Louisa the Litter Queen

This is Bailey Fish. I'm 11 and I live in Louisa County, Virginia, with my grandmother, Sugar. We just came back from spending two hours picking up litter on a road near our house. It isn't a long road but it was so filled with litter and trash that it was disgusting. Lots of roads in Louisa are a mess like this one. It's as if people here like to look at litter instead of trees or flowers. We picked up five huge bags of litter and ran out of bags. There were tons of beer bottles and cans; water bottles, Pepsi cans, cigarette boxes, a dirty diaper, papers and lots of papers and plastic things from McDonald's. You have to drive pretty far from McDonald's to get to our street to throw things out. And there was a lot of trash that had a lady's name on it. Sugar says I shouldn't use that name in this blog even though I want to. Her trash included receipts from Starbucks and other places in Frederickburg--an hour away.

I wish kids could do something to make adults stop littering in Louisa County and Lake Anna. I wish we could get Governor Kaine or maybe our supervisors to have a bottle law so that people would get money back when they return bottles and cans to stores. A lot of states do that and their roads are cleaner. And kids should tell their parents and big brothers and sisters not to litter. Louisa could be a pretty place if the roads didn't look so yucky. I wish people cared.
Bailey

Winter again

Brrrr. It's quite a difference spending the winter in Virginia versus Hawaii. We had two lovely weeks there earlier this month. There was only one time we were cold, and that was at an altitude of 10,000 feet at the top of the Haleakala volcano on E. Maui. The wind was fierce, too. Being at the crater was like standing on the moon. We saw other volcano craters at Volcano National Park on Hawaii, and also the rare nene bird--a type of goose. That was exciting. My husband saw a mongoose one day, but I missed it. A lot of the coastal vegetation looked like what grew in Florida where we used to live.

I was particularly fascinated by the history of the islands and visiting Pearl Harbor.

We really enjoyed the trip. But now it's back to brrrr.

Jamestown book's teacher guide available

Teachers and Homeschool parents: Thanks to the hard work of teacher and author Holly Moulder, we can now offer a comprehensive and fun Teacher's Guide (on disk) for The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase. For information, contact Tabby House at tabbyhouse@gmail.com