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Had anyone else who purchased the DVD box set noticed that season 2 isn't in the correct order? It's really bothering me lol

So sorry to hear about your loss Garrett. I know exactly what it feels like. We lost Daisy 7 years ago and her sister Angel the next year and didn't get another dog until last year. Now our dog is almost 2 years old and also has a Dukes name, Lulu.....well, a middle name that is. Her name is Mocha but then became MochaLou and then MochaLouLou. Sometimes she gets called Lulu....quite a bit actually. Flash the cat is long gone, replaced by Nala from Lion King. I don't remember a single cat on Dukes.

Season 2 episodes were shown out of sequence when they originally aired, e.g. Daisy's Roadrunner reappears after it went over the cliff. We've covered this several times on the forum, but as I'm off to bed, I'll have to look out the links tomorrow, unless someone beats me to it.

Next morning as predicted, Sadie had her up in plenty of time to grocery shop, “See you after work, Dix”, BL said as they went to their cars, “see you after work,stay out of trouble”Dixie said, getting in her car. “Where’s the fun in that?” BL laughed following Dixie into town, the cousin’s turning opposite ways at the church. Dixie checked the clock and speeded up just a bit to make sure she would be on time. Meanwhile, over at Rhuebottom’s, BL wasn't the only Davenport out early. Luther saw her car outside as he pulled up. He had stopped by on his way to the garage to get some things for the garage that he never remembered to get unless he'd been out of them for a day or so, like toilet paper, sticky notes, paper towels for the bathroom that had been used when the toilet paper ran out and lights bulbs. He had already taken everyone from up stairs to replace the blown ones down stairs. Once inside he saw his niece grocery shopping. "Morning BL. What brings you in here this early." “Morning Luther, just picking up some things before work,”BL said, glad she didn’t have anything in her buggy yet that couldn't be for both home or the post office. Unsure whether he’d talked with Clyde she didn’t want to get into a discussion about the situation nor did she have time. “I best get this done so I ain’t late for work,” BL said. Luther said before she could step away, "I got a strange note from Dixie last night. It said she was at your place." BL asked, "What's strange about that?" Luther said, "The fact it was attached to a beer where several more had been. She's never taken beer from the house to ya'lls place." BL swore under her breath, there was no way to explain without outright lying or telling the complete truth, atleast those were the only options she saw at the moment… “I signed an agreement with Miz Tisdale about her house and we were there,” BL said at last, proud of herself, her answer was truthful but vague. Luther nodded, taking the information at face value for now since several others were coming in to shop early. "Alright." —------------------------- At the Duke Farm, Bo was enjoying a few extra minutes in bed as Luke had gotten up extra early to do all the morning chores before he left for work. BL was glad her Uncle had seemed to believe her story, not having any pots and pans, she went to the frozen foods, getting some tv dinners, a frozen lasagne and a family size chicken pot pie, and another frozen pizza. That should be enough for supper a few nights for herself, Dixie and Bo and Luke if they came over. Shopping done, BL went back to the house to put it away. “C’mon Sadie, let's go to work.” BL called to her dog. Making it just in the nick of time, BL hurried to park in back and leave Sadie inside “Morning Sam” BL said as the driver handed her a sack of mail. “Good morning Miss Davenport,” Sam answered. —-------------------- Bo had managed to sit down and try his best to find the people he had received the $100 from. He had planned on doing something special for their fan clubs until he found out there weren't any fan clubs for him, at least wise that he knew of. Pulling up in front of the Post Office, Bo climbed out of the General Lee and went inside. He began petting Sadie while BL waited on another customer. “Morning Bo”, BL said when the customer left. “Good morning” Bo flashed his trademark smile. “Here’s that list, those I could remember, anyway,” Bo handed her