Write a story one line at a time

[surfergirl]

There is some awesome Bass and Trout, also Salmon in those water lets go during the autumn or spring season have a couple of campfires and Chillax like the good old days. Hey Bud?

[rocket]

That sounds like an awesome idea, exclaimed Mark but shouldn't we.....

[surfergirl]

Wait to long. Say the District Convention is here next week. Then September spring will be here. Lets meet up for a few days 31st Aug.- 5th sept. We can get charged up before the new service year begins?

[Greenfield]

And so they went, and by that time Rick and Jane were settled in for a few months so they could show then all the best stuff to do in Wausaukee and vicinity.

[surfergirl]

The adventures included Hiking, white water rapid rafting, & of cause fly fishing. Rick & Jane decided to get a 2 man tent & some camping equipment. But then thought would they be safe from the grizzly bears?

[Greenfield]

Or at least that's what Adam and Mark thought; Rick took the apostle Paul's counsel on adaptability very literally, and to the country people he became a country person, for now he was an experienced bear hunter, and so had nothing to fear from any grizzly.

[rocket]

That night their courage and fortitude was put to the test, for a grizzly pawed at the tent and shreaded one side of it to pieces - Rick had forgot to put the cooler in the car.

[surfergirl]

That Spelt trouble the bears can smell meat, The bear was determine, Rick & his companion were scared to death as one could imagine, So how were they going to get out of this situation?

[rocket]

Upon hearing the clawing on the tent, Rick jumped out of the sleeping bag and ran as fast as he could out of the tent, oops, "I forgot Jane" as he turned around, ran back and grabbed her hand as she was just exiting the tent.

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A similar thing happened us:

We were camping in Mt. Rainier National Park in WA in the week before a DC. My wife was pregnant with our first child so that would make it 1976. She had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. We were warned about bears and to be careful. On the way back to our tent a bear snorted just feet from where we were walking. I jolted and started to run and then remembered I had a wife to look out for. I turned to get her, she had daggers in her eyes but I just grabbed her hand and hurried off. We learned later that another camper had left his cooler out on the picnic table on purpose so as to get closeup pictures of a bear.

[surfergirl]

What an ordeal Lynn. Ya that would be freaky..Our most dangerous critter. might be a snake, goanna, kangaroo, I have only seen bears at a zoo, your poor wife.& you...Man we should change this subject to your worst camping experiences..LOL.. we have learnt to put food in the car or hide it . Possums come eat, one night we were camping and we were asleep and we could hear russelling rubbish bags my hubby went out and confronted a big tall male kanagroo. He was aggressive, all hubby could do was use a broom. Our friends were accross from us and could see all the action,Its funny now.. Do you still go camping?

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They jumped in the car and drove of it was there only change for a great gettaway..Didn't matter they left their tent behind, Rather be alive said Jane?

[Greenfield]

But then Jane realized that in the fervor they had abandoned Adam and Mark back at the campsite, and Rick was the bear hunter.

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Lynn, thanks for resurrecting the story!

[rocket]

Rick left Jane in the car as he tip-toed over to Adam and Mark's tent, the bear snorted, Rick jumped out of his skin but Adam and Mark just snored away not even waken as yet by all the ruckus.

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Yes we still camp within the comforts of a 32 ft. motor-home. Spoiled in our old age. We camped at KOA campgrounds on our Montana Vacation, nice swimming pools to beat back the heat. Not exactly roughing it but we enjoy it anyway. On this trip we had a doe and two fawn deer within 100 ft. of our camp and we saw a pack of wolves devouring a carcass in Jackson Hole valley near Teton National Park as well a cow moose and her two mooselings. No bear sightings this time in Yellowstone National Park. We traveled some 2,500 miles in 10 days and thought about going on to Wisconsin but then I didn't know if Rick would answer his door bell so we decided against it.

[Greenfield]

Then the bear recognized Rick the bear hunter and ran away as fast as it could.

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Like I said, this story has no resemblance to real life.

[trottigy]

But the bear couldn't run fast enough - Rick shot it and a few hours later - well lets just say some tastey eating was going on - but as Jane was wiping her mouth with her sleeve - she said,

[rocket]

"That was the greasiest, stringiest meat I have ever tried to eat," Oh, Jane says Rick: "Bear is like that, didn't you know?"

[surfergirl]

Rick was a fussy guy. Like his meat a certain way. He missed the Vegas burger all you can eat. Heart attack grill. He said wish we could go there again....

[trottigy]

Jane replied - fussy boy hamburgers are from grills (and they all laughed as it sounded like a popular TV commercial in the states about Trix being for kids) - But they really did enjoy the outdoors, until ...

[surfergirl]

The episode with the Bear and remembering their first country preaching trip. Getting lost and having Old brother John needing to find the loo, They decided to camp in Caravan parks for a while,,

[rocket]

It was time to get their focus back on the ministry as they headed back to the city.

[surfergirl]

Time to set new goals for the new service year.September is almost here so they put in action...

[Greenfield]

Rick's goal was to help Joshua, one of his Bible studies, to...

[rocket]

progress toward the ultimate goal of baptism with the aid of WOL, for as you see Joshua is from Africa and he can only speak and read Swahili.

[surfergirl]

Rick showed his study the example or the Ethopian Eunich. & so Joshua came to realise that even though the convention had passed in another 2 months there would be another opportunity to get baptized. Yes?

[Greenfield]

He also got Joshua in touch with the nearest Swahili group, in Iowa City, IA, and continued to help him despite his limited English.

[surfergirl]

He thought maybe Swahili was a mixture of French & Dutch. So he decided to learn the language. So that he could help out Joshua & in turn they were helping each other break the communication barrier.