Family Folklore by: Brittney Golder

One day, my family went to my grandparent’s house to help out in the yard. The yard was as big as zoo! They wanted us to move this wood pile that was as big as six elephants put together. They also wanted to have us plant their garden that was as big as a crowd on the 4th of July. My grandparents also wanted us to mow their gigantic lawn!

We first got started on the wood pile that was as big as six elephants put together. My grandma wanted us to move this big wood pile into the back yard. So, that meant we had to move this wood across this big zoo. But, we eventually got it all moved into the back yard and had it looking good.

We then got started on the garden that was as big as a crowd on the 4th of July. We first had to till the garden to get the dirt soft so we could plant the seeds. Now tilling the garden took a really long time, but soon enough we had it complete and it was time to plant the seeds. My grandma wanted us to plant tomato, pumpkin, and corn seeds. There was so many rows of seeds we had to plant it seemed like we would never finish, but we got it finished.

We finally got to mowing the lawn that was as big as a zoo. Thankfully, my grandpa had a mower you could sit on and so you wouldn’t have to work as hard to get the lawn mowed. It took us forever to mow the zoo, but we finished.

Once we finished everything we were so hungry we could have all eaten ten elephants. Everyone decided that we would have a barbeque! It seemed like it took forever to cook the food. Finally the food finished cooking and we got to eat.

We then visited for awhile after we ate our food. My grandma then said, why don’t we have a fire in the fire pit outside. Of course everybody wanted a fire. I volunteered to get the fire started.

Once the fire was going it was as big as a giraffe! We had marsh mellows to cook and chocolate to put on graham crackers with the marsh mellows. We also made banana boats. It was so much fun after all the hard work we just did.

We stayed up for hours telling scary stories and some were happy ones too. My grandpa told us a story about Sasquatch and big foot. We were all so scared!!! Unfortunately I had a feeling I wasn’t going to be able to sleep that night. My grandma told us a story that seemed to relate to our family, it was a good story for her just to make up.

It got really late and so my mom said we should go home so we weren’t too tired tomorrow! We cleaned up our campfire mess and said our goodbyes.