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It’s the end of July and school is getting closer and closer. My dad and I are camping at a campground in Michigan. We are camping with my cousins and their dad’s. It’s the father son campout and everyone is arriving. My Uncle Pat parks his trailer and sets it up. The rest of us set up our tents. Once we are all day we set up a canopy where we would eat food. Next, we all unpack our gear and put it in our tents. It’s later in the day and my cousins and I really want to go fishing. We all get our stuff and head to the lake. We get to the dock and we get out the worms while my older cousins fish with artificial baits. I start fishing and I catch a tiny Largemouth Bass. My older cousins decide to go to the channel so we all go with them. We get to the channel and my cousins start throwing their baits in the water. It’s really hard to fish in a channel with worms and i’m curious about the fake baits. I ask my cousin if I can use one of their baits. My cousin Seth gives me a Pink Zoom Super Fluke and tells me how to use. He says …show more content…
My cousin Seth grabs a plastic shopping bag and walks out into the dark. He comes running back and he says “Guys I caught a Snipe.” A Snipe is a bird that wades in water and catches little fish with its beak. I want him to show me the snipe so I ask him to open the bag. He opens it and pull out his hand and there is nothing in the bag. I realized he had pranked us. The thing moving in the bag was just his hand. Next, we all went down to the shore of the lake to catch minnows. We caught a couple of Pike Minnows which are big and move very slow. Then we hiked backed to our campground. I remember being interested in the lantern at our campsite. For some reason I really wanted to touch it so I did. I would really regret this decision however because the lantern was actually a bug zapper lantern. I got a burn on my finger and I had to see my Uncle’s friend who is a
The goal in those days was to catch a double. (God! don't times change - now you're nobody until you've had a 40!) I was being pestered by bream that night, and had already landed two of quite reasonable size. What with that, the full moon, and the wind rattling the trees and bushes, I was having great difficulty in getting any sleep - which was crucial as I had to go to work the next day. It was one of those spooky nights, and each time I closed my eyes I was forced to open them again to investigate a sound which just may have been something nasty! But virtually on the stroke of midnight the wind suddenly dropped, and all the clouds cleared away from the moon. The lake went flat calm, and it was obvious something was about to happen. I sat up on the bedchair a little frightened. Out in the lake a carp rolled over the bait. It was so light I could tell it was a common, and it looked quite big. The whole scene was so weird and dreamlike I really did pinch myself to see if I was awake. I was, and became even more so when I heard the slight click of the contacts coming together on the bite alarm, followed by the weary buzzing of the bell - a noise both horrible and exciting. I struck with little enthusiasm, expecting another bream. It soon became apparent that this was not a bream, and after a long and thrilling fight on my old cane Sealey octofloat I was opening the folds of the
I cannot begin to tell you just how excited we all are. I put in my request for the days off I need and am ready to start Packing!!! Not that I've never gone camping, because I practically lived in a tent for about three summers, but I have never gone camping as a mom before! Things are so very different in this stage of my life then they were before. Now I am aware that I am going to need diapers for my son, and clothes but the specifics were harder to plan for them then they are normally for just me. For me, my daughter who is four and potty trained, seems to be the lesser of the two evils so I decided to start with her. Knowing the way the weather tends to change along the great lakes I know she is going to need a full suit case! I grabbed two pair of comfy jeans, and three pair of shorts to start, a couple of tank tops, short sleeves and two sweaters! I grabbed a light sweater to keep the sun off her shoulders and a heavy one for the evenings around the fire pit! (Roasting Marshmallows is not as fun when you're cold! We are also planning on taking a trip to the lake, so I know she is going to need her suit and a towel and tennis shoes and sandals. With the main events up there including a once a year Flee Market and carnival (yes, in the middle of the woods!) I know she is going to desperately need lots of sun block, and bug spray. A Hair brush, tooth brush and lots of socks and undies, and some pull up's for bedtime and we're ready to hit the road. My little guy is a couple years younger than her and needs much more. The clothes will be packed the same way with the addition of diapers and wipes. He gets the biggest bag in the house even thought his clothes are the smallest! He gets two pair of shoes like Sissy, extra socks (on account of he likes to take them off and hide them!), little swimmers for the lake and his trunks. I pack up the sippy cups, and a few of his favorite toys. Since we
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Growing up school came first, I grew up about two miles from IUS and went to elementary school at Mt. Tabor. I played baseball in the fields behind where I had recess, and ran around the fields and school for cross country practice. When I got home after little league practice or cross country practice, I had to sit down and do my homework before I could watch television or go back outside. School wasn't important to me though, I didn't put any effort into school and didn't enjoy school.