the list. ”Thanks” BL put the list in her back pocket. BL thought for a minute. She had seen some phonebooks under the counter. "Say,Bo, are you in a big hurry?" Bo replied, "No, why?" BL handed him a phone book and she took the other. She then pulled out the list of names and addresses Bo had given her. “See if you can find phone numbers for these people, if not maybe Luke’s newspaper friend can look them up on the computer or something,”BL said, beginning to look through the phonebook. “Good idea”, Bo said looking through the other phonebook. BL called Tri Counties and got Dixie on the phone. "Where can I meet you after work?" Dixie gave BL the name of a food place near the jail. She knew better than to ask why over the Hazzard phone system. BL hung up the phone and told Bo where Dixie had said to meet her after work. “I’m going with you,” Bo said. “Ok, tell Daisy she can come too, if she don’t have to work tonight. ‘I’ll tell Cooter he can come too, that is if I can talk to him, without Luther around. Luther seen me at Rheubottom’s this morning buying some groceries, thought he’d give me the third degree but he asked a few questions then went on with his shopping and let me finish mine. Dixie can call Luke and tell him, we are meeting up there in Tri-counties today instead of the Boar’s Nest or garage so we can talk private.” BL said. “Sounds like a plan, what time we leaving?” Bo asked. “Between 4 and 4:30. Do me a favor, ask Uncle Jesse if he minds puppy dog sitting. I don’t want to leave Sadie alone in an unfamiliar house for longer than I have to, if I have to. Ask him too if he’ll take over here, so I don’t have to close early,” BL said. “Sure thing honey. I better get back to the farm, see you later,” Bo said, heading to General Lee. —--------------------------- Cooter came in the post office about 11 to get the garage mail. Cooter petted Sadie while BL finished up with a customer. When they were alone BL told him about meeting Dixie at the food place near Tri-Counties jail and that Bo and possibly Daisy was going too. “Count me in,” Cooter said. BL told him when her and Bo were leaving. At 10 minutes to 4, General Lee and Jesse’s pickup parked in front of the post office. “Jesse Duke reporting for post office and puppy dog sitting duty ma’am” Uncle Jesse said, coming behind the counter. “I’m much obliged Uncle Jesse,” BL said. —------------------------- The training class that Luke was helping with had broke for lunch. Several had gone outside to smoke or talk on their phones. A few had gone out for food. Of the instructors, Luke had stayed behind with the rookies. Luke rarely got personal calls at work, so when the girls from Human Resources told him he had a call, he figured it was something to do with work. He picked up on the closest extension, "This is Duke." He said in way of greeting since the person had already gotten the official greeting from the girl in Human Resources. Dixie thought that Luke sounded very official when at work, "Hey, I just got a call from BL. The others are meeting me over here if you want to take the long way home. We're gonna meet near here at Mel’s Diner." Luke was just a bit surprised to hear Dixie's voice on the other end of the line, but didn't let on, "Yeah, ok. I can do that. Do you know what's up?" "With the Hazzard phone system. All I got was that Bo, Cooter, Daisy and BL were all likely coming. Dixie explained. Luke nodded as if she could see him, then reached around and rubbed the tension in the back of his neck that he just realized was there. "I'll be there as soon as we get things closed up here." Dixie replied, "See ya then. I hope I caught you at lunch and not in the middle of class." "You did. Be careful over there, ok?" Luke said. Dixie smiled, it was nice to know someone worried about her just as long as they didn't get over protective. She knew that part of that meant keeping them all on the outside of her facility. "Remember it's you that jumps from perfectly good planes into forest fires." Luke replied, "That's the easy part. It's as easy as falling off a log, but we're not jumping for a few more weeks yet." —------------------------------- The Hazzard crew arrived at Mel’s Diner at 5 o’clock they had run into some road construction and had moved at a snail’s pace for about 10 miles. Upon entering they looked for an empty out of the way table, spotting one in the