Forget the influence of Peppa pig! (If you don’t remember that particular post very well, feel free quickly catch up here: https://blahblahblog.topliff.com/page/2/. Due to the way I publish the posts, you have to scroll down a bit to get to the Influence of Peppa Pig.

Anyway, Doc got a Jake and The Neverland Pirates treasure box filled with a sword, treasure geh-shure map, compass, bandana, and spyglass. He loves them so much and takes them everywhere he goes. When he gets tired of playing with his spyglass, he usually attempts to have a sword fight with you. You can usually tell that he wants to have a sword fight when he screams “En Garde” at the top of his lungs. (But it usually comes out as “AW-gard.” He says it super fast and in one word. I want to show you the pictures of Captain Doc in all his Pirate Glory!

Also, 10 years and 1 day ago I started my first day at Bright Beginnings Montessori. It was one of those Instagram things were it tells you how many years ago on that day, but my Mom showed the photos to me late last night right before the power went out so I didn’t get to blog about them until today. (More on the power outage later.)

Now for the power outage subject. Last night at about 7:00 or so the wind (which was already super crazy and knocking pine cones into our backyard) got even windier and a bunch of tree branches fell near our house. The power was out until about 8:45 this morning. You can tell we are a very responsible family because at 9:30 pm, when we got out generator up and running, we used its precious time and power to watch an episode of TV and charge our phones. Yep, super responsible. Also we found out a really cool way to make a lantern. All you need is a milk jug, water, duct tape, and a working flashlight.

What you do is fill the milk jug with water and place the flashlight over the opening. Then you duct tape the flashlight to the jug so that the light part shines into the water. And there you have it, a heavy but pretty good DIY lantern! (Just make sure you have replacement batteries near by just in case…)

Lastly, school starts for me tomorrow and I just want to say that if there is a lack of posts I am really sorry. I will do my best to keep up, but chances are that I will fall a bit behind. You will most likely get a post once a week. Happy start of school! (Though for most of you it already started.)

-Grace

P.S. Make sure to check out this link! It is 30 of the worlds most funniest tombstones! World’s Best Tombstones! Enjoy!