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The winning band at Tygh valley

Actually it was a band scramble

My speech for speech club

Hello my name is Collin James Goldman.

I was born in Evans WA on July16th 1995. I weighed 8lbs7oz and was born at home. I loved to play chess and still do. My dad taught me how to play. A lot of times my dad would give me either his castles or his queen when we would start a game. That has all changed now. I beat him more than he beats me, in fact he says now that I should give him my queen. I like to read, play paintball, soccer and football. I am 4ft 11in and weigh 87lb. I play mandolin and travel with my family and play at bluegrass festival's. The last festival we went to Alex and I played with “Ida Viper” a famous band. Now comes the sad part when we were there, at the festival we played soccer with two guys from Poland and I am sorry to say they wiped us out. [oh well] Well now its time to talk about my ambitions. I want to go to Europe and see all the battle sites, travel around Scotland, go back east, to see all the civil war sites and Revolutionary war sites as well. I want to keep on doing music and marry a God fearing woman and do Mannatech. I want to live in a log home on 20 acres. I would like to thank God for all His wonderful blessings in my life. Thanks for listening to my speech. (and for you bloggers...thanks for reading)

Their Fathers Treasure

By Collin Goldman

Once upon a time a young farmer who lived in England inherited a small farm from his father. The young farmer was an industrious man and the farm grew. In time he had two sons whom he named Fergus and David. His sons however were not like their father they were somewhat lazy so he tried to teach them but without success. Soon he had something else to worry about. It had started in Asia and almost depopulated it and was spreading into Europe. It was the Black Plague and it spared neither station, age nor sex it seemed to have no remedy . Nevertheless he was determined that his family should not starve he worked the farm by himself. One day while working he noticed a small black spot on one of his legs. He froze, it was the sign of the dreaded Plague! He knew had only a few hours left until! He staggered back to his house and called ''Fergus, David come hear quickly'' his sons came rather slowly, Fergus grumbled ''why did you wake us up so early it's 8:00''then they saw there father and said ''what is wrong father ''they exclaimed he whispered ''I have the plague! Don't come to close''. His sons were cowering away from him when he exclaimed ''My sons there is a great treasure in the fields'' then his sons whooped with joy and forgot that there father had the disease.

Then his sons ran outside and started digging when they came back later that day they found there father dead. They morned for many days and then they got back to work searching for the treasure in the fields. After several weeks search they were frustrated to find no treasure and got ready for winter. Winter came and went and the spring rain's fell. And thanks to the boys careful plowing the farm it yielded ten times the amount it ever did. After a while the boys realized that the treasure there father spoke of was the fruit of there own labor.

The end

Don't cry Grandma

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The zoo

Mailee on an elephant
Go will! Oh wait is that quicksand?
Did you get it daddy?
William thinks he can reach the same wing span as an eagle.

There mine

I saw the sunset first. I took these in Medford before we left for our trip.