The cloth bandana filtered out most of the sand and dirt so the water, if not clean, was drinkable.About an hour later, first Bowie and then Buddy rai...ed their heads and looked east. Rafe noticed the horse's interest and pulled his Winchester. I reckon another bounty hunter could be on my trail, he thought. Rafe walked to the edge of the stand of cottonwoods and looked back over the trail.The land was so flat that he could see a couple of miles or more before the shimmering heat waves obscured. I checked with Ben and Lucas to explore the possibility of making Liz’s Saturday outing a “family” affair. The guys were assisting me on a variety of different projects already but took time to assure me that the event organizers were so thrilled to have Liz make an appearance that they would readily agree if she wanted to bring random strangers off the street.I spoke personally with the chairman of the committee that organized the event and got his blessing before broaching the subject with. "I need to see you," Laura said. "God, I've missed you. When can I see you?"Silence. Then painful silence. "Oh... maybe Friday," Deshona finally said, very remote.Laura tried not to panic. "What's the matter?"Silence. "Nothing."This was Tuesday. Waiting until Friday was unendurable. They had already waited nearly two weeks. "Deshona, I have to see you. I... love you." Maybe we better give the 'L' word a rest for a while." Something is wrong." No," Deshona said, airily. "Call me Friday. We'll. Then out of nowhere came another one of those weird surprises, as Momlooked over at me, while I was taking down some glasses from the shelf.Oh wait, honeybunny that one glass is much too big for someone your ageto use. Let me look in the cabinet for one that's more your size sweetie.I watched as mom went into the cabinet, in about a minute, she hadsomething in her hand.Oh, come on really, dang! just great! She has to be kidding me, she hadHolli's old "PRINCESS" sippy cup. It was about 5-inches.