Looking back on the whole exchange, I really envied Shaggy.0715pm:I’m standing out in the middle of the rain slicked street talking to Claudia who ...is sitting in somebody’s car. I don’t know at this point how I came to be involved in so much unwanted drama by simply trying to avoid an uncomfortable conversation.Was I really so wrong for wanting to just have a day without bullshit? Hell, all things considered, it had been a pretty strange and good day up until I put my foot in my mouth. I’d been. Nodding his head, he said, "That General is a little smarter than the last one." He saved half of his men by surrendering," Sid said in agreement. He had held off signaling the attack until the General had organized his forces in the hope of such an outcome."One more battle to go and the citadel will be secure," Masterson said pointing to the south. They expected the southern forces to arrive the next day."Yes, the citadel will be secure for the moment," Sid said. He looked off to the east and. We returned to the house for lunch. Doug and Michelle had the tractors there with the disc for plowing the garden up on one. The front-end loader was there also, with a wagon full of old manure and straw behind it. Lunch was spent with Michelle and Sara sharing what they had seen and done during the morning. Doug was happy to hear about the hot tub and said he hoped it would be ready by this evening. I assured him that it was going to be, but besides him and me no else had a bathing suit, which. Mendez watched me approach, the same concerned look in his eyes that my father always had whenever I climbed into Gregory Hansen’s pretty blue chevy truck. Thankfully, he didn’t say anything. I really didn’t want to hear it. It took a lot of cursing and sweaty work to get the transfer case tucked up into place, the brand new u-joints hooked to it, and the dirty drive shafts– one heading to the front differential and one heading to the rear– settled in. Finally, hours later, it was done. Mendez.