This summer I did lots of things, like go over to the sandbar to swim, go out hunting, and take boat rides with Nick Fitka Jr. and his brother Mikey. It was a lot of fun going over to the sandbar to swim because while we were there we checked who could dive the farthest and swim the longest. One time we camped out there, but it was no good because it was too cold at night and too hot during the day.

Once I went out bear hunting with my grandparents Frank and Angelina Coffee. When we were at Willow we saw a black bear. It was cool seeing one because we hadn't seen anything for almost the whole day. We shot at it, but it took off running into the trees. We tracked it after I found its blood. When we discovered it we shot it and dragged it out into the open where we skinned it. Then we brought it home and put the meat away.

It was cool to go on boat rides with Mikey and Nick because we saw a lot of stuff, like birds and a few big animals. We hardly saw any black bears, though, which meant we hardly shot our rifles. But I enjoyed riding in the boat anyway because I saw a lot of different places during a very pretty time of the year.