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  • I must have been about 10, so a good 13 years ago. It would have been one near my Grandparents' =)
  • Probably last August. In mid Vancouver Island.
  • I never swam in a river.
  • The last time I swam in a river was in the Potomac, near "Reagan" National Airport. (Kind of skanky, but not the worst.) I was jet skiing and water skiing...and spent some time swimming around in the water. That was about seven years ago. Most rivers are nauseating, though.
  • last summer when i flipped my jet ski and i had to swim to chase it in the housatonic river in connecticut
  • Not sure....has been a long time.
  • I was a bit of a Huck Finn when I was a kid, and swam in both the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers quite a bit. A friend of mine had some shoestring relatives that lived in a shack on the river bottoms, constructed of things found in and around the river. His mother would bring them goods while us kids swam. There was another spot we got to by bicycle, that had a large tree house, and a moss covered concrete slope that dumped spring and runoff water into the river. (water slide) These spots were secluded, so we swam in our tightie whities, which quickly became brown from the mud. That was a lot of years ago, but still remembered fondly.
  • When I was about 13, somewhere in Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • I never have;in a river
  • In Yosemite National Park I swam in the river. Many people had rubber inner tubes to float with.
  • Well the comment feature isn't working, so I'll put it in an answer. Here’s what I originally wrote. The Algonquin covered a pretty large area from the Northeast coast to the Great lakes. They were hunters and farmers, but mainly hunters and fishers. They hunted caribou, moose and otters etc. along with spear and net fishing from canoes. I guess on the coast they ate a lot of shell fish… had clam bakes and the like. They even made sugar from the sap of maple trees.     It sounds like they were pretty organized as a people, in that all the tribes would get together every six months for a meeting, in which they’d settle disputes, trade and generally reinforce their social structure.     I’ll be using some of their lore regarding spirits, and other mythical beings in my story; but I’ll have a sort of sci fi explanation for what they were experiencing, and now, what the good people of Seal’s Crossing are experiencing. I’m taking a little of what I learned in reading King's work, and Harper Lee for that matter, in that some of my central characters are children, and we get to see things through their eyes. I think that helps in tapping the reader’s imagination; opening the door to belief, like we’ve talked about.     I just checked my mail for Whitehair’s book; noth’n yet. I suppose I could go on Amazon and use the “Where’s My Stuff?” feature. I would be interested in hearing about your family’s WW II experiences. My family is fairly new here as well; only three generations before mine, but that means they were on the right side of the ocean for the war.     For the 1,000 char breaker, if you write your comment off-line, like in word or something.; then in your on-line comment box, type in just the first word or so (it’s a 4 char minimum to post) then post it. After posting, click the edit button; then copy and paste the rest of your off line work in and repost. The copy and paste buttons are on your tool bar. It goes faster if you copy your off-line work first, then post, edit, paste and submit.
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  • Few weeks ago.
  • been a longtime my friend...+6 also, tried to leave you message under our long post, but the system would not allow it. Glad you guys had fun fishing!
  • itchnatucky river, idk how longa go
  • I just like hearing from you here, I guess K. :) Next time I'll say that instead, how's that? Guess I've wondered how you'd respond to the Rolands' ministry, as well. Incidentally, I know of a friend, a nurse from New Zealand, who served on short-term missions at one of these orphanages.   Yes, miracles abounded on a regular basis, but people were still people, too: there was some re-structuring that had needed to occur in the organization to make it move more smoothly, which was in the process of happening; there were a few other things that needed 'tweaking' with the running of things, but that was slowly being looked into, as well. While they're not perfect people, they are learning to walk within the giftings God has given them. I'll be going on one of these short-term missions before long, though I don't sense a particular 'drawing' to IRIS Min. (...don't go there! lol!) --- probably with either a Native Indian reserve or with Inuit in Nunavut in my own country with a team that my brother & his Native wife will lead, when they get back from the Kona coast. (They'd done outreach teams ministry in Tonga, Vanuatu, Semoa & the like --- sure they're grieving & praying for recent 'victims of weather' there, where the land is flat & devastation would be paramount.) Yeah, there are the miracles, but so much suffering is still interspersed inbetween. That's the hard part! And its just so much easier for miracles to not be 'blocked' over there because people aren't resistant to the very idea of them.   Personally, I've laid hands on 2 people who've died & prayed for life to return to them. No, it didn't. But that won't stop me from praying, IF I & other discerning Christian friends strongly sense from Jesus or Holy Spirit that "its not yet their time to die." Jesus raised the dead & said his followers would do much more than he did in the healing arena.   K, while I don't like the stress of people calling me an idiot or whatever when I share stuff like this on AB, I'm much more concerned (not as in 'worried' --- as in that's what matters to me) about what Jesus will say to me when we all stand before him at the end of time. (!!!!!!!) (I've never used that many exclamation marks before --- don't think I ever will again.) I looked for Phillis' comment you'd mentioned but can't locate it. Could you help me on that one?   Home-schooling was so incredibly (mean credibly, but doesn't sound right) ~FUN~ yesterday!! We were studying about Christianity being brought to the Anglo-Saxons through St. Augustine (the one from the 600's AD, not the 300's AD who wrote City of God, etc.) though it was introduced to the A-S's earlier & we were reading about monasteries: we'll be preparing a recipe of lentil soup that monks may have eaten (given in this history & geography material) & will have a blast! ...Not too sure if the girls will be able to 'stay silent' for the whole meal, though... Ha!! Maybe we'll really get into it & serve the family supper with long brown robes or something. :) (Got to think what I could use for that...)   Well, I'd better get there! :D ... Happy writing. Hmm, maybe not 'happy' writing, but hope its a fruitful day for you in that regard writer friend. :)
  • Yesterday. Its called Stjørdals Elv
  • About three months ago in the river behind my house....The Embarrass River...(Pronounced - Ambraw).
  • ... oops again ... ':)
  • last summer in the spokane river

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