The ranch was closed up, the irrigation pump turned off, the fields were dry. The desert had made inroads into recovering the property. I went to the ...county court house to find out what happened to the place.Gert had willed it to me and not said a word. I guessed that she cared for me like I had cared for her. I found a note in the file that her lawyer had the deed to the property, the keys, access to an account with some money in it and a letter for me. I made an appointment to pay him a. Esme turns to the kitchen but Gabi has gone, so she does a precarious balancing act while stepping into the knickers, turning as she does, so I get a very brief view of her buttocks before the fabric covers them.When Esme does this sort of thing she kind of brazens it out, playing the eccentric mature woman who has seen it all and assumes everyone else has too. In this way, she can dismiss any objections from Gabi as petty and prissy.“You enjoy la cabaña?” she asks me. “Not cold?”“It's cold but. Senior simply bought up the competitor, and then made my father a much improved offer, by naming him as the senior vice president. My father was so ambitious, so anxious to make his mark in life, to overcome his humble beginnings, that he finally agreed to marry Mama.Of course, as soon as Dad did finally agree, Mama started playing hard to get. According to Uncle Bunny, it was Mama's sudden coyness that had enraged my Dad, and caused him to get stubborn as well. Some of Uncle Bunny's comments. "What!" said D."Yeah that lot, well bar Trisha, seemed to have had a change of heart about me and wanted me to join their little club," I said."Bleah!" said Jane, "I trust you told them where to stick it!" Yeah, though I was more diplomatic than that," I said."That's my girl," said Jane hugging me with a great big smile on her face, "Now let's get some lunch I'm famished."We joined the queue and got our lunches and sat down to eat. I was as hungry as always and wolfed down my lunch even got.