Black Holes

I'm in a Hogwarts group on Ravelry and this is my 1st assignment for Astronomy:

Black Holes

A black hole is the result of the collapse of a very massive star. Under normal conditions, a star will burn hydrogen fuel, converting it into helium. During the last stages of the star’s life, when the hydrogen fuel runs out, the star begins to burn helium into a heavier element. These elements that are burned, other than hydrogen, create an imbalance between the gravitational forces and the nuclear forces that under normal conditions keep the star stable (see supernova). Due to this imbalance, gravity takes over and the star begins to collapse upon itself until it reaches a point of infinite density and infinitely small size, in other words, a black hole. This black hole creates a massive gravitational effect unlike any other. This effect is so great, that even light cannot escape its gravitational wrath.

A black hole also has an event horizon, the boundary of the black hole where anything inside will feel the effects of gravity. Anything outside the event horizon will not feel these effects. This event horizon plays a role in the emissions a black hole gives off. Though this seems impossible, it really can occur.

A black hole is only created when the star is extremely massive and large; these stars are called super giants.

Information from http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312825/AstroNet/CelBod/cbA04a.htm

It's been awhile

A lot has gone on this summer, and I completely forgot I had started a blog. Well first off, I don't think I've finished anything at all except a hat I tested for a SKY lady on Crochetville. I started a baby blanket for my godmother's first grandbaby, Savannah. I also started a baby blanket for own baby, due in January. Yes, a new baby! It's going to be another boy so now I'll have little Stevie (who will be 2 in February) and this new little one. I'll be the only female, which seems scary to me. I hope eventually to have a little girl to crochet dresses for, but for now, my two boys seems just fine to me.

I'm doing a Ripple Blanket for the little one, using the Neat Ripple pattern by Lucy from Attic24. It's going to be blue and a dark pink. I know my fiance will object to using pink for a boy, but I'm planning for this blanket to be passed from this little one to any future little ones. Plus, I'm using the Red Heart my lovely friend Wendy gifted to me for my birthday from all the way in Australia.

I'm also starting a bag using Lucy's Crochet Bag pattern. She always comes up with such lovely and simple patterns. Hopefully I'll have pictures up soon of what I am doing.

I am very upset. I've been doing my best to work on a doily, but I got so frustrated I frogged it, and now I can't find my book I was working from. It was due by the end of May for a swap and since I've been feeling sick and I hurt my shoulder beginning of May (and it's still sorta stiff)......May was just not a good month.

Awhile

I havent posted in awhile. I've been working on a blanket for my mom's friend who had cancer. She had it removed thank goodness and I just have to finish the border on it. I'm also working on a very bright Round Ripple. I'm hoping to have a few more done this month too.

Wow, it's May tomorrow

Wow, I can't believe tomorrow is May. It seems like my birthday and Easter were only a few days ago. In the SKY room, we all picked a few projects to work on during May and we have to PM them to Laura. Well I still dont have my list finalized and it's due tonight. I have DS's Spiralghan, Peter and Meghan's Wedding Granny Square Afghan, the Round Ripple I started, a few baby items to make, I need to start the Drumghan and I want to get going with Donna's birthday present, I won't say what it is here, although I'm dead positive she doesn't even know my blog exists.

Well here's a picture of the spiralghan so far:

That's my foot for comparison, I wear an 8 1/2 shoe (US size)


DS's rubber duckie wanted his picture taken with it. Actually, DS wanted to put him there.

The BBC believes most people have read only 6 of these 100 books. Copy, edit and paste into a


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
x 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee-
x 6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
x 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
x 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
x 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
x 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
x 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
x 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
x 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley-
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
x 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
x 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
x 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
x 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
x 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
x 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
x 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
x 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
x 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
x 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

So far I've read 32

Birthday

It's my birthday today, I'm officially 19 now. Went on an Easter egg hunt earlier with DS and my mom. He enjoyed it, even won a little stuffed giraffe for finding a camouflage egg. The whole thing tired him out.

Well I got home, and there was a package waiting for me. My lovely friend Wendy in Australia had sent me seven skeins of Red Heart, three pink and four blue! I'm so excited. I have to let it speak to me and tell me what it wants to be. I'm thinking a spiral-ghan, but who knows, it may want to be something else.