Blog Olympics Training Camp #6 - May 1

Ring graphics courtesy of Carrie of Cze-Johnson Fever

May 1, Let it be craziequeen's palace!

The Sixth Blog Olympics Training Camp will be held at craziequeen's palace!

That's right folks, we're going all the way to Britain for this camp, to probably the best palace in the world.

Check Lazy Daisy Log for all the pre-game news of the training camp.

Craziequeen is starting things off at 10:00 PM her time. So when is that your time? Look at Tima and Date.com for what the start time is in your area.

Do you live in Honolulu? Start time is Mon 11:00 AM.
Do you live in San Francisco? Start time is Mon 1:00 PM.
Do you live in Edmonton or Denver? Start time is Mon 2:00 PM.
Do you live in Winnipeg or Chicago ? Start time is Mon 3:00 PM.
Do you live in Toronto, New York or Miami? Start time is Mon 4:00 PM.
Do you live in London or Dublin? Start time is Mon 10:00 PM.
Do you live in Barcelona or Paris? Start time is Mon 11:00 PM.
Do you live in Melbourne or Sydney? Start time is Tue 7:00 AM.

Training Camp is fast, easy and fun. We had a great time last time at TNChick's. Don't miss out on the fun this time around!

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If you would like to host an upcoming Blog Olympics Training Camps, please send me an email.

Here are the current standings:

04 S X X S X X Amber
02 S X X X X X Amy Linder
02 X X X S X X Andria
05 S X G X X X Anita
02 S X X X X X Archshrk
02 S X X X X X Beckie
01 X X X X X B Binnsy
03 X X X X X G Bonnie
02 X X X X X S Carmen
10 S X S S S S Carol
02 X X X X S X Carolyn
02 X X X X S X Carrie
05 X X X B S S Chichimama
01 X X X X X B Chilady
02 X X S X X X Chrixean
12 S G S S X G CrazieQueen
05 B X S X S X Crazy MomCat
02 X X S X X X Dave
08 S X S X S S David
07 S S S B X X Erin
07 S X S S B X Friday's Child
01 X X X X B X Frog Legs
05 B X S S X X Gnome
05 X X S G X X Imran
03 X X X X X G Indigo
02 X X X X X S Iris
10 S X S S B G Jane
03 X X X X X G Janet
03 X X G X X X Joyce
02 X X X X S X Karin
07 G X S S X X Keb
18 G G S S H G Killired
02 X X X X S X Kimmy
07 S B S S X X Kristarella
06 S X S S X X Lazy Daisy
03 X X X X X G Leanne
04 X S S X X X Lyn
02 X X X X X S Lynne
04 S X S X X X Mama B
02 X X X X X S Mandy
11 S X B S B G Mar
04 X X X X S S Marcia
05 X X X S B S Melli
06 B X S B S X Minerva
02 X X X X X S Miss Cellania
02 X X X X S X Mom Nancy
04 X X S S X X Nancy
03 G X X X X X novaks8
05 X X X G S X owlhaven
01 X X X X B X R
03 G X X X X X Renee
02 S X X X X X Scott
04 S X X S X X Scouser
01 X X X X X B Shash
02 S X X X X X Shelli
07 S X X G S X sister celtic
02 X X X X S X Stephen
01 X X S X X X Su
03 X X X X X G SueEllen
02 X X X X B X Susan
04 S X S X X X Suzy
09 S H S X X X tamara
06 X X B S S B Tanya
01 X X X X X B Terry
03 X X G X X X The Random Yak
13 S X S S S H TNChick
06 S X S S X X Trinity13
03 S X B X X X Veronika
02 X X S X X X Wendy - On the Go Mom
01 X X X X X B Wendy B
12 S X S S G G WendyWings
02 X X X X X S Xmichra
05 X X S X G X YellowRose

Legend:
First number is the total points so far, the following letters are the buttons you won at each successive training camp.

G = Gold = 3 points
S = Silver = 2 points
B = Bronze = 1 points
X = Missing = 0 points
H = Host = 5 points



Blog Olympics Training Camps are held the first and fifteenth every month.

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Blogging at my Mother's

I am at my mother's house trying to blog. I am using my mother's computer.

My mother bought one of those roll up flexible traveling keyboards for her home PC. She doesn't have a laptop,

Some members of the family questioned her sanity on this decision. This made her resolve to use this keyboard even stronger. Now I have to suffer the consequences. This keyboard is terrible! It doesn't capitalize when you ask it to, and some letters don't appear even though I know I typed them. The keys don't push down when you type, they wobble!

The funniest part of bloggong at my mother's is that the chair she normally sits in is three feet from the computer. I was reading someone's blog and they had pictures of their kids posted.

Mom: Who's that Barbara?
Me: Someone's kids, you don't know them.
Mom: Who's that?
Me: Just another kid Mom. They belong to one of the blogger's I read.


I began hoping that my blogfriends didn't post any pictures, how do you tell your non-blogging Mom about a picture of LunaticMom's daughter LoonyGirl. It's so hard to explain.

So, between my mother's keyboard and her questions, blogging is a little slow here.