back corner. As soon as they were seated a waitress came to give them menus and take their drink order, “I’m Angie, I’ll be your waitress this evening, what can I get ya’ll to drink?” Daisy said “I’ll have a sweet tea”. “Make that 2 sweet teas. We have 2 more coming as soon as they get off work,” BL said. Cooter and Bo both wanted a root beer. Angie checked to make sure she had the order right and then went to get the drinks. Dixie, who worked nearby, had gotten busy the last part of her shift. She arrived just as the drinks arrived. "I'll have a sweet tea with half lemonade please." She saw Luke pull in. "He looks hot. Make that 2 half and half teas." The waitress agreed with Dixie, "Yes he does look very hot." As Luke walked up to the table everyone was laughing at the young girl's comment about Luke. "What's so funny?" Luke asked. “You have an admirer,” Daisy said. The young girl brought Dixie and Luke their half and half teas and menus for everyone. “If you need anything just give me a holler,” the young waitress looked right at Luke as she spoke, setting the table off in another round of laughing. “She can’t be more’n 15, just a kid,” Luke said. "So why are we all here?" Luke asked. —------------------------- Bo pulled out a list of names, addresses and phone numbers that they had added to several of the names. Luke looked closer at the list,"Bo, what am I looking at?" Dixie had leaned in closer to see the list Luke was holding. “That is a list of people, their addresses and phone numbers that sent $100 to PO Box 100 thinking they were going to get a certificate for a deed on land and one of them tiny houses,” Bo said. “Now we just got to contact them,set up meetings to show them pictures you took and get them to come to court Thursday. Only problem is, we only have tomorrow to meet with them.” BL said. Luke looked around for a pay phone, and being the closest thing the county had to being a truck stop, it had four payphones and a counter nearby. One phone had an out of service sticker on it. " "Well, ladies, I'll get the quarters. On second thought, here Cooter." Luke handed Cooter some money. "Go get some quarters and us another round of drinks. I'll keep up with the list while you girls make some calls." —------------------------------ Bo asked, "What should I do?" Luke replied automatically, "Just look pretty Bo." Cooter took the money from Luke and walked toward the counter where Angie was at the register “Leaving already?,” Angie asked, a little disappointed she wasn’t getting to sell the group a burger or maybe the day’s plate special. “No ma’am I need quarters for the payphones and refills for the table,” Cooter said. Angie took the money and gave Cooter two rolls of quarters, “I’ll bring the drinks in a moment,” Angie said. Cooter took the quarters back to Luke. Angie brought the drinks a couple minutes, asking “can I get ya’ll anything else, menus?” Daisy, Dixie and BL started dialing the phones. Cooter shrugged at Angie's question. Cooter decided that they would know more in a bit. " "We'll let you know in a few minutes." By the time the girls were done on the phones they had five people willing to meet them to talk. It would take them a bit to get there so the group decided to order. —---------------------------- “What can I get ya’ll?” Angie asked. “Burgers and fries ok?” BL asked, wanting to get on the road. Six different orders would take up extra time. Everyone agreed, discussing their day while they ate. Finished and ready to leave Luke put $5 under his plate for a tip. “I got to go to the bathroom before I go anywhere, all that half and half tea is going straight through me” Dixie said. “I need to go too.” BL said. “Me too,” Daisy said, the three of them going to the ladies restroom. The group then headed out for their meeting, the meeting was in the rich part of town, no wonder they’d bought what they thought were luxury vacation homes, they could afford them. “This must be it,” BL said when Bo parked General Lee in front of an office building. One of the 5 who had agreed to meet, was the company president, had offered the use of the building’s conference room. When everyone laid everything out, things were making sense. All five were neighbors, who had passed the information from one to the other. Everyone there wanted to make sure that BL was clear and that Boss got his 'comeuppance'. Everyone was