Newbrassky

[Delmonico]

Duke the Yaller dog comes to the kitchen door and whines, Delmonico opens it and lets him in, they are the only ones awake at the ranch and Delmonico is cookin' up a storm.  Out in the yard a sleigh lands, being pulled by 8 pronghorn antelope and behind it is 2 large freight wagons being pulled by 8 Bison each, the wagons are loaded with coal which is unloaded by a bunch of elves into the old dugout.

Delmonico and duke don't hear them, they are takin' a break and fryin' some steaks for a late supper.  As the steaks get done Delmonico gets out the phony-graph and puts on that Christmas song and Duke chimes in.

I was in the arroyo, gathering strays, ya see cowboys and cattle don't get holidays.
I would have been finished except for on little guy, who kept leading me farther away.
Up on the mesa and through a ravine, past the Indian ruins and a muddy red stream.
I stopped for a moment cause I was bone tired and I guess that I started to dream.
I saw three painted horses, three dark skinned men, masks made of clay and voices like wind.

We seek the soul of all that is good, we come bearing gifts of corn, water and wood.
Stop and behold, all that is good, give thanks for the corn, water and wood.

Now I'm an ol' trail hand and all that I belive is yer boots and your saddle are all that you leave.
No miracles happen, no angels appear, yet there were three men standing there.
I shook myself over, had I been asleep, that's three Pueblo children, tending their sheep.
And they yelled Merry Christmas as the brought me my stray,
and their voices rang through the mesquite.

We seek the soul of all that is good, we come bearing gifts of corn, water and wood.
Stop and behold, all that is good, give thanks for the corn, water and wood.

We seek the soul of all that is good, we come bearing gifts of corn, water and wood.
Stop and behold, all that is good, give thanks for the corn, water and wood.


Merry Christmas from all the gang at The Ranch With No Name.

[Sod Buster]

wagons are loaded with coal which is unloaded by a bunch of elves into the old dugout.

One piece of coal, enchanted with Christmas Magic, comes to life and starts singing:
"I'm just an old chunk of coal,
But I'm gonna be a diamond some day..."

[Sod Buster]

Sod Buster can't sleep tonight so he decides to do some baking:
-Sweet Potato Biscuits
-Turkey Pot Pie <--from some of the Turkey the Ranch boys brought by earlier - Thanks!
-Corn Fritters
.................

After baking, Sod Buster grabs a jug and sits down to wait for Santy Klaus - but he passes out before Santa git there........

[Delmonico]

Delmonico opens the kitchen door and hollors, "come and get it ya heathens and has ham, eggs, biscuits, sinner-man rolls, coffee for breakfast and lots of goodies a cookin' for dinner. (noon that is)

[Ozark Tracker]

with the noon time meal eaten and leftovers still on the table, everyone realizes that Trinity really did go to his sisters.  Food left over is almost unheard of around here.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim arrives from the northeast wearing the red flannel shirt he got from the Frumpy Fairy Godmother fer Xmas last year. 

[Ozark Tracker]

the boys at the ranch, see Slim wearing a mighty fine shirt and they wonder silently why he didn't put on the rest of his clothes.

it's kinda cool out.

[Sod Buster]

Slim obviously misunderstood the meaning of Boxing Day.  He thought is was No-Boxers Day so he left his trousers at home.

[Ozark Tracker]

I bet he seen that boxing day in Canada on the Calendar yesterday.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Slim, gettin' a might chilly, runs into the ranch house with his warbags.

[Ozark Tracker]

with it being a might chilly,  Ozark goes to the coal bin and finds what looks like several train cars of coal, he brings back a bucket full for the fire,

[Trinity]

Trinity arrives at the ranch house with a large bag full of seed from various fruits to try in the Newbrassky soil.

"Looky what Ah gots fer Christmas!!  Mah fambly done give these to me fer use at tha steel.  ...But Ah gotta wait 'til after they's growed."

[Ozark Tracker]

everybody starts a looking at Trinity's seed and Sod Buster starts sorting em out so we'll know what to plant next to what.

[Trinity]

"Hey!  Leave them seeds alone!  You only know about them yucky seeds!"

[Ozark Tracker]

Trinity gets out the new type growing device he got in At lantra,  a chia pet,  he sits it up near a window wets it down nad spreads his seed on, then he sits down

and waits fer the results.

[Trinity]

"Them folk in the mercantile kep' sayin' 'Ch Ch Chia '.  Ah jus' hadta have me one.  Ah even foun' me one what looked lahk a sheep fer the sheep marshal."

[Ozark Tracker]

Ch Ch Chia?  that is a catchy little tune,   I reckon these things'll be the wave of the future.

that'll keep the sheepherder outa trouble a trying to grorw him something.

[Trinity]

"Ch Ch Chia... Ch Ch Chia  Yep, yore raht.  It shore is catchy.  Hair, Ah done brought ya a Turkey.  Ya kin make it grow a mohawk."

[Ozark Tracker]

Ya reckon it'll cause Injun problems out here,  you know it wouldn't be politically correct in about 150 years.  we'd have ta call it a Native American Hair Cut of the Mohawk Tribe.

[Trinity]

"Ah don' keer none 'bout po-liticalness.  Them folk in tha future kin kiss mah <BEEP>!"