My two favorite places

I am a very active person who does not sit still long.  I have two favorite places to be and they are my lake house and my farm.  About 50 years ago, my grandmother (my dad's mom) bought a piece of property at Lake Wateree.  They later built a house on it and it has been there ever since.  This is my favorite place to be in the summer time.  The Sheorn family also has a house at Lake Wateree two doors down from us.  Marshall Sheorn and I have a great time together every summer.  We love to fish, bowfish, and do all the water sports.  We also think of other ways to have fun like jumping off of boat houses into the water, racing lawn mowers, making  massive swings, and making huge slip'n slides.  I enjoy all of these activities equally so I don't have a favorite.  The second place I love to be is at my farm in Reevesville, South Carolina.  Here, I have a friend, Tyler Walters, that enjoys doing many of the same activities as me.  We love hunting doves, ducks, deer, and turkey the most.  We also enjoy riding four wheelers and muddin'.  There are many more fun things we do but they are not appropriate to mention here.  My dad and I plant our dove field, duck pond, and many food plots for wildlife.  This part is hard work that I do not always enjoy very much.  I am very lucky to have these two places and I hope to always have them.

Fractured back?

On Thursday, October 6th, 2011, our Hammond junior varsity football team played at Laurence Manning Academy.  This team was very big, strong, and fast.  Our defense could not seem to stop their runningback because he was so strong and fast.  We were told by our coach that they were going to be like this but we did not know that they were that good.  Our JV football record was five wins and one loss so we didn't expect a running back that was so fast.  Hammond's offense was also playing poorly so the combonation of all this allowed our team to start getting many injuries.  Nick, Cantey, Patrick and I all got hurt.  Nick fractured a couple ribs, Patrick almost broke his hand, and Cantey dislocated his shoulder.  In the fouth quarter, Laurence Manning ran the ball up the "a" gap and I went to make the tackle.  We hit each other very hard and fell to the ground.  I was almost knocked out when a player from Laurence Manning picked me up and asked if I was okay.  At this time, I was just in a daze and mumbled "yes" and walked away. I decided to stay in the game and my chest and upper back began to hurt more and more.  Eventually, my chest pains went away but the back pains didn't.  It continued to hurt, so I went to the doctor and he told me it was probably a pulled muscle and he gave me some muscle relaxer.  This medicine did'nt help and the pains are still here.  The doctor also told me that if it wasn't better by Monday, (today) then it could be something else such as a fracture. The sharp pains are still continuing so I will probably need to get it x-rayed.  This was a very rough game.