From here, the settlement at Council Bluffs looked the same as it did last year. Samuel fired his revolver three times to get the attention of someone...on the far side of the river. An hour or so later, a canoe reached our side of the shore, handing Samuel a stout rope. We tied it to my horse and I headed away from the river, dragging the rope. When it stopped suddenly, I damn near fell off my horse and everyone laughed at me.The rope I’d been pulling was attached to three ropes, two of them. .. but they paid. I was pissed about their attitude and used the watch twice more ... once for Jean ... and once for Charlie Arthur. That'll teach those bastards.Three winners in a row from one gas station in an itty bitty village on the west coast of Michigan suddenly turned the Shell Station into the 'go to' place to buy tickets.The little places in Michigan are dying. There's nothing to keep the kids at home ... and it's just a few years until the auto industry goes into a full blown panic.. She liked getting them turned on, and I was okay with it. I thought she could teach them how to be good lovers, so they would make good husbands. In fact, I would not have had a problem with her teaching the boys sex, if it came around to that.I was in the security business. There had been a rash of rapes and robberies in my neighborhood, and I decided to put mini cameras in all of the rooms and motion detectors around the outside. I didn't think I was overdoing paranoia, because our next door. "I thought you wouldn't be back until after dinner," I said."Well, not only ladies in their teen years can just change their minds, right Judy?. Plus, well you know," Connie replied."Yeah, they know now. About us and you," Judy said."What did you tell them," Connie asked."Yes. They put the pieces together and asked if the brother did the sister in the bedroom," I replied."Once again I can barely tell Connie. Congratulations," Jane said as she got up and hugged her.They hugged rather tightly for.