Aviculture Obsessed Homeschooler Badge

Okay, I have a Musings From Neville's Navel badge, so I decided to make my own.  Put it in your sidebar or wherever you want on your own blog.  Here it is.

My Badge (Yes, It Says Aviculture Obsessed Homeschooler)

Chrysalis Cam

Today Big Dog, Little Thing and I found a chrysalis.  It has a butterfly or moth in it.  You can see through the chrysalis and the butterfly/moth is orange.  We're going to keep it in this butterfly habitat we have until it hatches.  Then we'll release it.  I'll try and add a new video of the chrysalis each day.  To see the videos click on Chrysalis Cam tab at the top of the page or click here.

Frist Center

Yesterday, we went to the Frist Center.  The two exhibits were "Woman On the Run" and "A Divine Light".  "Woman On the Run" was a very interesting.  The exhibit was a sort of three dimensional art.  You went around this "hotel" and you actually got to go through one of the rooms.  It was meant to sort of be like a 50's or 60's thriller movie.  There were little videos and things like that in the windows of the faux motel.  It was really cool.  You can check out the "Woman On the Run" blog by clicking here.  "A Divine Light" was a Renaissance art exhibit.  Of course, it was Renaissance art, so it was all religious.  It was really cool to see such old paintings, though.  They were really realistic.  Okay, so the Frist Center's children's mascot is Swifty the eagle.  On their website, it used to say Swifty was a baby eagle, but baby eagles don't have white heads and tails.  Bald Eagle eaglets are spotted as babies.  They don't have the plumage of a grown eagle like Swifty.  I'm glad they removed the baby eagle thing from their website.  That was bugging me.  Now it just says Swifty is the mascot.

A Painting From the "A Divine Light" Exhibit

"Woman On the Run"

Swifty the Eagle

My Red Hair!!!

Okay, so my hair has dried, and the red looks fantastic.  We washed the dye out of my hair with cold water, and I could already see the red.  Now that it's dry, the red is really bright.  While I was looking on the Manic Panic website, it continued to say that the best results are on bleached hair.  Well, guess what?  My hair isn't bleached, and it looks wonderful.  The ends of my hair are ultra bright!  I love it!!!

My Hair (While Wet!)

Before

After



Big Dog Shooting His Dart Gun

Okay, so this is an interesting video.  Big Dog had me take a video of him shooting at a beach ball with his dart gun.  If you watch the window in the background, you can see Kenai pass in front of the window (he had run off).  It's right before Big Dog says, "Oh, a screwed up shell."  By the way, if you're having trouble seeing the video, press the button that has arrows pointing in four different directions.  That will make it full screen.



Red Hair

Okay, my blue streak is pretty much worn out, so now I'm doing the ends of my hair with Manic Panic Rock 'n' Roll Red.  Originally, I was going to do Vampire Red, but decided otherwise.  Currently, I'm letting it sit.  M used a hair dryer to heat my hair once she had it in the foil, so the color will be brighter.  The red should be brighter than my blue was.  Well, heres a picture of me with my hair in pigtails, with the ends encased in aluminum foil.

There's a Hummingbird in the House!!!

Oh my Darwin!  The hummingbird that often frequents our feeder, we call him Creepy, flew into the house.  We had the door open so that Kenai could go to and from the backyard whenever he wanted to.  Creepy flew inside and tried to go to our Butterfly Bush.  He had one problem, though.  The window was in between him and the bush!  He kept running into the window, thinking he could get through.  "Boys, there's a hummingbird in the house!" I called.  The boys came running into the dining room.  Little Thing and Big Dog got M and D, while I ran upstairs to get my video camera.  D caught Creepy in a green net and released him outside.  Amidst the chaos, I took some pictures and a video.  Here they are.

Creepy