Mini meat balls

I had so much fun making meat balls and getting my hands into the mixture. I made mashed potato and meat balls for diner. It was really delicious. We had some mixture left over so I made some very small meat balls to stick on tooth picks with some cheese, gherkin, and pickled onion to take as a snack to Brownies. They were really really yummy.

 

Stitched and Beaded

I am busy on a "Stitched and Beaded Tassel". I was so excited wen I started. The in-
structions were so small that Mum had to print it out bigger, she printed it on to a whole page.
The first thing I had to do was sort the beads. There are 10 different types of beads.
I started by doing normal cross stitching. I have to really con-
centrate and count very carefully.

Brownie badges

Through the holidays I have been very busy doing things for Brownie badges. This is a happy picture made from natural stuff with a colourful frame around it. I gave it to Auntie Julia as a thank you because she gave us a lot of collage "treasures".

I made a telephone using 2 tins and a pieces of string. It's really cool how the sound travels in waves along the string.

We picked up ice blocks without using our hands. We put a piece of string across the ice block and sprinkled salt on it. And then left it for a little while.

When we came back we could pick up the two ends of the string and the ice block was stuck to it.
I put pepper in a bowl of water. The pepper floats. Then I put a tooth pick in and nothing happened. Then I put some dish washing liquid on the end of the toothpick and put it in again. This was what happened. It was so cool.

I made a sun dial. I put a stick in the ground and every 1/2 an hour I marked where the shadow was and wrote down what time it is.

During the week I could look over and see what time it was. It's so cool.

Conservation work

This morning we went to the Culverden Reserve to help plant 1000 plants and trees.

We were shown how to do it properly. I had nice warm gloves with and Mum bought garden gloves that we could wear over our warm ones so our hands were not too cold. It was a really cold day.
Mum helped with digging holes and planting. The digging was quite hard. I could not use the big spade nicely. I made one hole and it was just too hard so I did not make any more.

There were 9 Brownies / Guides / Rangers and 4 mothers who came to help. So we got so much done really quickly. The man phoned the lady who was coming from town and said "if you don't get here soon there won't be any plants left to plant they are going so quickly".
Our Guiding group with 2 local helpers.

What Katy Did

by Susan Coolidge
Katy was the oldest child in her family. Their mother was dead and they did not listen to their aunt that much. Katy was always doing something wrong and did not help at all. One day their aunt told them not to go on the swing that day, but Katy was in a bad mood and forgot that her aunt had told them not to and she went on it. She was swinging very high and suddenly it broke. Afterwards she had to stay in bed because she had damaged her legs when she fell, and could not walk.

Kathy’s cousin came and talked to her. She could not walk either. Then one day their aunt died, and then there was a big change in Katy and she became a big help. Then one day she stated standing a little at a time and then began walking around a little. Finally her dad said she could go down stairs so they set a day for her to go down. The day before she could go down, there was a big hustle because they were going to celebrate because she had to stay in bed for a very long time. On the day she went down stairs, when she walked into the room she saw her cousin. She forgot she could not run and ran to her.

Beautiful Sky

Today at 4pm I saw these pretty clouds so I took this photo.

At 5pm the sun was setting so the clouds looked like this. It was beautiful.