available and could be in Hazzard for court except the company president who typed up a letter for BL to take to the Judge. With everything settled the group headed back to Hazzard. —----------------------------- Back in Hazzard everyone went to Miz Tisdale’s. As usual Gloria Cravitz was watching out her window and saw General Lee and Luke’s truck arrive at the same time as Dixie,Bo had let BL off at the post office to get her car, so she could pick up Sadie at the Duke farm. “Abner them Duke boys are back over at Miz Tisdale’s but only one of them Davenport girls,” Gloria said. “I’m sure the other one will be along,” Abner said, never looking up from his newspaper. A couple minutes later Daisy's roadrunner and Cooter’s truck pulled up in front of the house “Abner, Abner 2 more vehicles just pulled up” Gloria was about to get a vapor lock, when she saw Daisy and Cooter. “That’s nice dear,” Abner was only halfway paying attention to his wife’s hysterics. BL was just returning with Sadie as Cooter was heading to his truck,“wrecker call?” BL asked. “Nah, just going to get us some beer,” Cooter said, getting in his truck. —---------------------------- Inside, BL dropped onto the couch beside Bo,laying her head on his shoulder, his arm around her holding her close, “I’ll be glad when Thursday comes and goes, so I can put this mail fraud mess behind me,” BL said. Bo, Luke Dixie and Daisy nodded. Cooter came in saying “honey I’m home”, he was carrying 4 plastic grocery bags,each with a 6 pack of bottled beer. “Had to go over to Rheubottom’s, we were out at the garage,” Cooter said. Luke was sitting on the loveseat with Dixie. He reached for a beer. "This is nice. No Ernie." Dixie replied, "No Dad." “No Rosco harassing ya’ll” Daisy addeed. “Not unless Mrs. Cravitz calls him again,” BL said. Dixie got up, "Anyone need a refill when I come back?" She asked before heading to the bathroom. Cooter and Bo both said they did. Luke got up, "I got ya." He said picking up the empties. Luke came back with refills and Dixie was still in the bathroom. Several minutes later, Dixie returned, kicked off her shoes and curled back up beside Luke as she picked up her second beer. “Anybody want another?” Bo asked getting up after a while. “No thanks I got to work tomorrow,” Dixie said. “Me too,” BL said. “No more for me either, I swapped shifts with Betsy Ann and have to work the breakfast shift,” Daisy said. Luke and Cooter took him up on the offer. Gathering the empties, Bo went to the kitchen, bringing back another beer for Luke and Cooter, sitting on the couch beside BL, putting his arm around her shoulders, holding her close. Cooter asked Bo, "So are ya'll going to run the race next month over in Placid?" Bo grinned, "I,..." He stressed, "want to." He was looking dead at Luke as he spoke. Luke gave him a look, "Now, Bo, we've talked about this. I don't care one bit to help get General Lee ready to show this young bunch of know it alls, just how fast the Ole boy still is. It is just I can't promise I'll be here to be the crew chief." Bo said glumly. "I know Luke but you've sorta gotten me spoiled. But, I would sure like to put the General on the track with those young punks." Luke asked, "Cooter, are you planning on running anything?" "Naw, I hadn't really put anything together. There hasn't been any competition where you guys haven't been on the track." Luke looked at Bo, they both looked at Cooter. "What?" They both with the girls, said, "You could be the crew chief if Luke ain't here." ”I could?” “Yeah, Bo couldn’t get a better crew chief, you’d know if there was a problem right off,” Luke said. Cooter thought for a minute “Bo you got yourself a crew chief, even if Luke can’t be there,” Bo let loose a rebel yell, "YEHAA". Balladeer:Atleast that's what folks in these parts call it. —--------------------------- Sometime later Daisy yawned “is it ok if I stay the night? I don’t think I can hold my eyes open to drive home.” Daisy asked. “Sure, I only got 2 beds so you’ll have to share with me or Dixie,” BL said. Mrs. Cravitz was still glued to the window, "Abner! All those kids are still over there! It's a weeknight. There are three couples over there. It just ain't right. It's nearly eleven o'clock." "That's nice, Dear." He said. He had put cotton in his ears hours ago when he turned the TV to his ballgame. Dixie got up from her place beside Luke and went