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stupid snow!

So its snowing crazily when my dad says "hey grant I want you to go shovel up all the snow on our drive way"

"um do I have to"

"yes" he says

so I go out there when its like a white field "hey dad can you show me were the drive way is"

he doesn't come out but I don't care.

one hour later I come in have some hot coco and some crackers when my dad looks out the window "hey grant you didn't shovel the drive way"

"yes I did"

and as I go over to the window all my hard work was white with snow.

now you cant even see the road.

the school stomp

I got to go to a school stomp were we danced and played for a whole hour!

I danced with three girls last night.

we had fun they gave out water and candy canes for every one.

they had two disco sets going at once.

some of our teachers got up and danced
like mrs.Fabic danced with Collen!!!

hi

hay i just went fishing and i coght four big fat fish! I am going to get some pics on about the fish and a little video clip! and we now have the tree up and some ornaments. I can't wait for the ukrain kids

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me and mat chat

getting around

Hay I finally updated my blog. I got the daily cat or dog, were you see the cutest pictures of cats and dogs. Check out my new arcade down at the bottom of my blog, mess around, hang out, go see the plant, or look at the car of the day, or the book maby painting of the day. Get to know me, check out my little peragraph to the side, maby just read my blog pages I really don,t care.
I almost got some cool comic strips on.

if you find any misspelled words TELL ME it gets kind of i m b a r i s i n g

Light Speed Travel

I wrote this story and my mom thought I should post it.

Short story       Light Speed Travel   by Grant Keller

I am Evan (ee van) and it is the year 2507.  I would like to tell you my secret. Just to let you know if this story gets really weird, don’t freak out.  Just remember this story takes place in a place I call home, “Ukraine”. 

When I was in the eighth grade, it would have been 2410, after school I liked to hang out with my friend Paul, at my dad’s amusement park, where we would tinker with stuff or ride the rides. We were in the tinkering shed, where they put stuff that they didn’t need anymore, looking at old peaces of junk and scrap metal.

“Hey Paul,” I said.

“What,” asks Paul?

 “Look at this old water gun.”

“What?” Paul says now sounding really confused.

“Never mind,” I said, and we both start rummaging through the junk again.

“Hey boys,” said my dad. “I got the Light Speed rollercoaster working again.” We both start running over to my dad.

“Evan get that nest you call hair out of you’re eyes,” my dad teased.  I roll my eyes, he knows I like to let my hair grow out before I cut it.

So, we all start walking down the park roads when we see Mile High, it’s a ride that shoots you up a mile, and down a mile, in 16.8 seconds and you do this twice. Just past Mile High is Death Valley, it’s a ride that’s like a huge bowl.  You sit down in this huge ball, and you and you’re friends roll around trying to hit the other four balls that are rolling around with you. Finally we come to Light Speed, the four-person ride, that is connected by two cars. It broke when someone put a penny on the track and the car jumped and shattered the bubble like casing that covered each car. Without the casing every time it passed you you’re ear drums would shatter and you couldn’t hear for the rest of your life. You go around the track, just under light speed, 124 times until you stop.  This is done in three seconds. The cool thing about it is you go so fast that when you’re done your hair is straight back and the person is still tense like they are still riding it. So as we were getting in Light Speed, there seemed to be something different about the ride.  We were facing backwards.  It started going, slowly getting faster and faster, then boom we were gone, just me and Paul. 

“Hey Paul, Paul where are you?“ I yelled.

“Over here,“ Paul yells back.

“Wow, I think Light Speed jumped the track again,” I said, a little quieter now.

“No this looks like the old photographs your dad showed us, the ones of the land before your Great, Great Grandpa Jim bought it to build his amusement park,” Paul said.

 I slowly nod in agreement.  “I bet it was because the cars were backward and so we shot back in time.”

“Hey, hey you kids!”  Someone interrupts.

We turned to see who was yelling.  As we turned around we saw a man coming toward us and a huge helicopter hovering a bit behind him.  I mean huge, you know the ones with two propellers that would carry troops and tanks to battle. We notice a rope drop from the helicopter and it looked like the man approaching us was carrying a gun.

“Hey, what are you boys doing out here,”

“Sir,” Paul begins.

“No matter, come with me we only have so long till the rest of the Natzi’s come.”

“Um,” Paul begins again.

“Never mind, come on, come with me,” says the tall army man.

So we follow the man to the rope. He jumps on and starts going up. I jump on after him and then Paul.  Paul and I slowly made our way up, the driver starts to go again so of course we start to hurry up. I then through my legs over the side of the helicopter and help Paul get up and on.

About ten minuets later Paul and I were sitting on these boxes in the very back of the helicopter. Then bang, the helicopter sort of jerks around until the pilot took control again.  Then we make a sudden drop down and to the right, heading straight for a tall Mesa. A huge explosion and every box, chair and everything else start flying everywhere in a frantic mess. I was suddenly thrown out of a window onto hot sand. Then it all went black.

