Leaving...

NO! You may be thinking, but wait let me explain. By what I mean by leaving, I mean that I am taking a month long vacation to the U.S. I won't be posting as much, but I'll try to post pictures and news of my vacation. I hope you enjoy your summer, and don't get sunburned!

Bye!!!

Shooting Cans

Now you may be wondering what I mean by "Shooting Cans". Well it goes like this.

My friend had just dropped me off at my house from her sleepover. I entered my house my legs tired and heavy. I plopped my stuff on the bench and I paced the sliding doors to the backyard. But as I was passing I heard a snapping of aluminom cans. Stopping a leaned closer to the doors. There it was again, that snapping of cans. Curious, I walked through the doors to see my brother shooting soda cans with a slingshot. "Matt, what are you doing?"

Matt looked me and said, "I'm shooting cans."

I looked at him, and then looked at the cans that were lined on a plastic chair. I took the slingshot from him then I took a penny from a little plastic cup by my feet. I then aimed and shot. The coin zipped through the air and a moment later there was a loud crack. I examined the can that I hit, the coin had punctured the can I smiled.

"Nice shot." My brother said and I smiled

Now you may be thinking where I am going with this. Well I'm not going really anywhere with this. Really this post is just something that you could do when your bored. So if you have some extra soda cans take them outside aline them take your bros slingshot (or make one click here to learn how) take coins, marbles or little rocks to shot the cans with. And see how many cans you can shoot down. But make sure no one is in the way or behind the cans.

Pics:

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Sling-Shot

http://www.lisasgraphicsandmore.com/freebies.html

Mans Best Friend

Mans best friend. Dogs. They have been with use for centuries. They have been friends, loyal, and great hunting companions, they have even protected are land and houses. Dogs are a domesticated species of the wolf. In the world today there is an estimation of 400 million dogs (that is a lot of dogs). But if I want to tell you about dogs, I am going to have to start at the very beginning. The origin.
From DNA based samples date modern dog ancestors back 100,000 years. Evidence suggests that dogs were first domesticated in East Asia, possibly China. And the people that entered North America took the dogs from Asia with them. And as people began to spread across the planet and variety of dogs also spread. And during the change in time, like the agriculture revolution and urban revolution demanded specialization in breeds. And these circumstances led to the opportunity to selective breeding. This way it could create specialized working dogs and better pets for the different types of family.
But when were dogs domesticated? Well archaeological and genetic evidence say that the time of the domestication for dogs was in the late Upper Paleolithic close to the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary, between 17,000 and 14,000 years ago. Domesticated dogs may have interbred with local populations of wild wolves, but this is uncertain.
Now with the wide range of the dog breeds they have devopled some way over time. With the beginnings of agriculture around 12,000 years ago, humans began making use of dogs in various ways, this resulting in physical differences between dogs and their wolf ancestors. Also dog breeds have changed due to envoriment in where the dog lives (example your house). Like the Old English Sheep Dog devloped to hearding sheep, will the Blood Hound delvopled a sense of smell for tracking. Besides the basic breeds, like German Shepreds, people have been cross breeding dogs when they take two different dog species and breed them, these are called hybrid dogs. Have you ever heard of a Afador? This dog is a mix between Afghan Hound and Labrador Retriever. Or have you ever heard of a Plica? That dog was a mix between a Basset Hound and a Ori Pei Hybrid. These are some examples of hybrid dogs.
But with every dog breed there is dog breed popularity. For example in United States in 2005 the most-registered breed in New York City was the Poodle while the Yorkshire Terrier was the second-most-registered breed in Houston, Texas. So popularity varies in the different states. But in shelters acroos the U.S report that the American Pit Bull Terrier is the most avaiable dog for adoption. In the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2005 the Labrador Retriever was the most registered dog.
So as we now dogs have been with us for a very very long time. They have been loyal compainions and we all have our different taste in dogs. Some of us perfer small dogs, while some of us prefer to large. Some pefer long haired dogs, or short haired dogs. They are definitly mans and womens best friends.

My Dogs

Above: Daisy (Old English SheepDog) Below: Honey (BloodHound)

Pics:

http://www.firstpeople.us/pictures/wolves/1024x768/f-wolves99-11-s-1024x768.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Buldog_angielski_000pl.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs#Smell

Sites used:
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/hybriddogs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breeds#Development_of_dog_breeds

The Loch Ness Monster, Fiction or Not

A large sea lizard, with four fins and a long neck, this is a common of the mysterious creature that has been haunting the minds of millions. It has been a mystery and that has struck so many people imaginations that people have formed online groups, websites, and search groups in search of the Loch Ness Monster. Many people have claimed sightings of the Monster, some cases of the monster over turning fishing bouts, skimming the surface of the water, or just an outline of them in murky waters. But if you think about, maybe these people weren’t just seeing things; maybe they really did see the Loch Ness Monster. Maybe there is a monster that lives inside the lakes water. Maybe is not just fiction, maybe it’s non fiction.
Now you may be thinking that I am crazy, but think about it. Maybe the Loch Ness Monster isn’t just an old tale, maybe the monster it’s self is real. Us humans aren’t even close to see what Nature it’s self is capable of creating. Maybe, just maybe there is an abnormally large creature that has found it’s in the lake and has lived there for centuries and people have been sighting it. There have been water sightings and there have even been land sightings. There are even sightings dating back to the 1800’s. Below are some recorded water sightings:

Observer: D Mackenzie Time: 1200 Date: October 1871 Motion: Slow, then moved off at speed Description: Log like, then up-turned boat

Observer: John Macleod Time: Unknown Date: 1908 Motion: Motionless, then moved off Description: Long tapering tail, eel-like head. 30-40ft, creature lying in the water, flush with surface

Observer: Ian J. Milne Time: 0730 Date: July 14th 1930 Motion: Splash, moved in an arc at 16-17mph, submerged Description: 2 or 3 shallow humps undulating along back.

