On their way out, I overheard them talking about grabbing some fish ‘n chips from the visiting mobile food van that visited every week, parking outs...de the local store. They seemed to have lost interest in MJ for now, probably because they knew she was with me and that meant that they weren’t going to get too far with her.That left just Dave, MJ, and I, as well as one older guy who was sitting alone at the bar working on a new pint. His attention focused on a sports game showing on a tv behind. Finally, "I've got a problem..."Jeff couldn't remember seeing Dave quite as intense. "You got money problems? If that's it, you damn well know we'll..." No, no, Jeff. Heck, you're overpaying us now, and the company is doing fine." I'm not overpaying you, but what gives? Come on, out with it. We'll solve it together. If we can't do it, I'll call a family meeting. We've got enough brains in this building to get it solved, whatever it is."Dave sighed, "I don't know whether it has an answer or not,. Truth be told, in all the excitement I'd completely forgotten about the "problem" I'd come to see her about. I hadn't heard her come in at all and wondered just how much of my fucking one of her teachers she'd seen."Principal Hutchinson, I..." I heard the teacher say beneath me, struggling to somehow wiggle free of me or cover up or make some pathetic attempt to make it look like anything other than it was. I held her firm though."You know Amelia," Irene said to me as she approached the desk,. Dad had used the BrushHog last and it was a mess. I told everyone that was what I was going to work on today and Karen and Patty said they wanted to help. Mom said she was going to take Claude some breakfast over while we worked on it.We went down to the barn and I fired the tractor up. With the help of the girls, I hooked the BrushHog on to the tractor and brought it out.We hooked up a garden hose and the girls hosed it down. There was a lot of mud and such and we ended up having to use a.