Memior

By

Nick Daugherty

Tubing

           

It was a beautiful summer evening and the water was clear as glass.  My two older brothers, a friend and I were out on the water tubing.  We were tubing for a while and then it was my turn. My brother Tyler stayed on the other tube.  We use two separate tubes and one person per tube.  It makes it a lot funnier and more room to do different things. 

     This summer will be the third summer with the new boat.  Well, I still call it new because our last one was really old and smaller.  The new boat has a 265-horse engine and is 20 feet long.  The old one only had a 135-horse engine and was a lot shorter.  We have a lot of fun with the new boat and maybe we have too much fun.  A lot of people have gotten hurt including me.

     So on that nice summer day it was Tyler and I on the tubes.  We had been going for a while.  If you understand tubing with the Daugherty’s at all.  You might want to say a prayer before you get on the tube. It is crazy out there.  You never know what the driver is going to do and you have to be ready at all times.

     So to get to my story. We had been riding tubes for a while when my brother made a perfect wave.  Jordon made Tyler and I go over the wave perfectly.  Tyler went up and flip over and starting to come down. When I hit the wave I slid underneath in the air.  He came down with his back facing down and we landed back-to-back, head-to-head. 

     We fell off the tubes right away and we both reached for our heads.  When we were in the water my brother on saying that his head hurt and I swam over to him and tried to calm him down. I kept telling him “I was right there” and “I got you.”  My brother got most of the force to his head.  I had some pain but not as bad as Tyler.  When the boat got back to us I got into it right away and helped pull my brother into the boat.  He said his head hurt very badly` and he couldn’t remember what happened after he landed on me.

     We think we got slight concussions but we never went into the doctor to make sure. This didn’t stop us from tubing.  We didn’t go tubing the day after that because we still had slight headaches.  We went the next weekend though. 

     I am still a little scared but it doesn’t stop me from going tubing again.

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Memior

By

Nick Daugherty

Tubing

           

It was a beautiful summer evening and the water was clear as glass.  My two older brothers, a friend and I were out on the water tubing.  We were tubing for a while and then it was my turn. My brother Tyler stayed on the other tube.  We use two separate tubes and one person per tube.  It makes it a lot funnier and more room to do different things. 

     This summer will be the third summer with the new boat.  Well, I still call it new because our last one was really old and smaller.  The new boat has a 265-horse engine and is 20 feet long.  The old one only had a 135-horse engine and was a lot shorter.  We have a lot of fun with the new boat and maybe we have too much fun.  A lot of people have gotten hurt including me.

     So on that nice summer day it was Tyler and I on the tubes.  We had been going for a while.  If you understand tubing with the Daugherty’s at all.  You might want to say a prayer before you get on the tube. It is crazy out there.  You never know what the driver is going to do and you have to be ready at all times.

     So to get to my story. We had been riding tubes for a while when my brother made a perfect wave.  Jordon made Tyler and I go over the wave perfectly.  Tyler went up and flip over and starting to come down. When I hit the wave I slid underneath in the air.  He came down with his back facing down and we landed back-to-back, head-to-head. 

     We fell off the tubes right away and we both reached for our heads.  When we were in the water my brother on saying that his head hurt and I swam over to him and tried to calm him down. I kept telling him “I was right there” and “I got you.”  My brother got most of the force to his head.  I had some pain but not as bad as Tyler.  When the boat got back to us I got into it right away and helped pull my brother into the boat.  He said his head hurt very badly` and he couldn’t remember what happened after he landed on me.

     We think we got slight concussions but we never went into the doctor to make sure. This didn’t stop us from tubing.  We didn’t go tubing the day after that because we still had slight headaches.  We went the next weekend though. 

     I am still a little scared but it doesn’t stop me from going tubing again.

 

Any Topic Essay

By

Nick Daugherty

           

Rock Picking

As the years have progressed my dad has gotten more gators and people to pick the rocks.  It kind of just started out with my brothers and I on the loader.  Finally, we got old enough to drive by ourselves and my dad sent us out with a tractor and wagon.  Gators came along shortly after and we hired a classmate or two to fill the empty seats.  Now we go out with three gators and we have Tyler Wieberdink and two other people come and help.

            Although some people and most kids think that rock picking is the worst job in the world, I don’t think it’s the worst but it isn’t the best.  Bending over and picking up rocks all day gets boring but it has to be done.           

However, to get rid of the boredom we think of things to do.  Like one time we found a cover to a pail and we played tag with it from gator to gator.  You had to throw it and hit the other gator for them to be it.  I don’t think we pick up a whole lot of rocks during that game but it was fun.  Another time we collected corncobs that still had corn on them and when we finally had enough we started a little war with them.  It was pretty intense one guy had his hat taken off by one of the corncobs thrown at him.   If there aren’t any corncobs in a field we will just use dirt clods. Those hurt a little bit more than the corncobs. 

            However, the past couple years we have been wrecking the transmissions in the gators by trying to go up steep hills.  We took the transmission out of one of them already and had to get it replaced.  We race with the gators too that sometimes turns out good and sometimes not.  Let’s just say Tyler and I are fortunate that we didn’t get hurt one time.  We started racing on the road against my brothers.  I had a great plan for hitting a short cut.  On the intersection we had to make a right turn, there was a grass area and we took the ditch.  When going back up on the road I couldn’t decide whether to take the approach or the ditch, so I took both.  We hit both the ditch and approach at about 20MPH.  Tyler flew out of his seat into the air about two feet and I almost fell out and got ran over.  Our buckets and lunch boxes went flying everywhere on the gravel road. It took us about five to ten minutes to find all the stuff back, including the shovel that got thrown to the other ditch on the other side of the road.  We met up with my brothers after we found all of my stuff back. 

            We make rock-picking fun even though it is tedious work.  We even hooked up radios so we don’t get so bored any more.