Observer: Miss P Keyes, R.A.R. Meiklem and Mrs Meiklem Time: 1500 Date: August 5th 1933
Motion: Moved back and forth, submerged Description: 1 hump, (4-6ft) seen end on with ridge (size of cart horse)

Besides people sighting the Loch Ness Monster in the lakes waters people have been claiming that they have seen the Monster on land. Here some of the sightings:

Observer: A group of children near graveyard Date: 1879 Place: North shore Description: Observed strange creature coming down hillside to loch. Color as an elephant, small head turning side to side on long neck. 'Waddled into water.'

Observer: E.H. Bright and cousin Date: 1880 Place:Drumnadrochit Description: Observed 'monster' emerge from wooded area and 'waddle' into water on four legs. Left wash after entering water. Long neck, dark grey.

Observer: Alfred Cruickshank Date: April 1923 at night Place: Unknown Description: Body 10-12ft long, tail 10-12ft long. Maximum diameter of body, 5-7ft, Arched back. Khaki green color, lighter underbelly. Four legs, thick like an elephants, with large webbed feet.

Observer: Mrs Reid Date: December 1933 Place: Inverfarigaig Description: Strange animal resting on slope of Loch shore. Partially obscurred by bracken. Hairy mane on neck, rest of body seemed hairy. Shaped like a hippopotamus, large round head, short thick legs, dark coloration.

Besides recorded sightings there have also been photos of this mystery.

But there is one photo that started it all; it is the most famous of photos of the Loch Ness Monster. This photo is called the “surgeon's photo”.

But as you may know this photo had been classified as a fake when Christian Spurling who had helped build the model monster that was photographed. He admitted that the picture was a hoax. But was it? Think about it for a minute. You have supposedly of the evidence of the monster and you have chance of fame and fortune. But you want to keep your discovery secret. Maybe Christian Spurling wanted to keep this discovery and not tell the world the truth. To cover up the discovery maybe he told that the picture was only a hoax to get the news reporters of his back. Just maybe he wanted to save the lake (or loch), maybe he didn’t want tourist or news reporters coming and destroying his peaceful lake. Just maybe.

If you want to learn more about the Loch Ness Monster click here or here or here.

Sites I used for research:

http://www.unmuseum.org/lochness.htm

http://www.nessie.co.uk/

Pictures:

http://paranormal.about.com/library/blclassic_loch_ness_1.htm

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=21903768&union_id=2282

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/2006lists-begin/

Power of Pink!

Now you may be wondering by what I mean by, Power of Pink!, well for me it means quite alot. You see Pink! is one of my favorite bands. For me music is also a way of art and for me Pink! music is an art. Pink! songs are all about life crisis and real life isuses. Also Pink! is all for girl power and for girls to stand up for themselves. I have posted some of my favorite songs by Pink!, I hope you like them.









Click here for more Pink! videos and click here to go to the official Pink! site homepage.

The Wolf Howls

Have you ever heard a wolf. Have you ever heard it cry it's night song to the full moon? It's deep howl that shakes the earth and rustles the leaves. No? Well awhile back I did hear that one cry of the wolf and awhile back I wrote about it. I hope you enjoy it.

The Wolf Howls

The Sun has past

A full Moon takes it's place

The Tress dance in the wind

The little Rabbit scurys across the forest floor

As the Wolf takes his stand

He howls across the night sky

The Trees stand still

The Rabbit stops in it's tracks

The stars dance to the Wolfs song

The song shakes the mountians

Rustles the praire grass

And rolls through hills.

Then the night sky starts to gleam,

As the Sun the sun rises

From it's slumber

The wolf leaves his stand

Waiting for the next full Moon.

Slipping Through Lifes Fingers

Have you ever felt that you are slipping through lifes fingers? Like Life has given up on you and you feel that your life has taken it last turn? Yes? Well so have I. I wrote this poem called, "Slipping Through Lifes Fingers" in dedication to the people who have felt that Life has given up on them.

Slipping Through Lifes Fingers

Life has given up on me

It's letting go of me

I'm slipping through it's fingers

I'm falling into the cold hands of death

I feel it's grasp choking me

Strangling me

Killing me
I pleaded for life

It didn't reply

I cried again

It didn't answer

Life has given up on me

Death has won

My First Entry

Welcome to My World, my blog my space. You will see alot of my work here, such as my art, wrtitng and anythig I feel that strikes my intrest. But first I will want to tell you a little about myself.

Hello, my name is Savannah. I have a dream of becoming a professional writer and maybe someday a illustrator of my own books or maybe a known illustrator of other famous novels. I have also have had dream of owning my own veterainary clinic, that takes aboanded animals, nurses them and puts them up for adoption. Also to nurse any other animals that are in need of them. But besides my dreams I write often but even then I don't step far out of the dream world. I write much about fanatsy, like people who don't know who they are and then find out that they do have a place in the world and go through a mafical journey. I have such stories that I titled, "ShapeShifter" "Trapped" and a "A Friend of a Thousand Years", but these are only a few. I also read much of the time, and most of the books I reas are fantasy. Like Narnia, Harry Potter and other books that I dind hidden on library shevles.

Now you know much about me and what you wil find on this blog. I hope you enjoy my writings and art.

This is a picture of moi.