Canoe Trip
The Old Man on October 29th, 2007
My family decided to go canoing, it was a beautiful day. We rented the canoes, now it was time to load up. I asked one of my second cousins if he knew how to paddle a canoe he answered “oh yes sir no problem!” One of my sisters jumped in with him. The rest of us got in our canoes, and off we go! Well what happened next?
My second cousin was in the lead when all of a sudden he headed for the bank. My sister was hollering at him “turn the canoe!” of coarse he is sitting in the back. She was paddling hard trying to turn the canoe, he was paddling harder and faster. When he hit the bank we just thought he was just playing around, but when he almost knocked her out of the canoe going under a low limb hanging out over the river, she yelled at him “Just take me back to shore” ! We helped him get back (so much for the “oh yes sir”). We were back were right back where we started.
His father, mother, and sister got in the canoe. His wife got in the front, his daughter in the middle, and he sat in the back his wife who had never been in a canoe. I shoved them out from shore. As I walked away I was looking at my brother and he was pointing behind me. So I turned around and his wife was leaning over the side. My cousin hollered “don’t lean over the side!” it was to late the canoe turned over, and in the water they went. You should have seen their faces! Of coarse we were all laughing.
You know? After all that happened on that day, we all had a great time!
in a swing inside the porch being very still finely the squirrel came down the tree across the yard up three steps pausing once in a while at the top step. He looked around, walked in, and I pulled the string! The screen door slammed closed with a loud noise! That squirrel went wild, he was running all around inside that porch but when he came across that swing I was sitting on, and across my shoulders, then down my leg it was time to open the door! As scared as I was, I ran for the door. Fumbling with the door handle, and swinging it open
He knew how easy it was to leave it at home so I did what he said. We drove to town which is about sixteen miles. We go into the store and he said Wendell we need the list. No problem, I looked in my shirt pocket where I put it, he is standing there looking at me. Well it wasn’t in the shirt pocket that I put it in. “Wendell you know we have to have the list to get items we need”, standing there frantically I’m looking everywhere,
