the bed. Afterwords, we went to Brownie's (a farm stand) and got strawberries for a strawberry- rhubarb pie. On the way back we stopped at Taughannock Falls and walked over an old railroad bridge. When we got home I helped my grandpa some more to put up the perch. On the way back to the barn with the tractor I turned around in the woods because I wasn't very comfortable going over a certain bridge in that certain direction. But when I came out of the woods my grandpa had laid all of the stuff over the trail. He said "Go the other way." Then, I said" I'm uncomfortable going that direction on that bridge, I'm afraid the trailer will fall off the bridge because of the angle. I ended having to go over the bridge in that direction and right when I got on the bridge the trailer fell off and went into the creek. That night we had dinner out side. I saw a bunch of fireflies.

5th Day in New York

Yesterday morning, I went to my cousin's baseball game. The final score was 2- 10, they won. Afterwords, we took my cousin home, but on the way we stopped at Agway (a farm equipment store) to get 2 spark plugs and a fuel filter. When we got home, I mowed a part of the small field. When I was done mowing I saw this overturned bird nest in the field. I touched, a baby rabbit ran out, so I chased it. I touched it again, another baby rabbit ran out. Then, I picked the nest up and grabbed the rabbit. I showed it to my grandpa, he was amazed.

Fourth Day in New York

Yesterday, the tractor was never touched. In the morning, my grandpa went to play golf in the while my grandma and I went to the eye doctor for my grandma's checkup. When we got home we all had lunch, then, my grandpa and I went to the woods to get a tree that we cut down the day before. My grandpa wanted to to make a hawk perch out of it. To get it out of the woods we took the trailer for the tractor and put the tree on that. We put in the field. After dinner, we went to the next town over to go look at some birds. When we got there, there were no birds.

Third Day in New York

Yesterday morning a gardener came to the farm and did some gardening in the flower bed and some weeding, so I drove the tractor Meeting", while she was gone my grandpa and I worked in the woods clearing out more brush. I drove the tractor in to the woods then, it started sounding unusual, so my grandpa said to go put it in to the barn. That was the last of the tractor. That evening my grandpa gave a presentation at the library about his trip to Africa.

Second day in New York

Yesterday, I woke up really late ( 9:00 AM). Then, I went to the library which my grandpa is the president of and we went to the bank. The library was changing the treasurer to another person so the person needed to fill out paper work to the bank, but the bank made a mistake. When we got home, my grandpa and I trimmed back the branches in the woods that were going on the trails. It took about three hours and we're still not done. At 6:00 PM we were supposed to go to my cousin's baseball game but it was canceled.

First Day in New York

I'm going to my grandparents house in Upstate New York. My grandma came a couple days earlier to pick me up and then we would leave at 11:00 PM from San Fransisco to Washington D.C. (Dulles).During the flight I threw up. It was horrible. Then we went from Washington to Syracuse, NY, I slept most of the time. When we got to Syracuse we went to my grandma's car and drove home, because this was at 9:00 AM my grandma needed some coffee, so we stopped at the nearest coffee shop. We made another stop along the way, it was at a winery. We bought 12 bottles of wine. When we finally got home I started driving the tractor immediately because I was so anxious to do it. At around 1:30 PM, my grandpa and I started trimming the hedge. I took the little branches to the compost and he cut them off the hedge.

Voting

Last night, we voted for the primary elections for California. I was really the one voting with a little help. We voted for Meg Whitman.

Photo Contest

The city of San Jose had a photo contest of historical buildings and I entered 2 photos in it. One was taken from the top of the city library looking at the Bank of Italy/Bank of America building on 1st St and Santa Clara St. The other one was a picture of the De Anza Hotel sign taken from Santa Clara St. The one taken from the library won 1st place in the under 19 historical buildings group and the De Anza photo won 3rd place. I entered another photo but it didn't win anything. There will be a reception at City Hall on Tuesday May 18.

Exchange Student

In early May, we had an exchange student called Ceny stay with us. He was from Blerancourt France. In October I went to his house (75 mi from Paris). The exchange trips are for school. We took him to the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, Mission San Juan Bautista, and his class went to the Cantor Museum of art (Stanford), Muir woods, and San Fransisco.