Big Spider

Found in our yard today. Correction!! Jaden, a junior arachnologist who is also a Feingold friend, said that he doesn't think it's a black widow. He called it a "yellow garden orb weaver". He assures me that you have no need to be afraid of it. They aren't poisonous and it won't bite you.
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This is from Mom--Thanks, Jaden, but I'm still scared to death over it! :)
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BLACK WIDOWS GENUS: Latrodectus Black Widows, with their shiny black bodies and bright red markings, are probably our most distinctive cobweb spiders. Below left is a female black widow. The male is below right. Males have a more vibrant pattern on their abdomen than females, with many red and white spots. Male black widow spiders are rarely encountered, and are not known to bite humans. There are two species of black widow found in Kentucky, the Northern and Southern Black Widow. Both species have shiny black bodies with red markings, and both are in the genus Latrodectus. Black widows are fairly large cobweb spiders, with body lengths up to about 1/2."

For Uncle Charlie

What Kind of Punctuation Mark Are You?

JT is an Exclamation Point!!!!!!!!!! This describes him pretty well.

You Are An Exclamation Point

You are a bundle of... well, something. You're often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama. You're loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it. Definitely not the quiet type, you really don't keep a lot to yourself. You're lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy. (But they do secretly worry that you'll spill their secrets without even realizing it.) You excel in: Public speaking You get along best with: the Dash

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Here is a how-to guide for photoshop elements 6.0

Ok I guess you saw my mom's April fool's joke about us adopting again, some of you wanted to know how I did it so I'm posting a guide on how-to make funny faces in photoshop.

What you need:

• Adobe photoshop elements 6.0 or higher. (about $75 at Wal-Mart.)

• Two or more pictures of a family member with about the same lighting. (so parts of the face aren't brighter than the other.)

Here are the photos we used.

If you notice Luci's head is slightly turned, try to avoid that if possible.

These pictures all have about the same lighting.

My dads picture was taken in another room but the lighting is still almost the same as the pictures above.

How to do it:

1. When you bring up photoshop it will ask you what you want to do, click the "EDIT" option, it will also ask you if you want to register just choose the register later option. Upload your pictures into photoshop.

2. Choose the face you want to use as your main face. (In the April fool's joke we used Luci's face as the main background face.)

3. Ok lets do the eyes first, lets use my dads eyes. Choose his picture and then look at the tools on the upper left, there is a tool that looks like a rectangular dotted line, if you highlight it its called the Rectangular marquee tool. Highlight one of his eyes, (It doesn't matter if you highlight a big section I'll tell you how to fix that later.)

4. One of the eyes should have a moving dotted line going around it. Select the moving tool, it looks like a black or grey cursor at the top of the tools section. What you do now is drag and drop the eye onto the main picture. (In our case its Luci's picture.) You might be thinking, "This doesn't look like what I saw on Susan's blog, it just looks like I put part of a picture on top of another!", Well that's true all you did was put one picture on top of another. If you want me to tell you how to do the rest then call 900-555-4454 and you can order Bryan's awesome photoshop skillz for only 3 payments of $19.95!!! But order in the next 10 minutes and it only costs $65.95!!!!

5. Just kidding, what you do next is move the picture over Luci's actual eye and select the eraser tool, its near the bottom. No this won't erase Luci's picture but it will erase the extra part of the copied eye, so erase all the parts of the eye that you don't need. You can stretch and skew the eye so it fits correctly.

6. Well that's basically it, just follow the previous steps for the rest of the body parts! Our finished picture is at the top of this post.

Why do they call them "Archers?"

My Theory is because the arrows make an arch in the air. The bow is shaped like an arch, too. We looked it up on dictionary.com and that's what they said, too. My friend Clay gave me a toy bow and arrow set and I've been driving my mom nuts with it. It's a lot of fun!

This image is from boldoutlaw.com. Mom says this is Errol Flynn.

Lunch at the Palace

My mom took me to the PALACE, and I got gumbo. It makes my mom sick to see me eat the craw-dads in the gumbo.

My dad had to babysit Luci in his office.

Luci decided that she wanted to write today so here she goes!

nynnmmmmmmrtnnn

This is Bryan and I'm Luci I'm going to ask you a few questions and I need you to answer them.

Q. What is your favorite soup?

A. Um that one.

Q. What is your favorite movie?

A. Um that one.

Q. What are yo doing right now?

A. Um daddy.

Q. What type of tricycle is that?

A. Um its pink!

Q. What is your favorite thing to do?

A. Mommy.

Q.What else do you like?

A. J.T.

Q. What about me, don't you like me too?

A. Yes.

Q. What is your favorite dress?

A. Yes, that one.

Q. What's your favorite TV show?

A. Luci.

Q. What's your favorite food?

A. Grape juice.

Q. What is your favorite drink?

A. Water.

Q. What is your favorite thing to do?

A. Church, church, church.

Q. Anything else you want to tell me?

A. Yes.

Q. Ok then what do you want to be when you grow up?

A. A princess. You, you, your the prince.

Ok thank you Luci, I think we all learned something about you today.

By the way, everything Luci said up there is exact, I didn't change any of it.