My mom is the best though. I had a terrible migraine this morning. My mother was fetching me drinks, getting medicine for me, covering me up with a blanket and was extra quiet doing all these things. She rocks.

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Trying To Catch Up

Grandma,Mom and Me
Remember I told You I would ask my mother about the picture of her, me and her mother. We were standing in front of a garage door in Paramus and I didn't know why.

Well, I'm at my mother's using her awful keyboard, this is taking way too long to type, but here is the answer.

My mother says that her Aunt Mary lived in Paramus and we probably were at a fire hall for a chicken dinner.

That's it.

Past Tense: parts of my past

Kodak-Birdcam 2006 Mariah Kaver

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April 27, 8:47 AM - Mariah arrives at the nest.

April 27, 12:22 PM - What does Kaver see? Is there a predator out there?

April 27, 3:12 PM - Kaver hurries into the nest.
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Kodak Birdcam 2006 & Others

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Thursday Thirteen Thirteen pictures of beautifulbirds from Birdcams

2006 Apr 26, 9:31 AM - Mariah Checking the eggs.

2006 Apr 26, 11:19 AM - Kaver is an array of feathers. It was a very windy day in Rochester.

2006 Apr 26, 7:11 PM - Mariah with her six eggs. They are due to hatch the first week of May.

2006 Apr 26, 7:49 PM - Kaver looks the eggs over.
Kodak Birdcam

2006 Apr 26, 10:02 AM - Storks from a bircam in South Germany.

2006 Apr 26, 12:02 PM - Hatchlings!

2006 Apr 26, 12:32 PM

2006 Apr 26, 5:02 PM - Look what the stork brought! (It had to be said)

2006 Apr 26, 8:02 PM

2006 Apr 26, 9:02 PM
German Storkcam
2006 Apr 26, 7:53 AM - Vaino, a male golden eagle in Finland

2006 Apr 26, 12:38 PM - Aino, a female golden eagle, Vaino's mate.

2006 Apr 26, 8:31 PM - Aino checks both her eggs.
Flight of the Eagle

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The Jake Silver Show: Happy Birthday To Me

Hey Everybody - Today is Jake's birthday. Go wish him a great day! The Jake Silver Show: Happy Birthday To Me

Kodak Birdcam 2006, Mariah & Kaver

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April 25, 7:33 AM - Mariah has breakfast.

April 25, 5:44 PM - Kaver calling to Mariah.

April 25, 5:54 PM - Mariah is right outside the nest.

April 25, 5:58 PM - Mariah inspects the eggs.

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Wordless Wednesday 2006-4-26

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Kodak Birdcam 2006 April 24

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Tasty Tuesday


9:41 AM - Kaver leaves the nest.

9:42 AM - Mariah gently positions herself on the eggs.

11:33 AM - Kaver is back!

1:24 PM - Mariah brings Kaver a snack.

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Grandma, Mom and Me

Monday Memories

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This is a picture of my grandmother holding me, my mom is standing next to her. I'm not sure what we are doing in Paramus, in front of a garage door, and me all dressed up. I'll have to ask my mother.

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Kodak Birdcam 2006 Peregrine Falcons

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High atop the Kodak Building in Rochester, NY there is a nest box that two falcons call home each year. Mariah and Kaver are tending to six eggs this year. They take turns keeping the eggs warm, while the other hunts and keeps watch to keep predators away. Yesterday the cameras caught some pictures of Mariah and Kaver keeping a look out near the nest box. It was raining yesterday, so there was rain on the lens in some of the pictures. Kaver Mariah Mariah in the foreground The same shot of Mariah from inside the nest box.

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Full

Looks like I didn't get the memo that this week's theme had changed. This is my photo for the theme "Full".

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Some of you have asked how many pennies are in the jug. We haven't counted them, so I can only approximate. There are 7771 pennies in a gallon, and this is a five gallon jug. That's 38,855 pennies or $388.55.

You need 162 pennies in order to have a pound of them. So that jug weighs 240 pounds, plus the weight of the jug. We don't move it very often.

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Kodak Birdcam 2006 Peregrine Falcon

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It's raining in Rochester, NY today. Looks like Kaver got caught without an umbrella.

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How do you like my new animated speaking character?

I just got it. Not sure what I'll do with it, but I wanted to try it out. What do you think I should do with her?

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Kodak Birdcam 2006 - Peregrine Falcons

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Thursday Thirteen Thirteen pictures of peregrinefalcons from the Kodak Birdcam 2006

Six eggs are hard to wrap your body around!

Kaver is keeping the eggs warm while Mariah keeps a look out.

Looks like Kaver better let Mariah have a turn sitting on the eggs.

Mariah - it's your turn to watch the kids!

Ummm, excuse me Kaver, one of the eggs is getting cold!

Time for a shift change.

Mariah is counting the eggs, there should be six!

If I do the hokey-pokey and turn myself around, all the eggs will be covered up!

Hey, how did you escape?

Mariah will have a bird if I crack one of these babies.

Mariah showing us how to get them all covered.

Perhaps if I spread out a little I can keep them covered.

What is going on out there?

