The horrible experience of Gettysburg, etc.

A lot has happened since the last time that the Horne Gazette has published a post. The Hornes were able to make a trip up to Pennsylvania to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa Horne. The boys caught a lot of fish. One day while we were there, Joe and Sam were on a rocky area of the creek (or the crick as they say up there) and were trying to catch some salamanders and crayfish. A salamander happened to wiggle under a rock that also gave shelter to a rather aggressive water snake. When Sam saw the snake, he went absolutely nuts. He started stomping all over it. Meanwhile, Joe was telling him to get it with a gun or something. Sam turned around and eyed his loaded gun. Finally he grabs it and starts pumping BBs into the snake's head. He killed it. On their Pennsylvania trip, the Hornes stopped at Gettysburg and went to a wax museum and different historic places. This atrocity happened on the way up to Pennsylvania and Joe was dying to just get to Grandma and Grandpa's house. When they finally made it there, it was not long before Joe and Sam were fishing in the creek. One night as Grandpa, Joe, and Sam were loaded up in the truck to go spotlighting on the hill, they spotted a family of skunks in front of the truck's headlights up on the hill. The mom went into the woods while the babies rolled around and played in the grass. Then the mom came back, and they all went off into the woods. On the way home, while passing through Virginia, (aka the eastern Kansas) Joe ended up writing on a piece of paper: Virginia Stinks! The sign, (held up to the window) captured the attention of more than one passerby. The Hornes made it home and have been going about their lives. One night, after a couple episodes of The Rifleman, Sam lunged for his brother and they soon ended up rolling around on the floor. Sam took Joe's head and slammed it down onto a dish that had some remaining cheese dip on it. The incident resulted in a whipping for Sam and a shower for Joe. Mom has been painting down in the stairwell that leads down to the basement. She is done now, and the stairwell looks very good. Dad was unable to attend most of the Family Camp due to his having to go to a meeting with his committee. They had a decently good camp. Sam and Joe were in different cabins this year with different counsellers. Joe's cabin had only four people in it including the cabin leader. Glenn Hendricks was the cabin leader for Joe's cabin. His nickname is "the bean" and a lot of church people call him "Bean" or "Brother Bean" Our cabin would sometimes call him "Papabean" He showed our cabin a couple of 9 millimeter pistols inside the Beanmobile. I received a blessing from our camp. Well, it's 9:17 and we need to leave at 5:15 tomorrow morning to go to the last one or two sessions of the Tennessee State Convention so I had better stop writing.