GF Erin

Hey bloggers.  So here in Connecticut we’ve been getting a ton of snow its so ridiculous. There’s probably four feet of snow out there. I’m not the only one who’s tired of it either though. Most of my friends facebook statuses read “sick of snow I want summer” or “no more snow days we’ll never have summer” or”counting the days until warmer weather” and “that groundhog better not have seen his shadow!” My little sister is 6 and she can’t walk through our yard without getting buried in snow. The teachers are getting annoyed because we have a lot of snow days and its messing up their plans in class. To explain my pictures below, my dad and I build homemade Charlie Brown characters for christmas and they’re all about 4 feet tall some shorter none taller than that though. We put them up and they’re usually gone by New Years but because of the snow, we can’t dig them out of the ground! In fact, we haven’t seen ground since 2010!! The only interesting thing about this consistant storm is that the meteorologist for CTs news channel says that this is all because of the flow of the jet stream. Its swerving up and down and up and down like a rollercoaster instead of a straight line causing all the weather to continue to stay the same. Also at one point in January, the only state with absolutley no snow at all was Florida. My cousins live down there and I’m really tempted to send them a big old box of snow! It’ll finally clear up our yard! Have a good day and stay warm!

Charlie Brown before the snow

Charlie Brown now

Hey bloggers. So I’m kind of an invention freak. I like to learn about inventions  and invent things myself. I was doing some research on obscure inventions of the 19th century. There were some bizzare results that came up but one of the coolest things I thought was the invention of the soda fountain. Most people tend to forget about it because it was kind of short lived after fast food and burger joints and all that stuff came out. Instead of there just being a small little thing where you fill up your cups in McDonalds or Burger King there were actual places where you could go just to have a soda. No fries or burgers or McNuggets, just soda. The soda fountain is still around today, but there used to be one specific place where you could go and just have soda.The soda fountain was invented in in the early 1800s and was patented in 1810 by inventors Simons and Rundell in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1858, G.D. Dows invented the first marble soda fountain. The soda fountain shop or resteraunt whatever you want to call it was a popular hang out for people of any age. Today, most kids our age (13-14) usually hang out at a bowling alley or at the movies or something. Back then, most teens probably spent their Friday nights with their “BFFs” (for those who do not speak ”text” that’s Best Friends Forever) at the soda fountain. Hey I wouldn’t mind going to a soda fountain or something, not much to do though except drink soda and talk. Maybe I’ll stick with bowling and pizza and a movie. 19th century isn’t really for me. What do you think though? Should soda fountain shops come back or stay in the past? Leave a comment and let me know. Have a super fantabulous awesomest day

A soda fountain shop still around today, though back then, most shops were in Pharmacys