Grandma Pat

This is my Grandpa Pat! She is doing REALLY well. She is done with her Radiation treatments now and everything seems to be going good! Please keep her in your thoughts.

DAKOTA

HISTORY - The Suez Canal

Since the days of the Pharaohs, men had dreamed of a waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez.  Egyptian Legend states that a canal that connected the Nile to the Bitter Seas was actually built in 1500 B.C. by the ruler Sesotris.  It was called the canal of Pharaohs. For the next two thousand years, the Canal of Pharaohs was opened or closed according to the will of the current ruler. One ruler would have the canal filled with sand, while another would have it re-excavated.

Napoleon was the first man in modern times to attempt to build a canal. He led an expedition into Egypt in 1798 and ordered a survey of the area. After a year, Napoleon's surveyor, Jacques Le Pere, came back with a report that the Red Sea was thirty-two feet higher than the Mediterranean Sea. This difference would have to be fixed by building a series of locks. (Otherwise the Red Sea would flood Egypt.)


It is a good thing Napoleon never got a chance to build, because locks were never necessary. Le Pere's calculations were wrong. The Red and Mediterranean sea were almost identical in height.

Later in time, the French government built the canal that Egypt wanted so badly. The canal was open for traffic in 1869.

A Book Review - By Dakota Wagner

   A Book Review

   By Dakota Wagner

Do you like WWII action novels? If so, the exciting book Gunner's Run by Rick Barry is for you!
   Jim Yoder, an American bomber plane waist gunner, is on a bombing mission to Kiel, when things suddenly go wrong. Jim finds himself on the run in Nazi Germany. You will have to read the book to find out what happens next!
   One thing I liked about this book was that is was in a first-person perspective. It makes things very vivid. Another thing I liked is that it is by a Christian author. It helped me learn more about God and his faithfulness.
   I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes history and WWII. The book Gunner's Run is for you!

Homeschool Party

Yesterday, we had a party a my best friend Christian's house. We had a blast. Some of my other friends attended too. Jared, Isaac, Andrew, Nolan, Braydon, Ben, Seth, and a couple more. We had a fun time. We had Burgers, Ribs, and Hot Dogs. I hope we can do it again some time.

DAKOTA

Pingree Penguins @ New Orleans Packers - Game Two

There was a really good turnout for this game. - Over 20 chickens, 4+ Guineas, Two Goats, Two Dogs, and a couple gophers!

The Score was 35 - 28.  The Packers won! My mom and dad played really well, but it wasn't enough to stop us! The first play of the game (us) was a Deep Attack, but I couldn't get open for Dustin! So, dustin ran across the whole field, scrambling, and got a touchdown! When my dad threw a pass to my mom, I jumped up and batted the ball away and gave them a 4th down. When we were ahead and we were going to kick off, WHAM! the clock went off, and we won!

Epic Horns are Epic

it's OVAR 9000!1111!!!!

Whoever can tell me what that means get's a cookie. :P

Pawprint

This is a pawprint I made on Paint.NET

3D Gift I made

This was very hard to make.

Photos

LOL, this is my character on roblox. I think he looks funny. How bout you?

These are fake hills that I made! They look real, don't they?

Have a good day and God bless you!

DAKOTA

Blaze

3D Ball

More 3D Goodies! YAY!

A very poor attempt to make a 3D Ball.... I can do better, but here it is! :)

New Orleans Packers @ Pingree Penguins

Today me, my brother, my mom, and my dad played football. Me and Dustin were the New Orleans Packers and my mom and dad were the Pingree Penguins. The score was 28 - 35. We lost. D:  Each quarter was 5 minutes. The packers and penguins were tied at 28-28 when my dad threw a touchdown pass into the end zone right when the clock rang. My mom caught the amazing pass. It was amazing. We will do this every sunday and I will write about it. (Maybe a video, too!)

DAKOTA

3-D Face

A square lego face I made in my 3d rendering program.

Archery

Today (and yesterday) I went to a 4-H event about archery! I got to arch! (Duh) My Dad, Dustin, and I went. It was very fun! Here is what the range looked like:

Shooting arrows.

You Are Invited!

To: Our Piano Recital
When: Sunday, May 2nd at 2:00 PM

Where: Victory Lutheran Church, Jamestown

3-D Objects

Working on making 3-D objects.... ughh it's hard... D:

SHINY!

Toxic Artwork

I was bored, so I made these!

George and Maggie

The Bible

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?



What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?



What if we flipped through it several time a day?



What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?



What if we used it to receive messages from the text?



What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?



What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?



What if we used it when we traveled?



What if we used it in case of emergency?



This is something to make you go.....hmm...where is my Bible?



Oh, and one more thing.. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.



Makes you stop and think, where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

Messing Around with Photo Effects

There Are a lot of neat things to do with a Transparent-Background photo! I am testing out photo layers in this. The first layer is the smoke, and then I added the Figure. The background behind the figure is transparent, so when I put both layers together, it looks like this:

I used my character on roblox for this picture. Here is another one:

Enjoy! Have a good day. God Bless you,

DAKOTA

Roblox Creations

Here are some creations I have made:

This is a cruise ship I made. It has 1,132 Bricks!

This is a picture of a cart ride I made! It has 2,350 bricks!

I like building things in ROBLOX. It is very fun! I am going to post a castle that I made soon. It has 4,670 bricks! Have a good day,

DAKOTA

ohai

I thought I'd share with you something funny today:

1337


1337 Speak is when someone replaces all the letters in a word with numbers..



It takes a long time to translate between regular English and 1337 even if you know all 26 1337 secrets, unless you're very skilled at it.



Here are the 26 1337 secrets.

A = 4

B = 3


C = (

D = )


E = 3

F = =


G = 6

H = -



I =


J = 9

K =
<

L = 1

M =
v


N =
/
(It is backwards because the frontslash under the backspace key is famous for not showing up on many websites.)

O = 0 (zero)

P =
*

Q = 0,

R =
2

S = 5

T = 7

U =
_


V =
/

W =
/
/

X = ><

Y = `/

Z = 2



S0m3 p30ple 4r3 700 l4zy 70 wri73 7hin65 in fu11 1337, r3su17ing in a 53n73nc3 1ik3 7hi5.






N0W 13N'T T|-|4T C00L?

Some building block artwork I made

Hope you like them!

DAKOTA

How I make shirts on Roblox

Roblox is a very customizable game. One of the features it has it the ability to make clothing for your character. This is how I make mine:



1. I get the template for making a shirt.

This is the template for making shirts. On the left it shows the a graph on how the shirt will look like on the character.

This is a finished template I made.

This is what the finished product looks like!