Friday Stories: Toys in a Treehouse

One morning I woke up and looked out the window. Our maple tree by the sandbox had a treehouse in it! I went outside and climbed up the rope ladder and went inside the treehouse. It was filled with toys. I woke Mitch up but he didn't want to come. So I went back out, brought one of the coolest toys to show him, and then he followed me up into the treehouse. Mitchell found a pile of Ninendo DS games, Game Boy games, Play Station games, and it measured one cubic foot.

In another corner I found a pile of Legos: the hundred and three dollar Lego set. I couldn't wait to show Mom and Dad. I sold some of the toys for money and bought a water cooler for water up there. I had friends over and I let them play in the treehouse.

The treehouse is about seventy square feet. It had four windows, one on each side. The treehouse ceiling is about six feet tall. There was a rope ladder that could be rolled up. There was a little attic with a trap door accessible from the top or inside. Sometimes I leave it open so the birds can make nests in and I can get their eggshells for the nature tray.

Friday Stories: I Wonder

I wonder how they make circuit boards. I wonder how they make resistors, too. I think what they're made for is to absorb energy so it doesn't get overloaded with power and break.


I like taking things apart. I unscrewed a CD player and it had a laser eye in it. I wonder how a laser eye reads the things on the CD.


I wonder how those sticks of circuit boards hold memory on a computer. I wonder if those black chips have anything to do about storing the memory. I wonder if they store the memory in them.


I've also unscrewed an old phone. There are two bells inside and I wonder how when there's a call coming, it knows when to ring and when it knows to stop ringing. I wonder how they make the phones now so they have an answering machine and you can hear the message and save it.


I wonder how the machines solder that and put the pieces on circuit boards and make them. I would like to take a tour of that factory.


I wonder how they make memory cards store so many pictures. I have a camera. The most pictures I've taken on a memory card is five hundred; almost six hundred, I think.


I wonder how some computers know the exact time, date, and how on Playstation, you hit a button on the controller and it sends it to the game box, into the TV, projects in on the screen, and it does the move. I wonder how all that happens so fast.


I would like to unscrew an answering machine next. If you read this, if you have any broken things, you can give them to us, if they have a circuit board in 'cause I like seeing inside them.

Journal: 4-28-2008

We whent to the Waste to Energy facility. There was a gint [giant] claw. I liked the claw. It was at least 80 feet tall with jonk [junk]. They bern 175 tons [of garbage] a day. they need a third fernnes [furnace].

Journal: 4-21-2008

We built a raised garden. I helped with it. I get my own garden. We are going to Seed Savers. They have unique seeds. I get to pick my own seeds.

Journal: 4-14-2008

Mitch got a new car seat yesterday. It cost $160. We bot it at Toys 'R Us. Mitch likes it. It gos [goes] up to 100 pounds. He wonet nead a new one agen.

Journal: 4-7-2008

We had an egg hunt. There were 2000 eggs. I flew a Buzz Lightyear kite at the egg hunt. I found about fifty eggs. I found a gold egg. You get a prise if you fined a gold egg. I like the rings for a prise.

Journal: 3-24-2008 Dyeing Eggs

We dyed deggs. I did glitter eggs. I made swirl eggs. We each got 12 eggs. Thare are 48 eggs in all. We used large eggs. We did it at night.

Journal: 3-17-2008

We have a squrle visitting the dek. He likes Nutter Butters the best so far. It is intteretaning to wach him. We give him plates of food. Thare are two squrles. The crose [crows] some times take the cookies.