to the bathroom again. Then came back from the kitchen with a large glass of water. "I think I'm getting a kidney infection or something. You'd think I drank a case of beer, not two." Luke said, "More like three, but who's counting." Dixie had been snitching drinks of his beer occasionally since declining another beer earlier. The guys talked awhile longer, Dixie was curled up next to Luke listening. Luke looked at the clock noticing it was getting late, him, Dixie, Cooter and BL had to work tomorrow. “Bo you still got your sleeping bag in General Lee,”Luke asked. “We best be getting settled, it’s getting late and some of us have to work tomorrow,” Luke said. Standing the two of them went out to their vehicles “Abner looks like two of them are finally leaving. About time too, it's nearly midnight.” Mrs. Cravitz reported from her post. Luke got his bag of spare clothes out of his truck, so he could shower before work. He got a couple blankets too. Still at the window Mrs. Cravitz was about to have a fit, seeing them go back into the house. But seeing the lights go out really got her goat. —----------------------- Inside BL was still curled up on the couch as Luke came back inside. Luke looked at how the furniture was arranged. "Alright guys. If we can get these ladies to move, we can move this over here, that over there and put the sleeping bags here so we aren't sleeping on the furniture and breaking it down." Dixie looked at her seat on the love seat. "What's wrong with us just cuddling back up the way we were?" Luke said, " I don't know about furniture and stuff but I've heard it all my life that sleeping on couches breaks them down. This is good furniture that Miz Tisdale nor BL need or want messed up." Dixie sighed but got up so the guys could rearrange the furniture. "OK, I can still camp out with ya'll down here." Luke shook his head, " This ain't the first time we've slept under the same roof. It won't be the last. Go to bed, sleep and get some rest for work." Mrs. Cravitz grabbed her sweater. "Where are you going?" Abner asked. "To get the cat." She replied. "We don't have a cat." He said to the closing door. She went out to her porch, the lights were all out on this side of the house. Walking up the sidewalk, there were no lights on in the front of the house. She crept down by the side of the house. No lights. She even crossed the back yards and came in her back door. "Abner there ain't a light on in that house over there. Abner. Abner? Abner!" She found her husband already asleep with cotton balls in his ears. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The next morning BL woke with a pounding headache and the morning sun full on her face. “Sh@#!” BL swore. “What’s the matter darlin?” Bo yawned. BL was reaching for her clothes, what she could reach and keep her modesty anyway, “I’m going to be late, it’s my first day completely solo. Miz Tisdale left for her sister’s, yesterday.” BL said. “Relax, me and the General will get you there on time”, Bo said,pulling on his boxers. “Could you just drop me off at Dixie’s, I need my car to deliver the mail.” BL said. “Dixie, can I grab a shower and borrow some clothes, instead of wasting time going home,getting ready then going to the post office.” BL asked. Dixie was in a good mood, even though her night alone with Luke hadn't gone as planned, “sure just go on into my room and help yourself. You know where the spare key is, right?” Dixie replied. —---------------------------- Luther Davenport was a pretty early riser even though his farm wasn't really a working farm. He came downstairs, put on coffee to make and from years of habit looked out of the kitchen window to see the wrecker, Cooters truck and both the girls' cars. Luther was peaceful and content. He was glad the three kids had been so quiet last night when they came in. He poured his coffee and took his normal seat at the table trying to figure out what he was going to fix for breakfast after he'd had his first cup of coffee. ”Just drop me off at the end of the drive and I’ll walk to the house from there”, BL said as Bo was taking her to Dixie’s to get her car. “I can take you on up to the house darlin, no problem I got plenty of time”, Bo said. “I don’t know if Luther or Cooter one, might be home. I got a better chance not being seen, at least till I’m in the house if they don’t hear the General.” BL