You Can't Putt With Fire Balls

This is the fire that happened right by my house today.

There was a fire at the old abandoned golf course on Hastings St near my house today, right by the shops. There was a gas station right beside where the fire was and if you had looked out my living room window at the time of the fire, we could have seen the flames from our house.  CBC News reported that the flames were thirty meters high. That's about four of my houses stacked on top of each other.

When you look out our window you can see the nets from the golf course, and you could have probably seen the flames. This map shows you how close my house is to the fire. 

This shot below from Google earth shows some interesting and KIND OF SCARY things! The blue dot on the picture is my house. The red marker shows where the fire was. You can see that just north of where the fire is a bunch of round tanks and that is where oil is stored, and right on the bottom left corner by the golf ctr is a gas station. If that fire spread any more the fire could have gone to the gas station or to the oil and if it went to the gas station and the oil there would have been a big explosion (WHICH WOULD BE COOL ON A VIDEO BUT NOT IN REAL LIFE.)

This is a picture below we took this morning and you can see here there is a fire truck and if you look at the white van and just look up a little bit you can see a man on the ladder thingy of a fire truck spraying with a giant hose. We learned they had to keep doing that even after the flames were out to make sure all of the hot spots were not hot.

This is me climbing a cherry tree outside the golf course and winning the cutest person ever award, my 5,788,888,621st one.  

So far, I, Eleanor have been talking and now I will pass the beautiful talking sceptre to Sophia, which I am very sad about doing.

Thank you, Eleanor. After we got told off for climbing the cherry blossom tree, some police women came outside the gate to find out why the security guard at the oil storage place was yelling at us. After we explained that we are NT criminals, we interviewed the officers with some questions about the fire. *Please note that the Q&A below is based on my memory of the interview. This is not the actual conversation.

Q: What is your job as policewomen?

A: We work for the RCMP in a department that investigates frauds. Frauds are when someone lies or makes up something fake to get money that is not theirs. We also investigate arson. Arson is when someone sets a fire on purpose, probably to get money out of insurance.

Q:What do you look for in a scene like this?

A: In cases like this one, we might start by looking for where the fire started, like the origin of the fire. We might look to see if the fire started in the middle of the room, and if there were any accelerants, like gas. We might also look for a gas can. We also have a machine that could search for traces of gas.

Q: What do you know from the investigation so far?

A: Since the fire was so hot, it looks like a suspicious fire, possibly arson. Unfortunately, it's not safe for us to go inside the actual building yet.

Q: I noticed the gas station back there, I was wondering if someone could have bought a lighter from there to start the fire.

A: Yes, it's highly probable, they might has also filled a jerry can with gas there to act as an accelerant, so we'll be looking  at the closed circuit TV from the gas station to see if we can find any possible suspects.

Sophia's moral of the story: "Don't play with matches around abandoned, wood framed golf courses".

Eleanor's moral of the story (after meeting the RCMP fraud investigators): "Women can do anything!"

Brownie Badge: Be A Chef by Eleanor

The simple meal I have cooked is spaghetti it is vey yummy. You eat it with tomato sauce and with the tomato sauce, you eat meatballs with it it's tastes amazing with the meat balls, we usually have salad with it too.

I made a list of ingredients for my Mum and I have gone shopping with her at the store. I am planning my birthday breakfast!

I have made stuff from my kids cookbook. Eggs in Frames, and Juicy Orange Rounds and Happle Bagel Sandwiches.

Here I am making Eggs In Frames.

Before you cook, you have to wash your hands because you might spread your germs you have on your hands, you might have picked your nose or spat on them or touched a hedgehog. You wipe kitchen counters and if you have to cut something you cut it on a cutting board or a plate, and when you're all done your food you have put it in the fridge and wrap it in tin foil or store it in a tupperware, or else it will go rotten.

The names of my favourite utensils are spatula, tongs, shish-ka-bob, macaroni spoon (ha ha) garlic presser and beater.

I use the stove for making soup, frying eggs, boiling water, and I use the microwave to heat up things or just a bit warm to make them hot, like milk.

