Newbrassky

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The cossack nods.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Hey Slim, that there russky feller keeps looking at you and sayin Da, you got chillins from a Ferin land?

[Scattered Thumbs]

Hey Tom, no insult intended cause they is a fine automobile, got one to prove it!)

Author's note: Now, I understand what you meant when you said you had big pockets.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother looks up at the man on the horse. "Would you like some coffee, Mils Yenots?"

The Russian repeats, "da."

So, she gets up to pour a cup, adding some extra into the pot to make it really thick, and takes it out to the stranger.

[Delmonico]

A delivery wagon pulls up, Delmonico goes out, gets the real goldfish and puts them in the pond.  His eye is on the Cossack to make sure he ain't spreadin' Brome grass.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

After handing over the cup, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother watches Delmonico stock the pond. Suddenly, her face lights up.

"You're talking Jabberwocky!! Now I understand! Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the borogoves, and the brome grass outgrabe!"

With a triumphant grin, she meanders back to the porch.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Hey Slim, that there russky feller keeps looking at you and sayin Da, you got chillins from a Ferin land?

"Not that I know of."

[Silver Creek Slim]

After handing over the cup, the Frumpy Fairy Godmother watches Delmonico stock the pond. Suddenly, her face lights up.

"You're talking Jabberwocky!! Now I understand! Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe, All mimsy were the borogoves, and the brome grass outgrabe!"

With a triumphant grin, she meanders back to the porch.

"Huh?" 

[Delmonico]

<Authors Note:  Slim help me here, did you find up in SD that the Chinese Chickens were in the Brome Grass or the Native Prarie Grass most of the time?  Brome grass is as bad a curse of the prairie as cedar trees. >

[Silver Creek Slim]

<Arthur's note: Don't remember seeing much Brome grass.>

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

The Frumpy Fairy Godmother frowns then goes upstairs to her room. A few minutes later, she comes back down.

"Here! It's in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, written by Lewis Carroll in 1872! Jabberwocky! Brome grass outgrabe!!"

With a humph, she flings herself into her rocker.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Yes, but what does it mean in plain English?" 

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"Well, according to Delmonico's paranoia, the brome grass outgrabe, or outgrew its confines and is going to be spread by your cousin Mils over there."

A small smile and she picks up her crocheting.

[Silver Creek Slim]

"Oh."

[Delmonico]

<It's taken over in SE Newbrassky, pushin' out the more desirable Native grasses.  It is to the grass world what the Starling is to the US bird world.>

With the fish pond finished, Delmonico parks the steam shovel for later use and ponders on his next adventure.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Meanwhile, the puppies break out of Delmonico's door to tumble into his room. They immediately begin to chew on everything within reach and poop all over the floor, doing their part to earn coal for Christmas.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim goes to the barn to milch the cow and gather eggs. He comes outta the barn and yells, "Who changed my cow into a bull?!?!" 

Slim

[Delmonico]

<Author's Note: Delmonico does not comment cause he don't want censored by the moderator of this forum.>

Delmonico just cleans up the mess and plots the next adventure.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Irish walks away from the cossack and over to Del.  Hey del lookit tha funny plants Mils done got in iz saddlebags!

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/patterns/brome_grass.htm

[Sod Buster]

Slim goes to the barn to milch the cow and gather eggs. He comes outta the barn and yells, "Who changed my cow into a bull?!?!" 

Slim

Did ya notice that before or after you started milching?