smiled, leaned over kissing Bo’s cheek. A few minutes later, Bo pulled over, halfway down the drive, reasoning BL could get to the house and out undetected maybe, if she didn’t have as far to walk. One last kiss and BL slid out of the General, heading for the Davenport farmhouse. Luther by now had fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, and now had a skillet full of eggs frying for scrambled eggs. He'd been in his house without his wife for years now and still no matter how he tried to make eggs they came out scrambled. He was in a far better mood this morning than he was waking up in the Hazzard jail yesterday morning. He looked at the ceiling. The house was still pretty quiet for a Monday morning. He was sure the smell of coffee and eggs would have gotten the kids attention by now. Then he heard the faint sound of the front door knob. Luther stepped to see through the house to see BL cross the room and start up the stairs. "BL?" Balladeer:"It was 2 letters, but there were way more questions behind them. —------------------------- BL swore under her breath, before turning around to face her uncle,”yeah?” “What are you sneaking around for?” Luther was looking for any signs he was being lied to. “Thought you might not be up just yet,didn’t want to bother you on my way to the bathroom,” BL tried to keep a neutral expression, at least she wasn’t telling a big fib, she was going upstairs to the bathroom. “Do I smell eggs and coffee?”,BL hoped to ward off anymore questions she didn’t want to answer, by asking a question of her own. Luther ignored the breakfast menu question and asked, "If you are on your way to the bathroom, just where might you be coming from?” BL felt her head start pounding harder, this morning just kept getting worse, “Hounddog lake”, BL said quietly, eyes on her boots. She would have given a nearby location between mail drop offs but Luther would know she wasn’t delivering mail this early. "Hounddog lake?" Luther must not have been good and awake yet without his second cup of coffee because BLs answers weren't fitting together in his mind. "Your car has been here for two days. So how did you get here from the lake?" BL took a deep breath,blowing it out slowly. Clyde would probably hear about this before she got halfway down the drive, “Bo dropped me off down the drive and I walked to the house,” BL said. "Bo? Bo Duke? Dropped you off coming from Hounddog lake?" Luther didn't need to ask anymore questions as he brushed by BL taking the steps two at a time. His boots thundered up the steps, he flung Dixie's bedroom door open to see the beds made and the sewing stuff still in disarray. He was back down the stairs again two at a time. Out the front door he went slamming the door so hard the glass in it rattled. BL had frozen on the stairs when Luther went by her twice. Hearing the bang of the front door then the wrecker started up Cooter had nearly fallen out of bed. He got his feet under him, stepped in his pants and started downstairs carrying his boots and shirt. Seeing BL, he said, "What was that?" BL managed, "Tornado Luther." —-------------------------- “We got to get to Dixie first”, BL said, “Why?”,Cooter looked confused, Luther was mad about something but he'd never hurt Dixie. BL was acting like he might, BL gave Cooter the short version. “Shoot fire and save box matches!”, Cooter said, shirttails flapping on his open shirt as he ran out the door. BL hurried to the CB home base in the kitchen, showering and getting ready for work, forgotten “Little Shotgun, Lost Sheep 1, ya’ll got your ears on? There’s a tornado headed your way.” BL hoped the home base was working and that Dixie was listening and had caught on that Luther was headed that way. —-------------------------- Luke watched Bo pull out, "So what are you wanting to do today." "Stay right here." Dixie said snuggling in nothing but Luke's blanket. Luke was a bit more practical, "Instead of me building the fire back up for coffee and hoping to catch a fish for breakfast, how about you take a few minutes to pull yourself together, I'll toss this stuff in the truck and make sure the fire is out. I'll take you out for breakfast and we can go print out those pictures for BL. I think it's about time you meet my crew." It wasn't what Dixie wanted to do but she agreed as she picked up her clothes. A bit later, Luke's truck was headed out of the