“Hey he’s awake,” someone shouts.

“What,” I say “ow,” my arm was all bandaged up and in a sling.

“Hey Evan, you flew out of the helicopter and on to the shattered glass after the helicopter hit the mesa,” said Paul.

“Oh, that’s nice,” I say finally after regaining some of my lost sight.  I notice that there is a fire going and about ten yards in front of me is the smashed helicopter that is half on and half off this cliff that we were stranded on.

“Hey Evan, I can see Light Speed with these binoculars,” Paul whispers.

“Ok.  How is that going to help us”?  I ask.

“Well, if Light Speed crashed and if we could fix it, maybe we could send ourselves back to the theme park.”

“Well that might work, hopefully we won’t have to fix it.  We don’t have any tools,” I say.

So about an hour later we go into the tents that are dressed in camo, brown and black with dark brown to try to blend in with the surroundings. We go into a small tent that has two sleeping bags and a flashlight in the middle.

“Night,” says a solder.

I try to ask him who he is and where we are, but he just shrugs his shoulders and I realize he doesn’t understand what I am asking him, so we go to bed.  About four in the morning we hear screams, running, shouting, and explosions.  We both jump up and get outside.  There is a huge fight of brown men against men in green uniforms.  We weren’t getting into any fight so Paul and I run and jump on to this four wheeler and Paul presses down on the gas and we shoot like missiles out off the mesa.  We head straight off the side of it and when we hit the side of the mesa we start going almost straight down, we hit the bottom and start going towards where we last saw Light Speed. Then we heard another engine other then ours and shooting.  There were four or five solders, dressed in green, in a long black vehicle and they were shooting and yelling at us. Well Paul floors it, and the four-wheeler starts hitting 60 to 75 but Paul didn’t slow down until we were right next to Light Speed. We both jump out when bang bang bang Paul flops to the ground.

“Paul are you ok?” I yell.

“ No, I got shot in the foot get me out of here,” he gasps.

I grabbed him and drag him about two feet and I do my best to throw him on the back seat, he starts buckling himself in when Light Speed turns on and starts to go. The green people turn around and start fleeing, unluckily Light Speed was facing them and the mesa. So it starts to go faster and faster then boom sand went every were and then we were on the tracks of the roller coaster Light Speed. In 2485.

The first thing we saw was my dad, standing by the exit.

“Hey dad!” I shout.

“Hey boys, how did you like…” he couldn’t finish the sentence because I grabbed him.

“What are you doing?” dad asks.

“Hugging you,” I reply.

“Why?” dad replies.

“Um, um I don’t know why, um I missed you,” I say.

“On one ride?” dad says.

I look over to Paul and whisper, “Paul, I don’t think my dad realizes we were gone.”

“No, I don’t either and look not bullet holes,” says Paul.

“Well, our adventure will be a secret then,” I say.

“Yes, of course it is,” Said Paul.

That was the biggest adventure of our lives and yet we have lived our lives like it never happened.  We did switch the cars on Light Speed before someone else tried to ride it.  Then Paul and I wrote a book and it was a hit seller, off the shelves, about ten million copies sold. Only now, Grant, by favorite brother, am I sending you the real story. J 

 

Lagoon a beech

I went to lagoon a beech and got to swim around. There was a 5 foot pool and I found a ring! lots of things for girls hair and a ear ring. 

 There are these huge water slides.I went down every one! one of them you got pulled into pools then pushed down a shoot into another pool on a tube and so forth. there was a huge spire and once you got to the top you could go down. it was a one person slides. There were 4 slides it was sort of for racing.

 but you would go down and you would turn and twist and do weird turns until it dropped you down diagonally into a huge pool. and the 3rd time I conked my head on the top of the tube. 

one sec

Hay! I won't be able to right much because I'm going to bare lake! we have a condo and are renting one from someone next door for the rest of the family! There is an  ice cream shop a miniature golf, and an arcade!!!  Im saving quarters for a while so I can play games there with Ethan. We play the two player games there. 

So come back in a week and there will be more and I almost can down lode pictures!! :)

Play house

Some day soon our new play house is going to be built!! It's going to have a fire man pole, rock wall and a slide. But the best part is it's going to be two stories tall with a bridge and a ladder to the top floor! Then there is going to be a porch and a deck on it. With windows on each side! We also are going to put in bark and a huge slide!! We don't know what to fill in the floors but we will think of something. Right now we are in the leveling out process, so I have been helping move dirt around and leveling out the ground, then we put in wood chips and then the house so it could be months away. :)

Guitar

My guitar ROKS I am more advanced then anyone my teacher Rachel is teaching so I learn songs till everyone catches up. so i can play jack Johnson, yellow submarine, james bond theme, and so much more! so I'm working on a song (it doesn't have words) but it is really cool once i get it on tape I will paste it on my blog! :)

To kate

For those who don't know Kate my cousin she is very fun, creative, likes to talk,  and she is coming this Wednesday!! With Maggie (her sister) Luke(her little brother) and Jack (her baby brother) and we are going to party at lagoon and at our house and other places.  Well Kate is also a very good friend and comes up with amazing stories she even has her own blog (which is only for people she invites) and an email address she has everything so she is very amazing.