It was our fifth day in the Philmont Scout Reservation in New Mexico, the halfway point of the trek. I as the Crew Leader was responsible for the other 11 members of the crew, including 4 adults. I was in charge, and amazingly the adults rarely tried to take over, although they would strongly advise me what to do in some situations. Phil, with the exception of me, the oldest scout and the Chaplain for the trip, was my second. Together we dealt with problems of making sure everyone carried the right amount of stuff in their pack to who had to cook and cleanup each day. The trip had gone well so far, no injuries, and the worst problem had been a faulty backpack. As I walked I thought about the upcoming campsite. Supposedly this one had running water from a solar powered pump—so had the last night’s site but the tank was too low to use for anything but cooking because the of how cloudy it had been of late. But today was bright and shinny, and hot, so I didn’t think there would be a problem.
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“Kyle, I have a surprise for you at home! It’s your very early birthday present.” She sure did excite me because I ran home, and there it was on a table in my room - A fishtank! It was a pretty large tank, about 2 ½ feet wide, but it was empty. “Let’s go to the pet store to pick out some fish, Kyle” My mom sure did make that day great. The pet store was called ‘Critters’, in Rio Rancho, and it was one of my favorite places to go and just look at the different animals they had from time to time. This time, however, I was actually able to buy some! This was my first pet, so you can probably imagine my excitement. We decided to get some tropical fish that could survive in salt water, because I thought they looked “cooler and more exotic!”. Looking back, I didn’t realize how difficult it was to keep saltwater fish alive and healthy for a long time, but I still enjoyed the year that I did have them, my first
We joked around, sung, and rapped to keep each other up, and it was an effective way of keeping everyone happy. When everyone is happy and getting along we walked at our fastest speed and made great time getting to our campsites, and with that we could choose a place to set up tents, tarps, and start food early so we wouldn't have to do that much stuff in the dark. With the food, we had a meal 3 times each day except for the first day where we only had one meal, which was dinner. On the second day an instructor tried to help us cook and got our biggest pot burnt on the bottom which we were planning to use for our macaroni the next day, but instead we had to improvise and use a smaller pot and we made two separate servings.
“It all started one Friday morning”. My family and I were going dirt bike riding at Forest Hill to camp also and its like 3 and a half hours away. Early in the morning is the usual we all meet at my uncle house were I keep my dirt bike in his shed we all get together and eat breakfast it's usually pancakes and sweet bread with milk or orange juice after we have all ate we talk for another 10 to 15 minutes. We start loading the dirt bikes into the trailer one by one after we have load the dirt bikes we put all of our tents and supplies in the back of the truck with our drinks.
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It was just another average summer night. I was 13 years old, sitting at home with my father. We were watching TV when I heard my favorite sound. It was the sound of my father’s volunteer firefighter pager going off. Multiple engines were being dispatched to a house fire. I looked at him with excitement as he got up running and searching for his clothes. Just before he started to leave in house, he looked back at me and said, “Well? Are you coming?” In one fluid motion, I jumped up and ran out of the house with him. After arriving on scene, I was told to wait in his truck. Being the young curious boy I was, it took only 15-20 minutes of waiting in the truck before I could not hold my curiosity back any longer. As I walked toward the
My camp was the thing I looked forward to be at all the time when I was younger. I have most of my best childhood memories there. For example, the most memorable thing I did there was almost run a lawn mower into a creek. All my older companions would drive it around the land and I was envious so I decided I was going to ride it with permission or not. I did not know how to steer well, but thankfully I kept it going in a straight line and it headed towards a small drop off with a
Close to the summer, all the kids get a magazine full of camp things. They have until the due date to turn in the letter that was attached to the magazine. In the letter, they must have information about them and their parents, also what part of camp they're attending to. The pastor daughter and my friend Kelly said that she and I should go camping together. I thought so too but my mom, on the other hand, did not. That was until Mama Ann and my sister Alexis talk some sense into her about me
When I open my eyes and see the bottom of the top bunk I think to myself, "day one of week five." At 7:00, the alarm goes off and I heard the grumbling of eight junior high girls as they start to slowly climb out of their beds half awake. "Rise and shine and give God the glory glory." As my typical morning song continues, I get eight sets of glares from my campers. For some reason it just makes me smile. "I wish I had my blow dryer." "I really want my make up." The usual teenage comment I hear the first day. "Five minutes to finish getting ready before Alpha!" I yell, "I'll meet everyone out side of the cabin!" I found my way outside Mt. Horeb cabin sitting on the picnic table just smiling to myself for no particular reason.