Part four from last time: Wolf walked on. Just then, he got very hungry. He wondered if he would feel hungry while sleeping. Abruptly, he woke up. He walked into the kitchen, where his mother was weeping over an onion. Or maybe something else??? prompts: skeletal, lesson, vacant, award “I had a nightmare last night,” […]
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The prompt today was to write about something fun and what could be more fun than walking in an area full of giant rock formation? Okay, maybe walking that same area at night under the stars? Would that make me a rock star? Hey, stop groaning, and don’t click that X at the top of
Part two Prompts for day eight through fourteen of Inktober are: reckless, heavy, sweep, sting, shredded, drink, and trunk. Where the story left off: Wolf gave his mother a special pair of earrings, which startled her, but he didn’t know why. She didn’t speak about her nonreaction. After that, Wolf talked to his mother about
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On August 14th, I had the opportunity to ride on the Edward M. Cotter, a 125-year-old fireboat that belongs to the City of Buffalo. It is considered to be the oldest working fireboat in the world, and it was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1996. That is interesting to me because I had no
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The Erie Canal was called “Clinton’s Big Ditch” by people who were very skeptical about the idea of digging a canal through wilderness. DeWitt Clinton was the governor of New York, and he saw the canal as a great opportunity to create infrastructure. This canal was to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes,
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Today, I’m going to start posting images and stories about the Erie Canal, which is now 200 years old. I hope that, within this blog, I can do this history justice. Today, I am sharing some photographs of the western portion of the canal. The above picture is Lockport, where the locks, called the “Flight
part one The pictures here are from days one through seven of Inktober. The prompts are moustache, weave, crown, murky, deer, earring, and starfish. In the days when bears and humans spoke the same language, there was a boy who was best friends with a bear cub who was known only as Baby Bear. The
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It’s time for the autumn version of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This month, I am going to share stories about some of the adventures that I’ve been on recently. In addition, I’m going to share pictures from the Inktober challenge. In this challenge, I draw a picture in ink every day for the month of
Views from the airplane Yesterday, I returned to Buffalo from Norfolk, Virginia, yesterday. It was a pretty good trip, although I spent more time in airports than in airplanes. The view from the airplane, at times, was spectacular, and here are some of the pictures that I took with my phone. I am usually quite
This is my last post from Virginia, as I am returning home tomorrow. I hope that you’ve enjoyed my pictures and stories of my time here!
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