We sent ‘the crew’ back to the States. We stayed in New Zealand.”I was ‘multi-tasking.’ While I was talking to Bea ... and Junior ... and Al...ert, I was checking out the tipi. It was correct as far as the Laubin’s direction went. But it was typical Boy Scout’s in decor ... sleeping bags, carpet and sorta lawn chairs ... a planed down 2x12 back with a slot cut for a 2x12 seat with an extension through the slot. Two pieces of wood and a little sawing and it’s a seat.“Nice chairs, Burt.” I was more. "Ahhh, on my way now," came the reply.Bill hearing the conversation was a little worried. The last thing he wanted was to have someone mad at him here. Adam saw the look on Bill's face and said, "Don't worry son, you're in good hands with Tex."Buck quipped, "Yep, but I bet Sue's hands felt better just now to Tex."Bill caught the joke and was still laughing with the other men when Tex came stomping in. "Ok old man, this had better be good. I was so close to heaven, I could hear the music. And then it had dawned on them: the Urners had come. They had sneaked into the valley despite the snow storm and had ambushed the Grendel Wolde village. These godless heathens had come on a sunday morning where the godloving people of the mountain goat tribe were at mass. There was an uproar, much loader than the noise now heard outside of the church, the men were fuming and several were running towards the heavy oaken doors to defend their village against the pillagers, to smother the flames. And about the rest of us, but he's done things that no Christian wife can be expected to understand. That's all that you really need to understand about that. Just don't be surprised by anything," Mom told her, trying desperately to close the subject of her sister's dysfunctional marriage."You mean like showing up around town in a dress, answering to 'Aunt Leigh, ' right?" Dad coldly dismissed his brother-in-law."Now, Larry, there's no need for talking about it, is there? It's very embarrassing.