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While I was sitting in my treehouse in my underwear dreaming about a trip to Lake Placid. Imagine my surprise when I started hearing the smack of palms on leather. Looking out amongst the branches, I saw a tether ball game going on. I guess I should bring my clothes with me next time I'm going to be sitting in my treehouse!
(And someone really should have asked me before putting up a tether ball pole on my property!!!)
Upon finishing the delectable snack, I grabbed his talon and we flew down to the soft ground below. down the path we wondered until we happened upon a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear. What are you doing, son? My name is Johnny and I am heading to the lake for a swim.
Wow. That sounds like a fantastic idea. Can we join you? Sure lots of us are going, racoon, the deer, Froggy, and Skunk. We followed Johnny down the path for a ways- then found the lake, Lake Placid, of course. Because it was so quaint and filled me with peace. Everyone jumped in and splashed around for hours.
Well, it was getting dark, and we decided to head home. The trip back to the tree house was a short one, but we were delayed by a little adventure.
Everything was normal until I tripped over a rock on the path. What can I say my feet were wet.. I scurried to my feet and Surprise! - found that I had tripped over a beautiful green turtle. I asked him where he was going at this hour. "Didn't you hear that the whole gang is playing tether ball over in Verde Valley?" No, we did not hear that- owl and I are on our way to the house. Perhaps another day, turtle.
Owl bid me adieu upon reaching the tree house. I wondered back over to my cabin in the woods. Who could have expected such a perfect day? A day in the woods that turned into new friends and fun.
Hope that you enjoyed the story. Good night.
The decaying deck shifted under my feet as I stepped out upon it and I grabbed for the railing only to have it crumble in my grasp. My surprise was complete as first one foot and then the other broke through the rotted deck and I plunged downward.
A protruding nail snagged in my underwear and held me suspended like a tetherball ten feet above the ground. Instinctively I lunged for a support crosspiece and managed to free myself, dropping catlike to the ground below.
I am safe, though shaken by the fall. I look around to see if anyone has observed my stupidity. Unseen, I hurry into the trees, my ego briused and a skid mark in my drawers.
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Good Morning Danny Boy!
Lounging in my naught but my underwear in a custom-designed treehouse near Lake Placid, I escaped into daydreams about my surprise comeback to win the middle school tetherball championship.