Smoking Ants

I found a magnifying glass, so I tried burning some ants. If you think that it's cruel to burn living things alive (I do) don't worry, the ants were already dead. No torture involved. So anyways, I focused the light on the body, and it actually started smoking! No fire, of course, it wasn't hot enough for that (the temperature was 23 Celsius) but it was still really cool! I just burned a few leaves after that, nothing much.

Then I was looking at all the bees pollinating the flowers with the magnifying glass, and it was really cool! I could see all the little fuzzy hairs on their backs. They were mostly on the raspberry flowers. I think those must be there favorites.

Today was Bianca's (my best friend) last day of school. Tomorrow she and her family are driving all the way to North Carolina, then driving from there to Miami, and then taking a plan from Miami to Honduras, where she was born. She's really excited. She made a card for our bus driver, Grace, (who ROCKS!) and she really liked it. I'm really going to miss Bianca, but at least she'll be having fun.

My last day of school is on the 25th, so I still have a few days left. My brother's leaving tonight at six to go camping for the Air Cadets thing. I hope he has fun there. I have no idea what they do, all I know is that they have a comfort station there. That's all the flight leaders told them. He's coming back on Sunday, I think.