He fumbled in the dark with the cross bar and opened the door up wide to let the dusty air into the house, along with the tepid sunlight. Then it star...ed to rain. In minutes, the dust settled and Pa and I went about the task or uncovering all the windows and unbarring the front door.As we came back in to where our unexpected guests were looking around our kitchen in amazement. "Oh my word," the pretty young woman exclaimed, "You people are civilized."Ma looked at her in amazement. Pa did a. Ivan jumped up and followed her out, saying he would get in with her. Joy rolled into my arms and nuzzled up to me. I have to admit I was suddenly overcome with feelings, love, protectiveness, and even some jealousy. Powerful stuff and really hurt in my chest: nothing I could do. I knew if I opened my mouth I was going to say something stupid and soppy and not what she wanted to hear I was certain. I just lay there hurting until she pulled me up saying she wanted a shower. I am sure she knew. Really primo shit.” Dave pulled a bag of high grade marijuana from his backpack and handed it to Vanessa for inspection. “You guys wanna get down?”Neither of us were regular stoners but certainly no strangers to herbal recreation. “Sounds good to me” Vanessa said eagerly. “Anything to help this hangover.”Dave rolled a fat joint and the three of us passed it around. The effect took hold quickly, and I could tell that it was much stronger than anything I’d had before. We fell into a stoned. The next big task was getting the baggage off the plane. The baggage carts were pulled beside the plane and the offloading began. There was an estimated 400 bags to deal with.The county officials started making appearances for the free publicity, along with a couple more news organizations.Duke Justice, the county commissioner whose son had tried to kill me, came in and made a beeline straight to me."How can the county help? What do you need?" he asked."I could use three or four county ride.