Jo's Old Site

Dad found two baby
snakes out the front they were black
and under the mulch.

On My Walks

As I go around the
tree out the front I
sometimes see some
lizards.

My Dog Likes

Ilse likes her toys, and
chasing birds, and she
also likes hunting the
flies.

More Rain Probably

Yesterday my mum told me
that our backyard was alive
with green ants.

Snake Hunting Dogs

Hogan and Stella always
worked together when
they hunted for snakes.

Yesterday mum and I went to Redbank to see The Water Horse movie, and we both enjoyed it as it wasn’t too long or too short and there wasn’t any boring bits. Anyway the story is set around one of the wars and is about a boy who I think is called Angus who is missing his father and trying to fill into his boots. Also later on in the story we find out that Angus’s father is dead and so won’t be returning home. But then the boy finds this egg while he was doing some shell collecting and after he takes it home it soon hatches and Angus tries to look after it though they aren’t allowed to have any pets where they live.

Also as Angus tries to keep this creature from the sea a secret he soon realises that it is becoming harder for him, and attempts to tell his older sister but she isn’t interested; but she soon finds out and is on her brother’s side but then a handyman who just got his job finds out too and he also tries to help Angus out and later on was successful in returning Cristo to the sea but the story didn’t end there as other people also find out about the creature.

And then Cristo discovers that not everyone is kind like Angus, and is hurt when the army was firing bombs into the sea but then Angus goes with Cristo to show her the way to get away. However he couldn’t stay with her and after he swam back to the boat she jumps over the net and Cristo never returned to that place again although Angus did see her one other time in another place. I also found it quite emotional in some parts.

When Liss and I went to see The Golden Compass I was telling her that I have over eighty Haiku Poems on my Haiku page, and she suggested putting some of them here so here are some of my new poems:

Coolest Christmas

It was an overcast
day on Christmas
day two thousand
and seven.

Not So Tasty

When my mother
brought Ilse back
inside my flat a
moth went in
mum’s mouth.

Training Ilse

I was training my
dog Ilse as a man
next door was
mowing his
lawn.

Voice Responsive

When my dog saw
wild ducks she went
to pull on the lead
but then stopped.

The Weather Today

Today I can see a
blue sky and clouds
and can also hear
the wind.

Sometime After Lunch

Sometime after lunch it
turned cloudy and it looks
like we’re in for rain.

Looking Outside

When I looked up one
window was grey, and
the other was blue
with clouds.

We have my two eldest nephews over at the moment Liam and Connor and the last couple of nights, mum and I have been playing a game called Don’t Point The Finger and I think it has been a long time since mum and I laughed so much. Anyway the game plays like this: a person puts the green hand in the middle of the table then switches it on and it goes around two or three times then points to a person, a card is then picked up and they are asked truth or dare? And after we decide a question is read out and before the game begins we’re also given a double dare card (if we don’t feel like doing it ourselves.) But I think only Liam has used the double dare card so far. And sometimes when it is Connor’s turn to do something he get the giggles and doesn’t do it and if that happens the person then has to do something else.