Twilight

I just finished Twilight and it is a very good book! There is a lot of love in it, but other wise it's really, really cool.  The vampires have a fight in the end! and there are warewolves.

Water war

There is this kid named Thomas that lives down the street. I called a friend over. We were playing ball when he is running down the steps to my yard with a bucket of unripe peaches and a rake. His shirt is ripped and tied on to his neck with ripped shorts. As he comes screaming down the stairs he stops and starts throwing peaches at us. We were laughing so hard till he tried to throw the rake at us. (so u know rakes aren't spears!) It flopped over and didn't go over the fence. he ran away. Me and my friend went and got some water guns, when he comes out with a pick axe!!? So we soak him and his mom comes out and he gets in trouble for bringing a pick axe out. So my friend gets the hose and drenches him and he starts yelling that we broke his i pod and he left us alone the rest of the day.

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Hey, if you look on the right of the screen there are little boxes you can use to vote. So i was wondering if you would like to chose what subject to vote on next. 

Like favorite song or band, chore thing to do in your free time. And you can choes the options like between Mini, goofy or donald? so yore choice!!

I went to Hunsakers Basket Ball Camp. I got a free ball and shirt it rocked so much! Besides the fact we had to pretend to sit in a chair while coach talked for ten minutes a day. That really hurt (try it, it works a lot of muscles).  Then we had a free throw championship, I wasn't so lucky.  :(  Same with the 1 on 1, but out of all I improved my shot and learned some new lay ins. 

Also Ronney Price came and he signed my shirt. He told us all about what Hunsaker told us so...

Braces!

Hey! I got braces on and they hurt really bad but now that I've gotten used to them they're not as bad. But brushing your teeth really is hard. You have to floss your braces and teeth and you get a whole new tooth brush for them. Its not the best. :(

Bike ride

We went on a ride around a lake in Bountiful, it totally rocked!!!!!!!  When we went to the lake there were birds every where (one looked like a flamingo).  We took our bikes and once we got started riding around the lake there was this really strong wind blowing in your face.  Ethan had a hard time getting started when we were riding into the wind.  Other than that we rode on a really great trail, it was flat and just being able to ride was so fun!  We don't have a lot of places to ride on the hill we live on.  As we were going we passed three fishermen, all dressed up in fishing clothes.  I rode over a cool little rusty bridge so small that only one person can ride/walk across it.  Supposedly the fisher men spoke spanish and dad talked to them, he told morgan to say "megusta carpe" or "i like your carp" then the guy said that she couldn't keep the carp. :) how cool, after that we went and there was grass that came up and towered over my head, there were little fox size wholes in it. Then we went and kept riding till we made a turn and it was a huge stretch for 1/4 of a mile at least.  We rode around the lake twice and then mom came and picked us up and we drove home.

peregrine falcon

An endangered animal report on the Peregrine falcon

 

By Grant Keller                                                  info found at   www.defenders.org

 

            The Peregrine falcon is an endangered animal. You can tell a peregrine falcon from other falcons because they have blue-gray wings, and a very dark brown backs and a white gray colored tummy and there face is white. Right under there eye is a black tear(Its in there feathers), Their beaks are curved, and they have very strong talons, they use these strong talons to catch outer birds from the sky and eat them there.

 

I think if these birds weren’t endangered they would be a very well known bird, and there would be fewer birds were they nested! (go to www.defenders.org and they have a movie of one catching a bird out of the air)!

 

            Their name peregrine falcon comes from a Latin word; “peregrinus” which means to wander around. They live all over the world. They are usually called a duck hawk. Right now Peregrines are the fastest flying bird in the world and are able to dive a speeds 200 miles per hour! If yore average peregrine falcon can go that fast why cant you’re average car?

 

            These Incredible birds can adapt almost any were except Antarctica. They are found on every continent except Antarctica. They will adapt to cities, tropical jungles, deserts, and islands. There is a rough estimate of about 1650 of them left. Some are protected in zoos to hopefully bread(they have made a recovery but are still in need of some help).

 

            They have a length of 15-21 inches (including wingspan). They way about 2lbs and females are a tiny bit bigger then males. They live 7– 15 years and some can live up to 20 years. For a bird I think that is amazing!

 

            As I was reading in this web sight it said that they are removed from endangered on the American endangered list, but are still endangered in other countries and a few states. I hope this beautiful bird makes a come back

Basket Ball Season

I had a great year of basket ball!! I got a fast break and shot and the refs called a foul for traveling! Also I just got to help the deacons and teachers win their game! We only had 4 players till I came and then I made an easy basket over a thirty foot player! So after that I had to play again, but we lost.