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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother blinks as the paintings change before her eyes, then something Delmonico says catches her full attention.

"Back in nineteen sixty four? Back? Delmonico, where did those flying plates take you??"

It'not the flying plates Annie Lee, Delmonico has a modified DeLorean stashed somewhere. 

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother twists around in her chair to look behind her. Seeing no one there, she looks back to the painting.

"Who is AnnieLee?"

[Scattered Thumbs]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother blinks as the paintings change before her eyes, then something Delmonico says catches her full attention.

"Back in nineteen sixty four? Back? Delmonico, where did those flying plates take you??"

It'not the flying plates Annie Lee, Delmonico has a modified DeLorean stashed somewhere. 

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother twists around in her chair to look behind her. Seeing no one there, she looks back to the painting.

"Who is AnnieLee?"

<C. Clarke's note: The painting remains silent, cause no one told him yet if he has a good Poker hand nor if the stakes were worth being changed to a dog.>

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother gets an exasperated look.

"I don't know what your hand will be, and the stakes are the pot, I suppose. It all depends on which dog you become, but if you are the entire painting, you are ALL the dogs, and then you win everything on the table in the painting. Now who is AnnieLee??"

[Scattered Thumbs]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother gets an exasperated look.

"I don't know what your hand will be, and the stakes are the pot, I suppose. It all depends on which dog you become, but if you are the entire painting, you are ALL the dogs, and then you win everything on the table in the painting. Now who is AnnieLee??"

Wof! Wof!

[litl rooster]

Never trust a St Bernard wearing blue tinted glasses at the table.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother pauses, then shakes her head.

"What am I doing? The man is insane, why do I expect him to be rational?"

She gets up from her seat to look for something to cook for dinner.

[Trinity]

Hearing the clatter of pans, Trinity and the dogs arrive as if called.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"Trinity! Duke! Daisy! Claire! Did you hear the pans?" The Frumpy Fairy Godmother grins. "To go with our porkchops, I've got fresh peas, tomatoes, and squash!"

[Trinity]

Trinity and Claire leave.  Duke and Daisy stay, not really understanding what was said.

On their way out Trinity whispers to Claire: "We kin git some meat what's hangin' up in smokehouse."  Claire yelps excitedly and runs in circles around Trinity as they walk out the door.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

After they leave, she winks to Duke and Daisy.

"Ha! He fell for it! More for us!" And she gets out the stacks of ribs with mashed potatoes with gravy.

[Trinity]

Outside, the smell of ribs wafts to Trinity's and Claire's noses.  *Sniff* *Sniff*  "MMMMMMM,  You smail that lil' one?  Ah thank we done been had!  Ah gots me an idear."

Claire listens intently as he explains his plan.  Then together they head over to the ash pile and both have great fun rolling about until they have covered themselves completely in ash and are ghostly grey.

Gingerly, they walk back to the house and creep inside.  They listen to the happy sounds of the trio munching and enjoying ribs with mashed potatoes with gravy ( ).  Claire looks up at Trinity and he silently mouths "One... two... THREE!"  

They burst into the kitchen with Claire howling and Trinity "ooga-booga-ing"

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The three rib eaters all make sounds of startlement: a small shriek, a bark, and a yip. Then Duke lunges forward to bite Trinity on his ashy as... rear. The Frumpy Fairy Godmother knocks over her chair as she stands, pulling out her wand, then she squints, does a double take, and starts laughing.

Pointing a finger at them as she laughs, she manages to choke out:

"You fell in the ash pit on the way to the smokehouse! What a pair of weiners!"

[litl rooster]

They burst into the kitchen with Claire howling and Trinity "ooga-booga-ing"

what a mental picture  

[Stoney Pete]

They burst into the kitchen with Claire howling and Trinity "ooga-booga-ing"

what a mental picture  

Hearing the commotion inside, Stoney goes to investigate.  Trinity and Clare are covered in ash.  Trinity's scary noises have turned to screams cause of the pain in his...butt   Duke is drinkin water to get the ash out.

"Glad, to see everything is status quo in hear.  FFG, is there enough for me or shall I cook more?"

[Stoney Pete]

The three rib eaters all make sounds of startlement: a small shriek, a bark, and a yip. Then Duke lunges forward to bite Trinity on his ashy as... rear. The Frumpy Fairy Godmother knocks over her chair as she stands, pulling out her wand, then she squints, does a double take, and starts laughing.

Pointing a finger at them as she laughs, she manages to choke out:

"You fell in the ash pit on the way to the smokehouse! What a pair of weiners!"

Authors note:  I'm verking Overtime.  It's 6:08 in the am.  This was a very funny installment.  Made my day.  Sure glad I wasn't drinking

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes out of his office, "For some reason after my last ab-duck-ion I have a strange craving for soft bland food.  There's tapioca puddin' in the ice box."

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes out of his office with a bamboo fly rod and a can of his favorite fly, the pink wiggler.   I'm tired of plain ol' tater soup, I'm going fishing and catch me a couple catfish to add to my tator soup and make it fish chowder.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico comes back from the river looking puzzled,   "Well I got me some fish for my chowder, but I didn't catch on durn catfish, can't figger out why all I caught was Alaskan Pollack?"

"Oh well they'll be good in my chowder."

[litl rooster]

litl rooster is scratching his head watching Delmonico clean his so called Alaskan Pollack...It looks like a fresh water drum(a scavenger) a nice size one. Could the reasent ab-duck-ion of Delmonico"s, have caused some kind of memory loss or mental confusion??? I am sure Del know's his fish. Still even more so why would he want to use that nice bamboo fly rod to catch catfich when the trot lines are baited and set? litl rooster gets up from his desk and rummages thru a box of fishing gear and finds the new leader and tippet he ordered for his bamboo rod and reel. Later.

[Trinity]

Meanwhile, Trinity STANDS at the table and enjoys his ribs with mashed potatoes and gravy!  He dops a rib down to Claire as needed.