April 26th, 2019

Hello everybody! How are you? I am okay. Mom and Oliver went to Shiocton this week to see the sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). They happened to be there when the WDNR were catching a very big female fish for her eggs. Mom had never seen a sturgeon up that close before-- well, out of the water at all.

After they took her out of the water, they laid her down on a mat near the edge. They seemed to keep her out of the water for a long time. I guess she was a very big fish so she could stay out of the water for longer then you'd think. They measured her and she ended up being 177 inches or almost 500 centimeters long. I wonder how old she was? The only way you can age a fish is to look at their ear bones, and they need to be dead for that, so who knows! She had to be pretty old to be that big though!

I hope you all have a great day! Talk to you later!

August 24th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I’m okay. I don’t have much to report today, but I do have a visitor that Mom and Oliver ran across yesterday.

This is a common garter snake. Mom and Oliver were walking around the yard and it startled them. After Mom took the picture, it stayed still like it thought that they’d forget that it was there. Oliver didn’t even seem to think it was there at all. (That’s a good thing—Oliver might’ve harassed it until it bit.)
Talk to you next week!

August 3rd, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? I am okay. It’s been pretty quiet. Mom has worked every day since the county fair, so there is not much new things to report. I thought I would share a few more pictures from the fair.

This is a Holstein calf from the petting zoo. It wasn’t very interested in people. Mom said that being a petting zoo calf would probably be pretty boring.

This donkey, on the other hand, was pretty fond of everyone. (Mom thought it might be because there was a better chance that the donkey was a pet, rather than a farm animal.)
I hope you all have a good week. Talk to you next week!

July 27th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? It has been rather nice here in Wisconsin. The heat has finally cracked some, so it’s not so hot and humid. (I’m glad I’m a bear and the humidity doesn’t bother me as much as it bothers Mom.)

Mom went to the Outagamie County Fair! She mostly goes to look at all the animals! This is a nubian goat!

I love ducks! Mom took this picture of a runner duck for me! Do you like farm animals? Do you have a favorite? Talk to you next week!

June 29th, 2018

Hello everyone! How are you? Mom has been on vacation this week. It has been pretty quiet—which isn’t a bad thing. She had some people over on Sunday for her birthday party. On her birthday proper, we went out for lunch with her sister. It was rather quiet.

Yesterday, she went mushroom hunting! Mom just takes pictures. Our identification books are at her sister’s, so we don’t know which kind of mushrooms these are.

I think mushrooms are cool. They grow in all sorts of places! I like how many different forms there are. Some of them can be very dangerous!
Talk to you next week!

April 22nd, 2016

How is everyone! Spring has finally hit Wisconsin! Today was 60 degrees Fahrenheit! (Which is about 16 degrees Celsius for the rest of the world!) Mom, Oliver, and I sat outside on the porch for an hour or so this afternoon, and then for another half hour this evening.
Yesterday, Mom, Grandma, and Caleb went to Waupaca. It’s about a half hour away from home. They ate at a restaurant that had an outside seating area. Mom took this picture!

How is the weather where you live? Mom and I like sitting outside in the spring. I don’t like the really hot weather, so this is nice.

This is near where Mom’s sister—and Graham live. This is in Berlin, Wisconsin. Isn’t the sky so blue! Mom says that you can tell when winter lasts too long in Wisconsin when we’re impressed with bright, blue skies!
I hope everyone is having a good day!

March 1st, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. I love trains and I wish I could have gone! But these pictures almost make up for it!

Outside the museum itself, there is a huge shed that they keep more trains in. It was rather dark and everything was covered in layers of dust! Some of the trains are in need of restoration, but it is better then sitting outside all year long.

There really wasn’t a lot of labels, so Mom is not sure which train is which. Oddly enough, there is more information on Wikipedia about which train is which then on the museum’s website!

This is the full sized Aerotrain from the other post. It looks kind of like a car to me! Maybe like a rocket ship! There were several cars behind it.

This was a train without a label. Mom thinks it is from the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad. It is a steam train.

This is a boxcar that Mom liked because it was from Wisconsin. Wikipedia says that it is a replica though.

Wikipedia says that this is a tank car that used to hold vinegar. That would be a lot of vinegar!

