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of Our Success Stories The following articles are written by adult students of LVOC. Through the production of many articles, the students experienced the great amount of work involved in creative writing - the first draft, second draft, and third draft, cutting, pasting, sentence structure, spelling corrections, rewriting, rewriting, and those experiences associated with written expression. These articles are products of desires for personal improvement and a unique cooperation between adult students and their volunteer tutors. We at LVOC congratulate all contributors for their patience in dealing with the on-going critiques by their instructors, for their dedication and accomplishments in the areas of reading and writing. The following stories appeared in our October 2003 edition of "Adventures in Writing:" ........................................................................................................................................................................................ Wildlife
and Gardens On one late spring day I was coming home from work. Just two miles from home there were about ten turkeys in the road. When I came up on them they took off flying out of the way so I would not hit them and yes wild turkeys can fly. It was a pretty sight to see them fly through the air being as big as they are. Later that night I went by there where they were in the field eating corn for their dinner. And there were a few deer in there eating too. Well, I have my garden in now. I put a lot of sweet corn in because I like it and I put beans in. I also put in summer squash, peppers, tomatoes, swiss chard, peas, and watermelon in too. I put pumpkins in and zucchini in too. I finally got my field corn in after it stopped raining for two or three days so I could get on my field to work it and get ready to plant. .......................................................................................................................................................................................... My
Cat My cat follows me like a dog. She flips over and over and wants her belly rubbed. .......................................................................................................................................................................................... My
New Friend My neighbor Linda heard I was looking for a dog. Someone Linda knew had some puppies. Linda brought me one of the puppies. I said I will give it a try to see if we get along. After a couple of days we became buddies. His name is Benji, he is a poo pom (poodle, pomeranian). Benji is six months old and weighs 14 1/2 lbs., he is a cute little rascal, he is real friendly and playful. He likes to ride in my truck and is a good watch dog. Benji is always by my side. ........................................................................................................................................................................................... Biking Back in 1976 I bought my first motorcycle. It was a 1976 Honda 350 that I rode for about two months to get some riding experience, and my motorcycle license. Then I traded it in for a bigger one, a 1976 Honda 750 super sport which was much bigger and faster. At that time it seemed like all my friends were buying bikes. We would ride mostly on the weekends to places around the finger lakes or song mountain for the day. We would ride around four or five thousand miles a year. I owned this bike for four years and sold it because I was riding less and less each year. I went for twenty years without owning a motorcycle and in 1999 I bought a 1981 Kawasaki that had 12,000 miles on it and I rode it around 1000 miles a year. It was an old bike had some mechanical problems with it like the carburetors and ignition system. It was an old bike and I did not want to put up with the hassle of having constant trouble with it. This last spring I started looking for a newer bike but I really did not know what I wanted. I started looking at touring bikes and decided I wanted a Honda Gold Wing. The new ones were so expensive that it was not within my budget. I started looking at used ones and looked at quite a few of them and for some reason most of the bikes were well taken care of but they also had a lot of miles on them.
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