Acadia

I`m going to Acadia today. I will try to catch Mackrel, bluefish, and Stripers in the ocean. And eat them if they are big enough! It's going to be a long drive. I'll write about it when I get back.

Indiana Part 1

I went to Indiana and It was just Connor and I so once we got of the plane and waited for our Aunt Sally and our cousins Kinsey and Kendall. Once they got there we went and got lunch at White Castle. For those of you who don`t know what White Castle is it`s the place with these AMAZING mini hamburgers and while we were there I switched Kinsey's drink with Kendall's and Kendall and Connor were in on it so Kinsey comes back and takes a Huge gulp and gagged for dear life!!!! Then I put the drinks back and we ate our minute hamburgers. From there we went to see our aunt Vicky who works at a gas company. We talked awhile but had to leave so we went to bobs auto parts store and saw Fred. We asked him if we could ride the ATV but he said no not until he got back.

And there is this weird thing how Kinsey is in sixth grade I`m in fifth grade Kendall is in fourth grade and Connor is in third grade. So we had so much fun riding the four wheeler at Aunt Sally`s house. We also had lots of fun at Darryl's riding his golf cart. And These are the best relatives first and Second Cousins ever!!!!!!!!!

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

This is my favorite poem. It's about how they can take everything he possibly has but they can never take his soul. It reminds me even when times aren't the best that I can still stand tall.

Invictus
by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

The Cairn on the Mountain

We were going to my great Aunt Mary's birthday party and when we were coming back my mom saw this little hike thing so we went up and did it. It was Miller State Park and Pack Monadnock Mountain. We didn't have time to do a hike by foot so we did it on the autoroad. The road was a steep switchback. We were surrounded by trees and then it opened up and we could see for like a hundred miles. So when we got up there we looked all over the place. There was a fire tower up there. We went up as high as we could but the top part where the man would stand was closed. We could see all the way to Boston and all directions.

So we took a hike. There were all these rocks we had to go down. Connor and I went down farther ahead. We found this weird kind of a pile of rocks. So we called Mom and Dad. Mom told me it was a cairn that's a big pile of rocks that were used a long time ago to mark property or burial sites. The cairn was about 5 feet tall and at the bottom is started off with bigger rocks and as it grew taller the rocks got smaller because so many people had been taking rocks and putting them on. It was shaped like a squeezed in "A".

We got to go down farther on the trail and then we came back up and went back home. If you want to learn more about cairns go to this website.

Wordle

Isn't this cool? It's called a Wordle! I found out about this when Mrs. Macdonald came over for work and showed my mom the wordle. It`s Quite simple go to google and search wordle. Once you get to the site click create and start listing the words you want included but be careful because once your done you can`t go back and edit ... remember that, ok? Like I brain stormed ideas on microsoft word and then copied it into Wordle. You should try it. www.wordle.net

My Favorite Song

You know some people like and some love music I personally am a lover. My all time favorite song is "No Sleep Til` Brooklyn". But that will probably change in a little while.

GREAT Book!

I am reading the best book ever it is called Magyk: Septimus Heap Book 1. I know it is spelled weird but it`s so awesome. I thought You might want to read it.

Juggling

Today My mom is teaching me how to juggle. It is really fun. I stink at two handed but I am getting the hang of one handed juggling. I love juggling but it takes practice. I started with tennis balls. We have juggling balls that my dad got from work but we could only find one of them.

I wanted to learn to get better at eye-hand coordination for fencing. When I was at RIFAC where New England Championships were held, they had some juggling balls for the fencers to practice with.

My goal is to juggle with 8 balls at once. I think it will take a while.

I'm in the Newspaper

This was in the Newburyport Daily News: Miles Earns Silver

Baseball Camp

This year I was real excited about baseball camp because all the coaches are nice and I couldn`t go last year. This is my 3rd year and I have a great team mostly other 5th graders. And I had a great coach. I did pitching for the week and did awesome. I might try to pitch in the league next year. I did terrible in the wooden glove competition, but I did pretty good in the sliding competition.

My friends Evan, Rob, Jack, and I all pretended we were a team and our goal was for one of us to get pretty far in the sliding. Jack got out first then Rob then it was just Evan and I. He was in front of me and got out then I was up and got out. I was the last one on our team to get out. After that they gave out the awards and my brother got the Sweet Swing Award. That is the award for the best hitter. That`s how baseball camp was this year.