county heading toward Chickamahoney. —------------------ Luther slowed the wrecker just enough he didn’t miss Luke’s truck, there was no sign of the F250. There were tracks up ahead going toward Chickamahoney, Luther couldn’t be positive they didn’t take one of the side roads though so he followed the tracks until the forks of the road. The left fork dead ended apiece up the road, the rlght led straight to Chickamahoney and the tracks lead that way. Letting loose a string of curses, Luther banged his hand on the wrecker’s steering wheel, making a U-turn,he headed for the garage. —------------------ Back at the Davenport farm, BL had given up trying to reach Dixie from the house CB base and had gone upstairs for a quick shower and to get ready for work. Picking up the CB mic in her car, BL tried to reach Dixie and Luke on her way into town, “Little Shotgun this is Sweettalker and boy do we need to talk”. All BL got in response was the crackle of static. A few more tries got the same results, “they must be out of range, dangit!”, BL muttered to herself, hanging up the mic. Seeing the mail truck turn the corner, BL parked out front of the post office, hurting to unlock the door she’d park in back later. Bo went to the farm and did the morning chores then went to town to check the mail. Luther parked the wrecker, flung open the bay doors and tossed the open sign in the window as he stomped with every step. Cooter pulled in exactly five minutes late since he had waited for BL to get out of the bathroom. He saw Luther stomping around inside the garage and knew it was going to be a day. Luke pulled over near base camp at Denny's so they could grab a good breakfast. He and Dixie both got a large coffee to go as they headed to base camp. Once there, Luke took out the camera and he and Dixie went inside for her to meet his crew. Dixie couldn't help being just a bit surprised to find that two of Luke's immediate crew were females. One of which he had handed the camera off to so that she could pull the pictures off and print them for him. “This is my girlfriend Dixie Davenport,” Luke said, introducing Dixie to the group. —------------------------------. BL had just finished sorting the mail when Bo came in, “how’s it going darlin?” Bo asked. BL didn’t even bother with Miz Tisdale’s old regulations “just dandy Bo..Luther caught me sneaking in,proceeded to ask questions and I didn’t want to tell lies, he stormed out, ready to kill. I tried to warn Dixie and Luke, he was headed their way but couldn’t get anything but static,” Bo gave her an I’m sorry look. “Now I’m going to pick up Sadie and deliver mail and I will probably see my own Dad but I can’t deal with him till after work.” BL blew out a long breath. “Speaking of mail, got any for me and might as well get the farm’s while I’m here,” Bo asked. BL handed him a small stack “that’s for the farm”, “and this is yours”, BL handed over a mail bag a little bit less than half the size of a regular mail bag. Bo asked, "Ain't that a lot of mail for just me? Are you sure it's all mine?" BL shrugged, "It's all for your box." —----------------------- Cooter had no idea that the girls had been out all night, so he assumed Luther was mad at him for being late, "Look Dad. I was only five minutes late. I'll stay over this evening and close up." Luther stomped some more, "You mean you aren't going to the wedding?" "Wait. What? What wedding is that?" Cooter asked. He hadn't heard anything about a wedding, besides who gets married on a Monday. Luther replied, "BL said Dixie was at hounddog lake with Luke Duke. I got there. Seen where they had been parked. I followed those 6 ply tires Luke runs to the cut off to Chickamahoney. Any other reason you'd figure those two might be heading that way?" Something didn't seem right with his Dad's assumption, but Cooter couldn't come up with any other reason. "Nah, but that just don't seem right either.” Cooter kept trying to come up with another reason, any reason at all besides eloping, Dixie and Luke would go to Chickamahoney but getting nowhere he called to Luther “I’m going to get the mail,Dad”. If anyone knew what his sister was upto, it’d be his cousin the girls were as thick as thieves. “Alright, what do you know?”,Cooter demanded. “Know about what Cooter?”, BL said. “Dixie and Luke running off to Chickamahoney to get married.” Cooter said. “What…get married? Dixie