The Pie Dudes

Downtime

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Momster.
Categories: Information, Momster, Ry-Guy, Z-dude's Thoughts.

Even though we don’t update here near as often as we should and would like to, just a quick note to let you know that we were notified the site would be down for several hours Friday, July 3rd. There’s every chance the site might not come back on line or that this blog will still be here.

No worries. If that happens, we’ve backed everything up and will restore it, however, it won’t be for a few weeks and possibly, depending on how big a problem we’re facing, may not even be restored until the fall.

Momster will handcode a page with more information if that happens.

Have a happy and safe Independence Day everyone!

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Auto Shop and Homework 101

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Pie Dudes.
Categories: All Things Pie, Pies, Ry-Guy, School, Z-dude's Thoughts.

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Like Mother, Like Son

Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Momster.
Categories: All Things Pie, Z-dude's Thoughts.

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Sponsors Requested

Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Ry Guy.
Categories: Activities, All Things Pie, Fundraisers, Information, Momster, News, Pies, Ry-Guy, School.

Z-dude and I are getting ready to participate in our school’s annual Jog-A-Thon.  You can read more about it by going to Momster’s blog at http://www.ejourn.net/journal.

Here’s the dealy-o.  I wanted to go to watch a taping of the Ellen Show but when Momster looked it up on Ellen’s website, they say that audience members have to be 14 and older.  Phooie.  So I got to thinking that maybe I could have her get in touch with Ellen and see if maybe Ellen would consider sponsoring us for the upcoming Jog-A-Thon.  And seeing that I like to dance and she likes to dance, if she does sponsor me (or us), I’ll dance the entire way!

Momster came up with another idea which we thought was pretty good, but she already wrote about it.  So go check it out and if you’re willing to sponsor us, leave her a comment!

The post on her blog is here: http://ejourn.net/journal/archives/461

Peace out!

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Oregon Coast Aquarium

Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Ry Guy.
Categories: All Things Pie, Reviews, Ry-Guy, What I Did This Summer.

          I’ve been to a few aquariums, but one of the best ones I went to was this last summer - the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon.  It was kind of funny how we ended up going there.  The day before, we headed out to the dunes and headed right back because  it was too windy.  Wind and sand isn’t a good combination, it really stings when it slaps your face!  Since our original plans weren’t working out too good, my mom had gone to the ranger station and while she was talking to the rangers, my brother and I grabbed handfuls of brochures on “what to do.”  It paid off because we whipped out the one about the aquarium and thought, “what the heck?”  It was better than sitting around staring at the walls or getting dragged to some funky shop my mom wanted to check out.
          Right away we thought it wasn’t going to be so bad, there was a lot of parking and it kind of reminded us of the aquarium in San Francisco.  Well, it reminded Mom of that one, that’s what she said when we pulled into the lot.  We figured we would be in and back out within the hour.
          The first section we went through were where all the aquariums were.  It was where the smaller fish like sea horses, tropical looking fish with bright colors, clown fish, regal blue tang fish (like Dory from Finding Nemo) and some of the small jellyfish were in different built in and freestanding aquariums.  Almost everything we saw was a native to the Oregon coast.  It was surprising to learn that there are sea horses off the Oregon coast!  I thought they would have been someplace down by the Equator. We did know about the jellyfish, though.  We had been to the ocean a few years ago and there were a whole bunch of dead, washed up jellyfish along the beach.  We had to be careful walking around them because if you step on them you can get stung even though they are dead.  That section wound around and it took us almost a half-an hour before we reached some of the hands-on exhibits.
          The very first one was a wide case that stood right about the same height as a kindergarten table.  I thought the people standing around were crazy because there wasn’t anything in there.  I tried looking for what could have been inside, even looking to see if whatever it was jumped out!  But then my brother, Z-Dude, was moving his hands through the water and something moved!  It surprised both of us.  Inside there were really small, sand-colored manna rays also known as stingrays. We got to touch them.  They were soft, almost like silk except if you moved your hand from tail to head, they were scaly and rough.  The person there from the aquarium said that’s because there are tiny little razor-like teeth underneath. 
          Moving down the hall we came upon a “visiting” exhibit.  Inside were these crazy looking crabs.  They are the largest crabs in the world and come from Japan, called Japanese Giant Spider Crabs.  What made them so weird looking was that their legs were super long, like Daddy-Long-Legs long.
          Inside all of these tanks was the most fascinating art work on display. The museum hired some artists to create the different “art” that went into the tanks.  There were huge glass-blown chains that looked like actual chains that would have moored a boat or, like the one in the sea horse tank, a necklace of Lifesavers.  Some looked like seaweed, some like lily pads, some were like flames in different colors: bright orange, green, purple and pink. There was one that looked like an old fashioned milk bottle, another that looked like someone lost their boot.  It was like going to an art museum and the aquarium at the very same time and very, very cool. 
          We got to play in the tide pools, watching as the water bubbled over the rocks and the foam stuck on the backs the creatures hidden along the “shoreline.”  There were sea anemones, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and colorful starfish.  Did you know that starfish have teeth right at their belly?  Ah, but we haven’t even been halfway through the aquarium yet!
          Outside in a cave down in the dark there was a tank hidden away in the corner.  We couldn’t see very well inside and looked around to try to figure out what was supposed to be in there.  Right about the time Z-dude read the sign saying “Giant Octopus” I saw a huge eye blinking at me.  It was the size of my cat’s head!  Now that was kind of spooky. 
          Then we moved on to the puffins, they are birds that look a bit like an erect crested penguin and kind of like the extinct Dodo birds.  They’re a rock hopper bird meaning they spend most of their time in the rocks nearby the ocean and only a small amount actually flying.  My mom liked watching those the most.  But me?  I was interested in moving on to the sea lions and then… a very cool mammal. 
          The sea lions I’ve seen before.  My aunt lives in San Francisco and so we sometimes go to the wharf where lots and lots of sea lions bask in the sun on the docks.  They’re lazy and stinky but from far away, they’re fun to watch.  These were pretty funny even though they were all trying to sleep up on one of the rocks in the display.  Like I said, they’re lazy.
          Now, the sea otters are exactly opposite the sea lions which is why they were one of my more favorite exhibits.  I could have easily spent the day sitting there watching them swim around their “pond.”  They would dive to the bottom to grab up shells the people working at the aquarium would toss in there for them to play with.  And then they would roll onto their backs and swim around. 
          So if you are ever on the Oregon coast, definitely go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, you will thank me!  Make sure you bring a camera, too.

