The Adventures of a Swiss Porcupine, Part I
It all started at 7:00 on the 1st Saturday morning of September, when Grace woke to the sound of her elder sister’s cell phone ringing, on the top bunk of their bunk bed. The elder sister, Dee, answered the ‘phone.
“Yeah?” Dee said, half asleep
“Rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory,
Rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory!
Rise and Shine, and give God the glory, glory
Children of the Lord!” Grace heard, singing from the ‘phone.
After that, it was too hard to hear what the other person was saying, while Dee would say every once in a while, “OK”. After Dee’s final “OK”, she handed the ‘phone down to Grace. Grace said, “Yeah?” and heard the song all over again, being sung by her dad.
Then, after the song was finished, the dad said, “We are going shooting, so get up and get ready!”
“OK!” Grace replied
“Bye”
“Bye”
Grace closed the cell phone and handed it back up to Dee, then looked over at her little sister, Kathryn, who had slept with her that night. Kathryn was wide awake, so Grace rolled out of bed, and went in search of warm enough clothes to wear. Finally, she found a black ruffled skirt, and a purple button-up shirt, with sleeves, because it was rather cold.
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Then, Grace went out and ate a Sweet & Salty Peanut bar. After that, and searching the cupboards and refrigerator for a non-leftover solid food, she left in dispair, and made Kathryn a peanut butter sandwich, which wasn’t eaten until much later.
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Eventually, she went and got her rifle from her room, and brushed her and Kathryn’s hair. Then came an especially hard challenge… finding socks, that magically disappear in the drier! After that ordeal, thankful that she didn’t have to resort to the dirty laundry pile to find socks, she went to get Kathryn’s shoes from the ever messy entry way closet.
And whaddya know, she couldn’t find the left shoe! Rats! So, she went and called her sisters, Sabrina, Sue, and Naomi, to go look in their and Kathryn’s room for Kathryn’s shoe. After hours of searching, they still couldn’t come up with it, and so Kathryn had to wear her snow boots, which was just as well, because it had rained all the night before, and was still raining.
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So, roughly about 9:00 AM, they got out the door, and into the 15 passenger van. The four oldest brothers, Edward, Levi, Glenn, and Daniel, were going to go in the one of Edward’s pickups that didn’t have it’s engine parted out, so they could go to the gun show, which was being held at the Day Inn.
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In the van, the dad was giving the roll call.
“Dee?”
“Yeah.”
“Grace?”
“Here.”
“Sabrina?”
“Here.”
“Sue?”
“Yeah?”
And stopped there.. he doesn’t have to call out for Naomi, Andrew, Tyler, Kathryn, or Jane, because they all make plenty of noise, so you would notice if they weren’t there!
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The road to the Gun and Fun Club was rather uneventful, besides the fact that Grace noticed Kathryn was wearing dirty pants on backwards.
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As the family drove down to the rifle range, they were chatting about how all the people who lived close to the club complain about the noise.
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Once at the rifle range, Edward, Levi, Glenn, and Daniel unloaded the van full of rifles and ammo and such. The men then went and put up the targets while the girls chatted.
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After the men had come back up to the shooting line, Grace and Dee started shooting their respective rifles. After four shots for each, they handed the guns off to Sabrina and Sue. Sabrina started shooting almost right away, but Sue was scared of the recoil. Edward, Sue’s ‘handyman’, was telling her that she would think that the recoil was just nothing, after all that complaining and building up.. so, after Grace and Sabrina had taken 2 turns each on Grace’s rifle, Sue finally shot. And, just as Edward had been telling her, she thought the recoil wasn’t so bad after all!
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At 12:00 PM, the family was done shooting. Edward, Levi, Glenn, and Daniel headed off to the gun show, and the rest of the family loaded up into the van and went to McDee’s and each of them had a hamburger and apple pie, with three pops to share between them.
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After McDee’s, they went to Shippies, which only the mom and the dad went in, while the kids in the van almost died of the heat, because the day had been previously cool, but then by this time it had warmed up quite a bit, and the heater was left on.
Finally, after several hours, the mom and the dad had come back, and they went to Higher Ground to the Stevski’s house, then to the $ Store to get presents for Andrew’s upcoming birthday.
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After the $ Store, they left for Wallies World. Andrew, Dee, and the mom went inside, while the rest almost died from thirst. After several hours there, Andrew, Dee and the mom finally came out. Everybody was quite tired from being out all day by now. It was 5:30 by the time they got home. Everybody was exhausted. Levi, Dee, Sue, Sabrina, and Grace all headed for the computers. Grace checked her W00t! Mail, Head Story, and Peep. All of a sudden, she had The Wonderful Idea! To write the story, The Adventures of a Swiss Porcupine. So, after she had written it, she gave all the blame to being horribly tired after a long day.
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Part II of The Adventures of a Swiss Porcupine coming up later!
