"Every Country Girl's Summer Night's Dream"

 Comp I-Final Draft 6 September 2009 Every Country Girls’ Summer Night’s Dream I recall starry sky nights and a shining moon appearing like a full block of cheese. I remember having Kayla and Emily over. We ran around like monkeys in the countryside on our farm full of thousands of living, hiding creatures. Indentations waved in and out as I looked into the binoculars. Staying up until 1:00 in the morning, the man on the moon appeared. Stars sparkled in and out beside the expansion of black holes that sucked in all they could. The Milky Way galaxy shined bright as ever. The man on the moon eventually waned into a disappearing phantom as the time passed. Instantly our favorite place at the time was our old country farm that felt like it was in the middle of the wilderness full of echoes of the vivacity of wildlife. First, we had a barbecue outside. The early evening had the annoying accent of mosquito bites and controversial conversation. We had potato salad and ribs with sweet, mouth-watering barbecue sauce. The potato salad was full of miracle whip, pickles, eggs and burned with warmth as our mouth salivated. We learned quickly that the wait was worth the taste of our finally cooked food. Especially, most of all, it was our favorite place to be. It was in the country on the farm. Second, we sat around the bonfire in the pitch dark night. We talked and laughed most of all at each others jokes. We sat relating for oodles of time. We roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. The marshmallows burned and caught fire melting to make s’mores with Hershey’s chocolate in the midst of a frog-croaking, cricket singing night. Also, we roasted hot dogs. The hot dogs simmered and cooked with burn spots on them as the bonfire crackled and popped. We had a midnight snack. We were in a quiet forest lit by only the fading moon, stars and a big bonfire full of popping cedar wood. The fire constantly burned the warmth back into our bones. Then, we got into the truck during the night. In the midst of wide open spaces, we were in the country. Also we were listening to Country music. Taylor Swift started singing on the radio. The song about her “black dress” and Tim McGraw and her dancing on a starry night came on. The truck rumbled and squeaked as we approached the mud. We spun through throwing mud up into the air. Kayla, Emily and I yelled throughout the woods and out the window as our truck started getting stuck. Our destination was to the gate by our pond that croaked with frogs next to the spacious field that opened from a cozy corner. We were scared that coyotes or other wild animals might attack us. For instance, we grabbed the flashlight and dared each other to run to the deer stand. With open skies, we screamed loud as we could, climbing up the ladder. I remember how brilliantly lit it was in the middle of the field and how full of eerie sounds it quivered from hidden animals and creatures. We howled out the window and used a flashlight to look throughout the field. We were in awe at how beautiful the night was. We tried the deer, turkey and coyote calls, howled some more and talked. It was a nice time to have people over. It wasn’t long and we rushed back to the truck and yelled as we almost became stuck again. We started back up the hill passing croaking frogs again, hearing the muffler of the truck rattling. The diesel truck boosted up the hill. We tried turning and easily got stuck in the sour smell of cow manure and the sweet smell of hay in the muddy clay of clammed earth that caused the truck to move sideways again. By the end of the night our hearts were open from exploration in fascination of the country farm. We had glittering eyes, sparkling because of all of the excitement. Our evening came to a wonderful close. We broke away having wonderful dreams. We broke off from each other soon to go to bed full of wondering dreams. The starry skies and the rolling clouds and moon came to a close. No thunder or lightning dared to part the peaceful summer evening that soon reached a dreamy bedtime. Each went to their own home to go to sleep.