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A Published Writer: Earthquakes

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Momster.
Categories: Z-dude's Thoughts.

Earthquakes

By: Z-Dude
California, Age 12

Once on earth lived Masashi, and Kishmoto. Masashi is loud, he changes his mood quickly, and is great friends with Kishmoto, even though Kishmoto is the complete opposite of Masashi.
Masashi, and Kishmoto had sent a horrible cheese monster Unuzi to the underworld where he stumbled on the huge red button.
“Sup,” Masashi said.
“Hey du-” A goldish brown dust came up under them.
“Whoa.”
“Hmm…”
“…Dude tha-”
“I know what your thinking.”He was thinking, Hmm that must be Unuzi.
“Okay lets go to the underworld.”Masashi sighed.
“Unu-” shouted Kishmoto.
“Whoa dude.” Masashi said looking at the mess of wires and red buttons as he pressed one.
BAM!!!
And that my friend is how the element of earthquakes came to be.

Z-Dude (c) 2007-2008 All rights reserved
Published on Scholastic.com

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The Hockey Game

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Ry Guy.
Categories: All Things Pie, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Ry-Guy, Sports.

I like to play sports. I’ve played baseball since I was about seven years old, starting with t-ball.  This last spring was my final year of playing on the majors in Little League baseball.  Next year, who knows?  I might go on to play in Juniors or maybe just take a season off, this last season was kind of messed up.  But baseball isn’t the only sport I like to play or have tried out.  At school, I’ve been known to play a pretty mean game of soccer during recess.  And for a couple of years, I played flag football.  My mom played high school basketball and it’s fun to shoot hoops with her or play a little one-on-one after school.  I swim, tried a game of water polo, even volleyball both in the water and on the beach.  One thing I haven’t really tried is hockey.

Now, I like flag football, but when I saw that real football meant crushing your opponent, I wasn’t too sure I wanted to play tackle football.  And then there’s wrestling and boxing.  Boxing is heck of cool.  My uncle and I play around kick boxing, but those kinds of opportunities don’t come around much since he lives in San Diego and works in Tijuana, Mexico.  That’s a long commute just to play around and not really do kick boxing.  If you were to corner me and ask me what my favorite sport is, it would have to be kick boxing.

I used to think it would be fun to wrestle like the guys on World Wrestling Federation, but then I found out it was all fake. I watched the real stuff on television during the Olympics.  I can tell you that was not what I thought it was and no longer wanted to roll around on the mat smelling some other dude’s stinky armpits.  After I figured I didn‘t want to wrestle, a friend of mine was talking about this guy who was wrestling and the other kid had gotten his teeth stuck in the kid’s head.  It was pretty freaky hearing about how this kid with the other kid’s teeth was moving all around the mats trying to get “undone.“  Yeah, that’s definitely not for me.  But hockey?  I’ve played around outside with a hockey stick my dad got me one year for my birthday and it’s fun.  But then I saw it on TV and I thought, heck yeah, that’s something I really want to do!  And then we got the video game, NHL, and couldn’t wait to do it for real.

So, the story goes like this.  I helped out in the school cafeteria after lunch with a couple of my friends.  Someone got the bright idea to use the brooms as hockey sticks.  We found a Gatorade cap and were having a blast shooting the “puck” all over the gym floor.  Yeah, it’s all fun and games until someone looses an eye … or in my case, until someone needs stitches over their eye.  One of the kids, I won’t use his name (Mom says it’s to protect his identity or something), reared back with his “stick” and smacked my forehead.  It stung pretty bad, so I decided to leave the cafeteria and go outside to play wiffle ball.  On my way there, some kid asked what that “red” stuff on my forehead.  I reached up, wiped my hand across my forehead, looked and saw it was all bloody.   The next thing I knew, my Dad had to come take me to the emergency room where I wound up having to get five stitches. 

If you’re curious as to if I still want to play hockey after that, you’ll have to wait and read my tale about when I was “skating” through the house a few years after the cafeteria incident.

By Ry-Guy (C) 2008, All Rights Reserved

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Hanna Floodtana

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Pie Dudes.
Categories: C Man.

by C-Man, honorary Pie Dude

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Awesome Book Coming to Film!

Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Momster.
Categories: All Things Pie, Books, Movies, Reviews, What I Did This Summer, Z-dude's Thoughts.

Z-dude here.  I just got finished reading The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau … for the second time.  It is an awesome book!  I was looking at her website to find out about the sequel, The People of Sparks and that’s when I saw the information about the movie. Go check it out yourself.

Peace out.

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Our YoYo Playlist

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Pie Dudes.
Categories: Activities, All Things Pie, Ry-Guy, YoYo, Z-dude's Thoughts.

Yeah, it’s been a while.  But hey, here’s something new and entertaining.  Oh and GO PADRES! heheheheh

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