And because every train blog post should end with a caboose, here is a picture of an Illinois Central wide version caboose, pulled by a Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad Alco S-3 engine.

I hope some of you enjoyed my train pictures as much as I did! I love trains! They’re so big!

February 20th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin to look at trains. I wish I could have gone with, but these pictures almost make up for it!

This time we are going to show pictures of the trains that are in a huge building. These are the trains that they’ve cleaned the outsides. There actually were a few of them that you could go inside and look too!

This is the Dwight D. Eisenhower, a steam locomotive that General Eisenhower used to travel around Great Britain and Europe during World War II.

Caleb really liked the logo!

This is the Union Pacific Big Boy. It is the longest steam train ever made. It is 134 feet (41 meters) long and weighs 1.25 million pounds (0.6 million kilograms).

Mom says that it was HUGE.

This is a Pennsylvania Railroad CG1. It is an electric train!

That is how it connected to the power lines above the rail lines.

Next time, we’ll show you pictures of the trains that were left outside in a covered shed.

February 15th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went on another trip. This time they went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. I love trains! I wish I could have gone, but these pictures almost make up for it!

My mom went here when she was a little girl. The outside looks pretty much the same, but the inside has changed a lot! There were three different parts of the museum. We’re going to show the pictures from the first part today.

This is a diorama detailing the making of the railroad. Mom liked the horses in the background.

They had a few models of trains. There are different scales of train models, so they’re different sizes.

This was about as old as they got. Mom thought that they should have more about the history of railroading, rather then the railroad after the 1900s.

This one was pretty cool. They had the full sized engine and a few cars outside! It was called the Aerotrain.

These are called drumheads. On the back of a train’s caboose, they had a neon size that proclaimed the name of the train. A man named Frederick Bauer collected them and donated it to the museum.

This was Mom’s favorite!
Next time, I’ll tell you about the big trains that are inside the building. They are all cleaned up and shiny!

February 11th, 2012

This will be the last of our Milwaukee Public Museum posts. This is more of a collection of the odd things that we found interesting, but didn’t want to have an entire post about!

This is an Egyptian mummy—well, his sarcophagus —named Djed-Hor. Googling it came up with an interesting article about him. He might have gone through brain surgery when he was alive!

This is a reproduction of the Rosetta Stone. It’s amazing how one piece of stone can reveal so much about history!

And finally, this is a reproduction of an Asian statue that Mom found in the Asian wing. It’s supposed to be a lion! I think he looks very fierce!

February 8th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom went with her parents to the Milwaukee Public Museum and took a lot of pictures! We’ve got two more bunches that we want to share with you.

In the Milwaukee Public Museum, there is a special wing called the Puelicher Butterfly Wing. Among the many exhibits talking about biodiversity and saving endangered insects, there is a hothouse room full of greenery and butterflies! According to Wikipedia, it is called a butterfly zoo!

We don’t know any of the names of these butterflies, but they’re so pretty I don’t think it matters!

They were all different colors. These black and orange ones were more likely to stay still long enough so Mom could take a picture.

Her parents were in quite the hurry, so she didn’t take too many pictures! This is another place that Mom hopes to come back and visit!

February 1st, 2012

A week or so ago, my mom went with Caleb and her parents to the Milwaukee Public Museum to see the Cleopatra exhibit. Unfortunately, they didn’t allow photos inside the exhibit, but they let you take pictures in the museum itself. So Mom, being the person she is, took LOTS of pictures! I thought we would share some of them with you!

The Milwaukee Public Museum itself is from 1882. This means that they have lots of exhibits that sort of show different time periods of museum exhibits themselves. The museum moved into it’s present day building in 1965, and the grand part of the museum sort of dates to then. Most of the museum itself is divided up into different continents. In the wings, they have dioramas of different parts of the world. Mom was mostly interested in the animals.

This is a photo of one of the exhibits from the Americas. This is a manatee from Florida.

This is an albatross. It was in the exhibit with the Artic animals. Albatross are really big birds. Mom says that she wants to see one in real life someday!

This is a rhino from the African exhibit. We like rhinos around here—Mom saw a rhino in a zoo when she went to Kansas City a long time ago.

Mom took lots of pictures of the different animals in the dioramas. We’re not going to make this post any longer, but if you want to see them they’re on her Facebook page. We’ve got some more posts lined up!