Yesterday there was a Harley -Davidson motor-bike rally and about 80 bikes came whizzing past our drive-way. It was a sunny day and their paint jobs looked awesome. In the middle of the group there was a Triumph. All of them tooted and waved to all of us. Our family sat on our neigbour's fence with him.  Len is a keen motorbike man, and so are Grandad and my Dad.

If you don't know what a HOG is, it the name for the "Harley -Davidson Owners Group"

My Million

1) I would buy a PS4 for myself.

2) I would buy Zonda for my family.

 3) I would donate money to  World Vision .

Once upon a time there was a girl called Isabella. She had a secret life as a spy. One day she was playing in the park when her spy pad beeped. A spy pad is a gadget that is 1000 gadgets in one cool machine. It had a mission:

Then the mission is history.

Today we went to Otorohanga to the Kiwi House. Atu, the great spotted Kiwi came right up to the glass and pecked at it. The Keeper let Mac and me feed a peanut to the Kaka!!!

We saw the Pig Goose .. it looks like a goose, but sounds like a pig!! I gave it some pellets and it snapped my finger as well!!

Our family went to Waitete Bay. It is north of Coromandel. We had 2 days of gales and storms, but still Dad, Mac and I went down to the beach in the worst possible weather. Mac went swimming until he was purple!! The rest was sunny and we loved it. We hit stones with wood . We picked up bags of rubbish too. We found giant oyster fossils in the rocks and I found one the size of my thumb nail. It was on a loose rock and I  took it home. We had yummy fish and chips at Barbara's house.

Last week we made feeders for the birds to have during winter.

If you want to made one, what you need is:

fat

bird seed

raisins

a mesh bag

What to do:

melt the fat and add seed and raisins

put mesh bag inside a container and pour in the fat.

When it has set, tie off the bag and hang it in a tree out of reach of cats.

On Saturday my family went to the Hamilton Zoo.

A cappachin monkey came right up to the glass and showed us his teeth, and then poked out his tongue. I think it was a friendly gesture ..... he looked like he was smiling.

The Sumatran tiger was 3m away from the glass, sleeping in the sun.  I have never seen him that close before, he usually hides.

My favourite animals are monkeys.

Grandma and I have been ordering seeds for next spring. We order some new things every year. This year we have ordered some "cat grass". Cats eat it and like to sleep on it. We are going to give our cat Princess a patch of garden with her own grass.

Miss Knight would you like some seed to make a patch for your cat Molly?

Last week Auntie Kim came to stay. She showed is how to make pasta from scratch. It is just flour and Finn's eggs. Mac and I made twisties, numbers, letters and ravioli. In my ravioli I put garlic, cheese, chicken and herbs. It tasted WONDERFUL=http://=http://=http://!!

I really enjoy playing this game on the computer. I need an adult to help with some of the countries, but I'm learning more every time I play. I am now an Inspector because I have solved so many crimes!!

Have you read the Wild Rescue books? They are very exciting. They are about a brother and sister working for an organisation called "Wild". They have a gadget called a bug [Brilliant Undercover Gizzmo]. They are given missions to save endangered animals. So far I have read 1 and 2 and they are about a Sumatran tiger [1], and a giant panda[2]. There are 2 more books coming out this year and I am looking out for them because they look cool=http://!

We found a hedgehog under a tree in my chook pen. It was on it's back, stuck in the mud, and couldn't move. Grandma rolled it over, but it still couldn't move because it had so much mud stuck to it's back and feet. Grandad found a box and we made a nest out of hay. We gave it a drink and a piece of dog roll, and my little brother gave it 3 cars to play with!!! The mud is dry and is coming off, so today we are going to make it a safe little house under a tree. We know hedgehogs live there because we saw them bring their babies out last spring.

I like : Warm bed and wheaty bag - hot lemon honey drinks - a fire in the fireplace - hot food . What are your favourite winter things?

We had a vote in our house about whether Armstrong actually walked on the moon. Everyone except my Mum said "yes". What do you think?

I have been working hard at my piano homework over the holidays.  I am learning quarter rests and whole rests, and melodic and harmonic intervals.  I have started playing with both hands.  Grandma has a book I like with a song in the back. I am going to learn to play the song to surprise my piano teacher.

I help Dad and Grandad with the firewood. They chopped it and I put it in the wheelbarrow and stacked it in the shed.  Then I helped Grandma with the gardening.  When we went to Palmers garden centre to buy some more garlic to plant, we stopped for a coffee and I had a pie! (but not a coffee!)

On Thursday Mum and Dad and Mac and I went to the movies to watch Ice Age 3.  My favourite part is when the girl squirrel ripped an acorn off the boy squirrels tummy and left a bald patch!!  I had an orange chocolate chip chocolate covered icecream

Yesterday Mum and Dad bought Mac and I the game of Transformers Risk.  I play Risk on the computer, but this is a board game and I'm going to play it on Saturday with my family.

