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[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim rides into the dooryard. "Howdy y'all!"

[Delmonico]

Not noticin' him Delmonico drops a load of sand on him.   He then heads back to the river for some gravel.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim and his horse dig themselves outta the sand. Slim takes his horse to the barn.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico drops the load of sand and heads to the barn for portland cement.

[Trinity]

From the porch, Trinity chuckles at Slims misfortune.  He takes a sniff at his coffee, smiles and drinks.  As Slim walks up, he holds up his mug and asks: "D'ya wan' a cup?  Ah made it!"

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Uuuuuuuuh, no thanks I'll make my own." Slim walks into the kitchen to make some coffee.

[Delmonico]

Delmonico is out in the yard with a wooden trough mixin' concrete.

[Delmonico]

By dark Delmonico has finished linin' the fish pond and has cleaned up his hoe, trowels and the trough and wrote his name in the wet concrete.

[litl rooster]

litl' rooster heads into Dunning with the team FFg brought back with her. Upon reaching the city, I am stopped by group of Townies who are willing to pay 2 bits a person for a ride in the wagon...While traveling back along the Dismall I get this ideal> if'n they are willing to pay just for a ride in the wagon. How much would they be willing to pay to come stay at a real ranch. Then maybe help with the chores and fencing and such.....Ah that's crazy no one would ever pay to do that

[Trinity]

When Del's not looking, Trinity also writes his name in the cement.

[Trinity]

Later, Duke chases Claire around the unfinished fish pond.

[Delmonico]

Knowing that it is cold enough to freeze the pond solid, Delmonico orders a stock tank heater when he orders the goldfish.  He figgers Slim can throw some coal into it every mornin' on his way to milk.

(Delmonico makes a note that with a littler over a month and a half till Christmas he needs to be really bad so that Santa will bring him a large amount of coal for Christmas. )

With this in mind he fills Stoney Pete's coffee pot with wet concrete with soot from the stove pipe added. (Stoney will figger his coffee hardened)  He then goes out to the range and finds a bull exacly the same color as Slim's milk cow and puts it in the stall in the barn and hides Slim's cow.

Next he puts coal oil in Trinity's jug and Irish Tom's bottle.  Then with a runnin' iron he writes obsenities on the sides of several of litl roosters cow's.   

He then goes to the cupboard, gets a can of sardines and puts it in the FFg's fish pond.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Irish sees Del and walks up with his bottle.  Taking a long drink he looks sort of funny then says, Must be tha weather in these parts, but this tastes a wee bit weak this mornin!  He then wanders over and adds his name to the list of notables christening the pond walls.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

After dark, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother sneaks out, removes the sardines from the future pond, and adds her name as well, in a place away from the others.

[Delmonico]

Just before it sets completely, Delmonico writes POOP in the concrete.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim walks out to the porch and sees writing in the cement pond. "The Vandals have attacked!"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He runs to his room, locks the door behind him, grabs the "Mighty Ten", and peers out the window.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

*Just* before the concrete sets, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother looks up to Slim's window and grins. She takes out a BIG stick and all around Delmonico's word, she writes Slim's name in GIGANTIC, easily read letters.

[Delmonico]

With the concrete set, Delmonico runs a pipe from the windmill and fills the pond.  As it gets done the tank heater and the goldfish arrive.  Delmonico looks at the paackages with the gooldfish in them, sees Pepperidge Farms on the sacks and realizes there has been a mix up.

[Silver Creek Slim]

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

As the pond starts to fill, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother takes off her shoes and socks, then waves merrily to Slim. She knows he can read his own name from up there. Wading out of the pond, she snags a package of goldfish from Delmonico and munches on them on her way to the porch.