The Process of Embalming

For history my sister Molly and I were supposed to show the process of Mummification, or Embalming and post it in our blogs. Now, we don't have everything perfect, we only have two organs and two canopic jars, and the whole process lasted 70 days, not half an hour. So here's my post. Hope you enjoy it!

1. Make a slit in the left side of the deceased

2. Take out the lungs, liver, intestines and stomach and place them into four canopic jars

3. Use a needle and stick it in the nose. Use it to stir the brains into a jelly like substance. tip the body up and let the brain drain out. Then use the needle to scoop the rest of brains from the nose to dispose of

4. Cover the body in salts to dry it out to preserve it

5. Wrap the body in linen strips and place good luck charms on it

6. A priest wearing a jackal mask will place a death mask on the deceased and finish the prayers.

7. The body is now ready to be buried

Spring floods {Or, What do you mean every thing is flooding already?!}

Every year, when the snow melts and our creek floods its banks, we have water every where. Only this year its especially bad. And really early for it, I mean, come on, it's the middle of January and were having our spring thaw already!

So the water, which is still partially frozen, started flooding across our road and causing problems, so my Dad and I went out there with a shovel and pinch bar and dug several canal like passages through the ice to drain the water away.

And so far it's working great, I mean, we diverted several hundred if not thousands of gallons to our creek on the other side of our driveway. The only down side is, while doing it, since I was wearing tennis shoes my feet got all wet. Oh well. A small price to pay.

Journalism Class

My Mom enrolled Molly and I into a journalism class at the 'Center of Discovery', a home school resource group here, that puts on different camps and classes on different subjects.



This is my second class at the Center, my first was a camp on Gettysburg, but it's Molly's first.



The classes are on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 11:30, which means a 6:30 wake-up to get there on time, which was bad news for me since I had to wake up at 6:00 on Monday. I had a bad headache and couldn't really concentrate.



We all wrote a news paper article on the wolf's death in the story of the Three Little Pigs. By the time the course ends in May, we will have created our own newspaper.