Pebble Bowling

I slipped right past the cracked screen door and out onto the sunny wooden deck—clack, clack! Fresh, breezy air everywhere! Down at the bottom of the steps, a huge terracotta saucer was sitting in the sun, piled high with smooth gray river pebbles. *Gasp!* A real obstacle course! I bounded down the wooden steps—thud, clack, thud—and leaped straight into the dish! Whoosh! The pebbles rolled right under my cone shoes like miniature bowling balls! I slipped, wobbled, and landed flat on my tummy, sending stones clattering against the clay rim with a loud rattle! What an absolute thrill!