" No buts!" Mrs. Dahlstrom insisted. "I'll explain about our visitors after your dad and Junior get back. Will they be long?" Shouldn't be, Grandma," ...ustin answered. "They want to mess up our tire tracks so the chinks don't know we put the livestock up in the hills. They were almost done when they sent me ahead."Justin shed his hat and coat, took off his wet boots and followed his grandmother out to the kitchen, leaving Josh and Molly alone again. Grandmother and grandson were returning to the. "Lunchtime came and went rather uneventfully though it was clear what the main topic of discussion was at everyone's table. After lunch, as promised, the new curriculum was voted on."Has the board made a decision?" questioned the chairman."Yes we have, Mr. Chairman." How say ye?" We vote in favor of the new curriculum by a margin of one vote."There was an undercurrent of hushed moans, giggles and general muffled conversation."Well, this is a surprise," stated the chairman. "I need to get this. ” Claudia hinted.While Erin went to the bathroom Claudia spoke with Dan about her. He agreed with her suggestion and waited for her return. “She complimented me on my looks and regretted that I’m married. She said I’d be easy to fall in love with and have a family with,” he told her.“Erin wants to have a baby with you too?!” She cried. “First there was Tina, then Brooke, and now Erin too?! You aren’t getting any women pregnant until you get me pregnant first!” She said, tapping her chest.“So. Walking around the place, my eyes crawl along the barren walls, stripped of some kind of wallpaper. A few lamps had survived the move of the early owners and a couple of closets still decorated two of the bedrooms. ‘I’ll have to look through them to see if they’re worth keeping.’ I go to the bathroom and look around. It’s the only place of color in the entire house. It’s painted a bright blue that makes my eyes squint. I glare into the mirror hanging on the bathroom wall, just to receive a.