We slept poorly that night.The next mornin' I decided to take the girls into the nearest town of Hand Springs. Ma had a friend livin' there who offere... to take the girls in an' introduce them into society an' try to git them married off. Philomena wuz goin' on 14 an' I didn't want no old maid on my hands. I hitched up the swayback to the buckboard an' we started out.We wuzn't even half way there afore the swayback up an' died on us. I guess the strain wuz too much for her. We'd have to walk the. She asked if her and the baby could go, that the baby would be asleep in a vehicle in just a few minutes. At this point I got so fucking hard it hurt! So we loaded up to headed to town. As I was driving down the road she was sitting in the passenger seat of my truck. I cleared out the middle seat, flipped up the console and told her to come here. At that point I just wanted to hold her and feel that closeness for some reason... Thats not me at all. She had different ideas.She leaned in, kissed. " Hey, honey, where are you?", Jen said with a slight nervous sound in her voice."More to the point, Jen, where are you, I called home at 7:30 this morning and you weren't there; where were you, and why is your cell phone turned off?" I'm sorry, honey, I turned it off when we worked out. Well, Julie and I have started working out at Curves [they got their stories straight already], and we decided to go early this morning."I told Jen that I was glad she was working out, so that we could work out. The new technology the lane and driveway were made of, were clear of any snow as it had been melting upon contact with the road, which always stayed at a constant temperature, warm enough to melt snow in the winter, yet cool enough that you could be barefoot on the hottest summer day and not burn your feet.During this downtime, they had been contemplating about what to do with the ranch. One of the options was to revert the ranch back to the way it was, before all the alien upgrades and sell.