I help make a lot of our meals, I make pizza from scratch every Friday and I design pizzas awesomely and I have to help with clean up every night except Friday.

Redeema and Other Fairy Stuff by Eleanor

FAIRIES! FAIRIES! FAIRIES!

Ok, ok, you get the point. This year I am going to make a.... FAIRY HOUSE!!!!

And yes, Sophia is going to do it too, I am just pretending she is a little stick. It will have plumbing, it will have electricity, it will have everything.

It's taking a long time because we are building a real house that has shrunk down. We have been meeting with a friend who is a scientist and she is helping us do the plans. I had to draw blueprints, but it didn't work the first time I drew the blueprints, and we had to keep on trying and trying until we got ones that worked. I had to cut cardboard and right now I am in the process of making a cardboard prototype so that way I can know how big I'm going to cut the wood, and sheetrock and everything else, and where everything is going to go.

I am imagining that a fairy family will live there for 5 acorn caps. To get fairy houses like this, that are already built by humans, you have to trade valuable things, like acorn caps. They have a family of 5, and the grandma and grandpa come to live with them, because where they used to live got destroyed by a human baby, so they came to live with them. The family who I think will move in will have one baby and two kids who are about 5 and 8 years old. I think they will have a lovely time there. We are going to build the Grandma and Grandpa's room, the Mum and Dad's room, we're going to build the kids' room, and a baby's room.

Right now I am in the process of building a fairy swingset, a toy box and other things.


A poem by Eleanor Pallister:

In Fairyland

 In fairyland...

a daisy could be a hat.

 In fairyland....

a pebble could be a rock -

a ginormous boulder to babies.

 In fairyland....
                                        the houses would be so tiny

and cute that you would want

to move the whole entire fairyland
into your backyard.

In fairyland....

a hollow tree could fit about
50 fairies.

 In fairyland....

everything is magic.

 In fairyland....

Pixiedust makes everything fly.
Mice can be horses.

 It's hard to go to fairyland...

but keep believing and then you might.

Redeema By Eleanor Pallister, age 7 1/2

This Halloween I was Redeema the Light Fairy. Redeema is a playful, joyful, light fairy. This is the story of Redeema:

Once upon a time, there was a light show. That light show was a special light show. The reason why it was special was that it wasn't lights, it was fairies. And, one of the fairies was Redeema. After the show she was hanging out with her friends in the theatre, stopping to get a coffee, and then behind her in line, was vicious BIG SCARY TIGER!!!! ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then the tiger licked her! And then she started screaming, "Help! Help!" in a deep and bellowing, manly voice. Then the tiger, which was actually little, said, "Hi, my name is Daniel Tiger. Don't worry, I'm actually very friendly." Redeema started shaking and shaking until she fell on the floor. Then the tiger said, "Would you like to come to my house for a playdate?" and then Redeema said, "Ok, unless you don't eat me."

Then his Mum and Redeema and the little tiger went to the coconut car which runs on watermelon milk. And then they drove to his house, but then the friendly tiger forgot he had invited a dragon over for tea! Redeema said, "OH NO! A vicious powerful dragon who eats only blood and flesh!" And then, the friendly tiger's dad came out of his room, and Redeema found out that Daniel Tiger's dad was Lord Business, the evil guy from the Lego movie. Redeema shouted out, "BUUUUTT, BuuuTTT, AAAAACHHOOOOOOO!!!!" She sneezed the biggest sneeze ever which sent her flying backward with pixie dust coming out of her nose. Then the friendly tiger jumped up and bit her dress. Ah ha! So that tiger was NOT a friendly tiger!

Redeema shone light out of her hands and made everyone blind for fifty-eight hours. But she also put them asleep, because a bit of the pixie dust that flew out of her nose got in the lights that flew out of her hands, and pixie dust can make people sleepy who don't use it all the time, so they all went to sleep. And after that she lived at their house and she got used to there being a tiger, Lord Business and a dragon there.

The End