Today we bought an amazing apple tree. It has 3 varieties of apples on one tree. A clever person grafts pieces of the 3 different apples on to 1 root. We also bought an orange raspberry, so now we have red, black and orange berries. We bought a boysenberry for Grandad , it's his favourite fruit.

Last weekend my brother and I camped in our bedroom. Mum and Dad put up the tent, and we watched Pokemon movie no 10 on Mum's laptop. We had hot-dogs for tea, and snacks in our tent. I went to sleep before my brother, and he ate some of the chocolate.

Dad and Mum got me some Pokemon cards. I now have 140 of them. My favourite one is Empoleon. He is level 49 and he is a stage 2 Water type Pokemon. He has 130 hit points! His moves are Dual Splash and Surf Together.

I play with my Dad and I win every time!

On Sunday afternoon Mum and I had a mega play station session on Harry Potter. I FINALLY GOT THE CARPE RETRACTUM SPELL=http://!  Mum is good at solving the clues, and I work the controls and fight the bad guys. This is a favourite Sunday afternoon thing that Mum and I do. She loves Harry Potter too.

I HAVE ALL THE ZAC POWER BOOKS.

We went to the garden shop to get seeds for our garden. Last year we got  white, yellow, purple and orange carrots. My brother and I liked the purple ones the best, and we are trying red ones too this year. The red carrot seeds are called "Dragons", and the purple ones are " Purple Haze F1".

I went to Temple Cottage in Kihikihi and there is an old  jail there. My Grandma has the key to get in and my brother and I played in there. We saw a person in one of the cells, but it was a model of a man. We pretended we were locked up and Grandma looked at us through the lttle window. She let us out to go home for tea=http://=http://!!

There are 4 new Zac Power books. I have found 2 of the 4 and they are amazing. He has to find BIG [the bad guys] at Thrill Ride.I won't tell you any more because it will spoil the suprise when you read the book.

Today Grandma and I worked in our garden. We planted sweetpea seeds that my cousin, Nicole, gave me for my birthday. Sweetpeas are my Nona's [Italian nana] favourite flowers and I will take some to her for a suprise when they flower. The packet says it will take up to 15 weeks for that to happen. The packet says it contains 15 seeds approximately, but it actually had 23!!  We also tied up the raspberry canes ready for next spring. I couldn't believe what I saw ... there were still raspberries on, and I enjoyed them immensely. We found a just hatched Monarch butterfly. Her wings were still wet and she couldn't fly. We put her in the sun where the birds couldn't get her, and I am keeping an eye on her.

I have a worm farm. I collect the worm juice for my garden.

Last week I got a parcel from my Auntie Kim . It was the birthday present she said she would organize for me when she went home. The stickers are green and egg shaped and have a photo of me and my 6 chickens. The words say  " Finn's Free Range Eggs ... Laid by Happy Hens" and they are cool.  I feed my hens pellets in the morning and wheat in the afternoon. I love putting my arms into the bag of wheat because it feels like my hands are getting a massage!!!

MY  FAVIRIT  GAME  IS  Chess. I like it because I win it every time. I always choose black.

MY friends are all your blog buddies.

In the holidays my friends came to play.  Oscar and Zebedee, and their 2 sisters came to play for the day.  We baked biscuits, and played lego and gormeties.  It rained all day.  We watched the movie Garfield.  Oscar and Zeb came back the next day, and we played outside on the trampoline.

Lately I have been reading 'choose your own adventure' books.  You read a bit of the story and then you have to choose what the characters should do next out of two options, and then you turn to that page, and carry on the story.

In the school holidays I went to soccer camp. It was very good because I scored the game winning goal in the semi-finals.  Our team was called the brocollis because we were the green team.  I won a silver, red and black skills ball, size 1, and a cool gear bag.  This the third year I have been to soccer camp, and hopefully my brother can come next holidays.

I went to the star dome the day after my birthday. We learned that some stars can "live" for 100 million years. We also learned how to spot different constellations in the night sky. I now know how to find Orion and the Southern Cross.

Today is final game in the Washington Capitals vs The New York Rangers hockey series. I think Washington is going to win and Ovechkin is going to get the hat trick.

JOHN IS SO SO SO SO SO COOL

The Washington Capitals have won their divison and hopefully the Stanley Cup

My birthday was fun.  Grandma and Grandad, and Nonna and Nonno (my Italian grandparents) had tea with us.  We had a picnic tea under the walnut tree in the paddock.  I had chocolate birthday cake covered in M&M lollies.  I got cool cards and presents like a watch and books about space, and a star wars figure. 

My birthday is today it is SO SO FUN =http://