No Coffee Stand 2011.

Due to moving, The Cattail Creek Cafe coffee stand will not be open during the Summer of 2011.

8th Grade Going Great

Sorry, for not posting lately.  Much has been going on this year with school, friends, family and martial arts.  My eight grade team is the All Stars with Mr. Sears PD1 Soc. Studies, Mrs. Schauppner PD 2 Algebra, Ms. Angerson PD3 Science, and Ms. Biscotti PD4 Lang. Arts are my core subject teachers.  My three other teachers are Mr. Lentz for PE, Mr. Cummiskey for Chorus, and Dr. Ferch for Spanish 1.  I just have to say great teachers and so far my 8th grade year has been going great!

Meet Olivia

I just wanted to put some photos up for those of you who may not know Olivia.  And also to get the teeth photos out of the way so you would have something nicer to look at.

And heres the famous, 'Just let me lean on this here couch'!

Me on the Water

I was followed by my mom and sister today when they went and took an adventure on the dorky Annapolis Harbor Queen trying to take photos of me sailing.  For being so far away from me it was impressive they figured out which boat I was on and that they managed to take a few nice pictures.

I'm in boat 2 as the crew, wearing the blue life jacket.

And same here in this photo.  Also in boat #2.

Sailing Days 2, 3 & 4

Sailing is so much fun.  It is hard to find time later to post, but I will try to catch up.

Day 2- We learned capsizing and tacking down wind.  To practice this we played follow Melissa, which involved tacking continuously and turning to judge the wind direction.

Day 3- Everyone got a turn to be the skipper and the crew.  We got free time to practice our sailing skills.
Day 4-  Today we learned the correct way to gybe.  We sailed figure eights around two buoys and practiced gybing and tacking.  Two people capsized today.  They were completely overturned and it took them awhile to turn back over.

Sailing Camp

Today was my first day of sailing camp.  This is my first sailing camp ever and really my first sailing experience by myself.  I am sailing a Club 420.  It is from 9:00 to noon at the Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis.  In my class there are 12 students and 2 instructors named, Fletcher and Melissa.  We didn't do much sailing today but we did go out on the water for a quick swim test and a capsizing drill.  It was really hard to right the boat using the correct scoop recovery method, involving climbing on the centerboard,  to upright the boat and scoop the other sailor in.


Internet photo of scoop recovery method, but you can picture me pulling the boat upright.