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.

Last Weekend

I had a great time at my farm last weekend.  Although I didnt get to go to the Hammond football game, I still had a wonderful weekend.  I went to my farm in Reevesville, South Carolina on Friday night to help my dad prepare for our dove hunt the next day.  My family, consisting of my mom, dad, and my sister were all there. Also, two other friends came. They were Marshall Sheorn and Jake Nidiffer. Once we finished getting ready and everyone arived, we went to the feild and started to shoot.  The hunt started off alright but not what we expected but it got better as time went on.  As the birds began to fly better, we all killed our limits.  After we killed our limits, we went back and cleaned all of the birds we killed.  Then, we rode four wheelers all around our property and went muddin'. Next, the South Carolina vs. Vandy football game came on tv, so we all watched that.  After South Carolina's great victory, we rode four wheelers some more.  As we were riding, we came across a four foot rat snake. Jake and I both do not like snakes so I got my four wheeler tire on the snake and we cut his head off with a hatchet.  The next day, we had just finished planting a food plot with wheat when Jake saw a rattle snake. He got his tire on the snake but this time, we had nothing to kill it with. We became very scared because the snake was rattling, which means that the snakes is about to bite. Then, we got the idea to kill it with a stick.  Fortuneately, this plan worked. After all of this excitement, we packed up and headed for home. I had a great action packed weekend.