Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Joe's happy place
Its a small town of about 150 called Longville, Minnesota where my aunt and uncle have a small summer trailer on the lake. There is always the same people working in the same old places but the town gets plenty of new people every day that come for a relaxing day of fishing in their boat on the large glimmering and pike filled waters of the lake or even to go to the well known turtle races held every wednesday, and some people just pass through and hang around a little more to have a drink and check out the the sight and the other town dwellers. Longville to me is the best place i know of because its far away from the mass of the population around Minneapolis but yet there is never a boring day due to the action going on in town despite its small size and number of residents. Sometimes I spend the whole day out on the lake fishing, swimming, water skiing, and exchanging all kinds of verbal bs with my uncle when my cousin decides not to come with, ocassionally we even pack lunches to bring with when we're out catching fish so we don't have to go back to the trailer and possibly miss out on a large northern being caught. Other days will be spent walking around the town a little visiting the locals and their shops or meeting them and a lot of newer tourists at the turtle races and other shinanagans going on. As the day fades into night my family and I head back to the trailer for a usually grilled and always delicious dinner, afterwards we sit out in front around a fire with either neighboors or even more relatives while chatting and relaxing. It's my favorite parts about going up there in the summer because I enjoy watching my uncle annoy everyone as he drinks more and more and he starts to think he is as young as the rest of the nearby children, and after watching all the old and senile people I like looking at the night sky loaded with thousands of distant stars and watch the light blue northern lights wander across the open sky
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Sign me up! Joe, great use of descriptive language. You've painted a clear picture of the town and the experience.
If possible, I would like you to be more aware of punctuation and recognizing your paragraph breaks. When you switch subjects, generally you can start a new paragraph.
That said, you nailed this one right on the head. I go on a least two fishing trips each year for no less than two days. Sounds like I might need to schedule another one, although you can keep the pike, I'll take the monster northern and any perch for a fish fry.
Senior Griffin
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