A great storm

I have decide to take a break from posting my Europe scrapbook, to tell you about the storm East TN had yesterday afternoon. It started off as a fairly pretty day, and late afternoon it started to get dark outside and about 3 seconds late it is pouring rain. Literary I was soaked by the time I walked the 20 feet to my car. I drove home and as I approached my driveway I found a big tree laying across the road and I could not get home. Finally my dad arrived and with this help the tree was removed from the road.

Another Snow Day

Well, I didn’t get a chance to take pictures of my car in a ditch, because my dad’s way home he drove it out of the ditch. After he got home and changed, I got snow driving lessons and I am now fairly comfortable driving up and down our driveway (it’s a mile long and all gravel). Last night I got a text message from one of my friends stating that there was no school again. I was fairly surprised. The first thing I did was get on the internet and check to see if it was true. I trust my friend but as the saying goes seeing is believing.
Here are some more snow pictures

This is an intresting stump I found.

A bluebird house surroned by snow.

The half-frozen pond.

A intresting looking tree covered in snow.

The day in the life of a teenager – Snow Day

8:00 a.m. – Wake-up
8:01 a.m. – Go back to sleep
9:00 a.m. – Watch TV and take a nap
10:45 a.m. – I decide to go for a walk outside and take pictures of the snow. The dog, Maggie, goes with me, in reality I should say that we go walking in the same place. I walk around and she just ran all over and ate snow.
12:00 p.m. – My mom and I decide to go out for lunch. We have a mile long gravel driveway and I want to drive so I could get some experience driving in the snow.
12:05 p.m. – I am driving up the big hill and my car slides into the ditch.
12:20 p.m. – I walk home to get my mom’s car so I can go pick my mother up.
12:30 p.m. – I call my father and tell him I slid my car into the ditch and he laughed at me.

Here are some pictures from my walk, I will post pictures of my car tomorrow.

This is a picture of my house - it is really a log cabin in the middle of the woods.

This is snow stuck to a tree, I thought it looked cool.

This is the 1 acre pond, it is mostly frozen over.

This is my dog Maggie, she in NOT a Dalmation she is an Enlgish Setter.

This is my chicken Annabelle on our deck. She is the sole suvivor of the animal that raided my chicken house. She on lives on the front porch and eats cat food.

The "Firehouse"

Well this picture is of the upstairs of the “firehouse”. I know it looks fairly messy, but that is how I work. In the picture you can see my mother in the background. She helps out a lot. She is my financier and my consulting partner. I design my piece and she tells me what she thinks. A funny story was I had designed a bracelet and was starting to put it together and when I held it up to show her she said I should make it into a necklace and this piece was born.

Back to my workshop, you can see the pasta machine, I commandeered from my mom’s kitchen. Speaking of things I commandeered, in reality I commandeered the whole workshop. My parents originally built the “firehouse” to build kites in and by kites; I mean big ones that can fill a 10 ft. by 10 ft. room (I am not kidding). Well in truth they haven’t built a new kite since I was born and it was available when I need some where to work.

More College News

Well, as my December 26, 2008, states I got accepted to Georgia Tech. Well today I got my second acceptance letter from a college. This time it was my fourth choice, University of Tennessee. I am glad I got accepted but it wasn’t a big surprise that I got accepted. Since I do not have any money offers, yet (and hopefully will get some), I have decide to make a chart about the positives and negatives of my four college choices. I am still working on the chart but I will post it when I make my decision.

On to other things, I am the Boatswain (or president) of Sea Scouts Ship 300. Ship 300 is a youth sailing club and is in desperate need for members. For recruiting purposes, I have developed a website for the ship. For several months I have been putting off updating it. So today, I took a couple of hours and updated the site. It can be seen at TN Ship 300. I designed all parts of this website. You can also see another website I designed at Firehouse Jewelry.

Firehouse Jewelry

Hi,

Well I have decide that it is time to start a blog to promote my jewelry buisness called Firehouse Jewelry. Firehouse Jewelry is a small business owned and operated by a high school senior. I started Firehouse as a way to pay for a trip to Europe. It helped me pay for the trip and provide speeding money. The name firehouse comes from my father. He bought a 1955 American LaFrance Fire Truck. I create my all my jewelry in the upstarts of his “firehouse” (it is really just a two story barn but I call it a firehouse because that’s where he keeps the truck). I make jewelry in my spare time after school. I love what I do and am proud of each piece and hope you enjoy them too.

Jennifer Melroy