Kodak Birdcam

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Where I'm From

I am from books,
from Reader's Digest and magazines.
I am from the tiger lilies behind the house.
(Orange, ubiquitous,
I brought some with me.)
I am from the pine trees,
the willow
whose broad trunk and forked branches
supported my adventures.
I'm from the Moose Club picnic and crooked pinkies,
from Ronald and Emily.
I'm from the early birds
and the fast talkers,
from don't lie and say please.
I'm from six years perfect attendance at
Sunday School until the sermons
started at ten o'clock instead eleven.

I'm from Canastota, and the Air Force,
spaghetti and soda.
From the song my father sang
to teach us the alphabet
in the little red car that always started.
In the narrow hallway
were the pictures,
some with a red tack covering
a child's face.
We were all there, and when we left
the pictures remained in our stead,
passed by each day,
on the way to the morning.

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Inspired from the poem Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons and from A Revision: "Where I'm From". Thank you Carol.

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Six weird things

I've been tagged by the lovely and talented Kristarella and It's a Flip Flop World. I only need to think of one weird thing because I've already written the five weird things about me.

One more thing, this is so tough because I am so normal, no weird things about me, nope, I'm as normal as they come. I'm still thinking. I've literally been thinking for 10 minutes now. Oh good, I got an email, be right back. It was spam, darn it, no diversion there.

Did you know I have trouble saying the word accompaniment? There I said it, I mean didn't say it. That's one weird thing. I'm done.

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Wordless Wednesday 2006-04-19

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Blog Olympics Training Camp Totals

Legend:
First number is the total points so far, the following letters are the buttons you won at each successive training camp.

G = Gold = 3 points
S = Silver = 2 points
B = Bronze = 1 points
X = Missing = 0 points
H = Host = 5 points

04 S X X S X X Amber
02 S X X X X X Amy Linder
02 X X X S X X Andria
05 S X G X X X Anita
02 S X X X X X Archshrk
02 S X X X X X Beckie
01 X X X X X B Binnsy
03 X X X X X G Bonnie
02 X X X X X S Carmen
10 S X S S S S Carol
02 X X X X S X Carolyn
02 X X X X S X Carrie
05 X X X B S S Chichimama
01 X X X X X B Chilady
02 X X S X X X Chrixean
12 S G S S X G CrazieQueen
05 B X S X S X Crazy MomCat
02 X X S X X X Dave
08 S X S X S S David
07 S S S B X X Erin
07 S X S S B X Friday's Child
01 X X X X B X Frog Legs
05 B X S S X X Gnome
05 X X S G X X Imran
03 X X X X X G Indigo
02 X X X X X S Iris
10 S X S S B G Jane
03 X X X X X G Janet
03 X X G X X X Joyce
02 X X X X S X Karin
07 G X S S X X Keb
18 G G S S H G Killired
02 X X X X S X Kimmy
07 S B S S X X Kristarella
06 S X S S X X Lazy Daisy
03 X X X X X G Leanne
04 X S S X X X Lyn
02 X X X X X S Lynne
04 S X S X X X Mama B
02 X X X X X S Mandy
11 S X B S B G Mar
04 X X X X S S Marcia
05 X X X S B S Melli
06 B X S B S X Minerva
02 X X X X X S Miss Cellania
02 X X X X S X Mom Nancy
04 X X S S X X Nancy
03 G X X X X X novaks8
05 X X X G S X owlhaven
01 X X X X B X R
03 G X X X X X Renee
02 S X X X X X Scott
04 S X X S X X Scouser
01 X X X X X B Shash
02 S X X X X X Shelli
07 S X X G S X sister celtic
02 X X X X S X Stephen
01 X X S X X X Su
03 X X X X X G SueEllen
02 X X X X B X Susan
04 S X S X X X Suzy
09 S H S X X X tamara
06 X X B S S B Tanya
01 X X X X X B Terry
03 X X G X X X The Random Yak
13 S X S S S H TNChick
06 S X S S X X Trinity13
03 S X B X X X Veronika
02 X X S X X X Wendy - On the Go Mom
01 X X X X X B Wendy B
12 S X S S G G WendyWings
02 X X X X X S Xmichra
05 X X S X G X YellowRose

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A great big thank you to TNChick for hosting a great training camp. you should blogroll her!

CrazieQueen is hosting Blog Olympics Training Camp #6 on May 1. She always has crazy things going on at the palace, and everyone has a ton of fun at her blog. I'm so pleased she's hosting the next camp.

If you would like me to send you an email reminder before the Blog Olympics Training Camps, please send me email.

If you would like to host an upcoming Blog Olympics Training Camps, please send me email.

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Peregrine falcon birdcam at Kodak

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Mariah rises from her eggs for a moment to pick up a rock. Falcons will rub their beaks against a rock to clean them after eating, this is called feaking. Mariah and Kaver take turns incubating the eggs. All six eggs appear to be intact. Picture from the Kodak Birdcam

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Thank you to all who played....

A big thank you to TNChick, who did a wonderful job hosting the Blog Olympic Training Camp. Many thanks to all the Olympian and Olympian hopefuls who competed at the camp.

Congratulations on winning gold, silver and bronze!!

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