Picnics and family outings of every size and shape and form. Shopping with my daughters and the hilarity of seeing Mike's grumpy face mirrored exactly...by my sons as they impatiently waited for us. Watching them all grow up and fall in love themselves and the arrival of my grandchildren and then my great-grandchildren.Even those terrifying times had times of joy. Seeing Stephanie come out of the operating room with a smile on her face and the announcement that Mike had "dodged another one". The. Reliant’s part in the experiment was to find a suitable test site, meaning a planet with the right size, mass, gravity, and other necessary factors… with absolutely no life on its surface. The Genesis Device, an enhanced torpedo-like mechanism, rearranged matter at the subatomic level upon impact with the surface and would destroy any type of life that was there. If there was so much as a microbe on the surface, the planet would be considered ‘unusable’. And that was the main problem they had.. That spanking really had hurt. “I learnt to spank so hard because the boys I spanked had tough bottoms so if I didn’t spank hard I never got a reaction from them. Like James. He cries like a good’un now though.” That didn’t make me feel any better about him having watched me being spanked. She gave my bottom a pat and added “Your very spankable bottom was a dream I can tell you Nina.” Emma put her hands on my shoulder and turned me around so we were facing each other. She was. But of greatest interest to the Jackson family will be the crime of the ransom kidnapping of one Billy Jackson. In case you weren’t aware, in Nevada, that is a capital crime. If found guilty, you will be executed.”Ed reached to the holster on his hip. It was empty.“Sorry, Ed, we took it. You are a sound sleeper. We also took the derringers from your boots. And the knives. Both of them. The one on your belt and the one on your back. We aim to see you stand before the judge and not get killed in.