Greetings to Carolina in Brazil

[bill & gaby marshall]

Hello Carolina,

 

    I really miss you, and I wish you could have stayed.  How is school in Brazil?  Do you know anybody there?  How is your family?  I’ll tell you a story.  On the day after school ended, May 20, my family and I were doing our, such as to call it, spring cleaning.  When my sister and I were done with our jobs we were playing shoe-kick on the swing in our backyard.  I accidentally kicked my right shoe too high and it landed at the top of a tall birch tree!  I tried everything to get it down: climbing the tree, swinging a low branch, throwing basketballs and soccer balls in the air, but still I couldn’t get it down.  I did something dumb and funny.  I went inside my house, picked up some packaging tape, paper, and a marker, went to a table and wrote this: HERE HANGS NATHAN’S RIGHT SHOE, GOD BLESS A GOOD SHOE, MAY HE REST IN PEACE.  I taped the sign up on the tree and laid the other shoe at the bottom of the tree.  Then I took a garden stake with streamers on it and pounded it into the ground.  It was like a little funeral.  When we came back from dinner that night the shoe that was in the tree was laying on the ground!  The wind blew it down!  Alleluia!

 

    Well, I better get going.

 

                    I miss you lots,

                        Nathan Marshall

 

    P.S. Tell your mom that I DO NOT like cranberry juice!