ain’t said nothing to me about getting married”, BL had no clue about any wedding and she was almost positive Dixie would have asked her to be maid of honor and Luke would have asked Bo to be his best man. “Luke didn’t say nothing to me neither”,Bo said. —----------------------------- Daisy popped in to mail a letter, "Luke didn't say anything to you about what?" Replying as if it was buying a stamp, Bo replied, "About eloping." Daisy squealed, "Oh my Goodness! REALLY?! Luke elpoed?!!" “Looks that way, Dixie didn’t tell me either,” BL said. “I got to order a cake, what kind do you think they'll want?” Daisy was turning toward the door, when BL grabbed her arm. “Hold up just a minute Daisy, there’s a reason they kept it quiet, if we go giving them a party before they tell us,even if it’s just family they might not be so happy about it”, BL said. “I guess so”, Daisy said, more subdued. —----------------------------- BL looked at Bo, "Can you find them?" Bo looked from Daisy to BL, "I should be able to." That was good enough for BL. She was already making a sign for the window. 'Closed for family emergency. Mail will be delivered this afternoon.' "Let's go Bo. Come Sadie." Daisy said, "I'm going too." Cooter added, "Count me in. I'm not dealing with Luther today." They all headed to General Lee with two separate conversations going. No one noticed Mrs. Sims, the town busybody as they walked by, heard the distinct phrase 'Nice day for Dixie and Luke to elope.'] If the search party had been paying attention to who they met, one of them would have stayed in town to do damage control. Mrs. Sims was about to burst by the time she reached the beauty parlor, the best place in a small town, to hear the town gossip “guess what I just heard?” not waiting for a response from anyone she said “Luke Duke and Dixie Davenport eloped.” There was a flurry of talk, most everyone remembered the past and the rumors back then. —----------------------- Mrs. Sims continued, "Then Bo and Daisy Duke, BL and Cooter all took off heading out of town and they were heading toward Chickamahoney. Lulu Hogg was just coming out from under the dryer. Being the Hazzard Commissioner's wife, she refrained from being part of the general gossip. She went right home and promptly placed a call to Jesse Duke. —------------------------- Jesse just happened to have been in the house when the phone rang, "Duke Farm." “Hello Jesse, this is Lulu Hogg. I just heard that congratulations was in order”, Lulu said. “Congratulations? What for?”,Jesse asked. “Luke getting married.” “Luke WHAT?!” “Lydia Sims passed Daisy, Bo and Cooter and BL Davenport on her way to the beauty parlor, she said they were talking about Luke and Dixie Davenport eloping, one of them was saying it was a nice day for Luke and Dixie to elope.” “Well thank you for calling Lulu, I’ll give Luke your message. I gotta go now, bye”, Jesse hung up the phone. Jesse grabbed his red cap, headed out the back door at a trot, "Move Maudine I got to go see what that mule headed youngin is up to." He said as he passed the mule. Once in the pickup Jesse grabbed the CB as he pulled out of the yard, "This is Shepherd. Come in Lost Sheep One." Nothing. "Lost Sheep Two, this is Shepherd." Nothing. Jesse mumbled to himself as he made one more call, "Shepherd to Bo Peep." Nothing, that told Jesse a lot. He was behind. If they were heading to Chickamahoney he wouldn't be able to reach any of them until he got to the county line past Iron Mountain. —------------------------ Clyde Davenport had no idea what was going on, all he knew was BL hadn’t been home since friday and had called saturday night to say she was staying the night at the Duke farm with Daisy. Pulling upto the post office in his pickup, he read the sign in the window, saying there was a family emergency but he hadn’t been notified. Going over to the garage, seeing Luther at the pumps baffled him even more, parking he got out of the truck “What’s going on Luther?”Clyde asked. “Nothing,why” Luther asked, he sensed Clyde hadn’t asked, by way of greeting. “BL has a sign in the post office window says closed due to a family emergency,” Clyde said. “Well, what in Sam Hill is Cooter doing, he went to get the mail” Luther grumbled, now that he thought about it Cooter had been gone a while. Pete Sims was bringing his wife’s car in for a tuneup, getting out of the car greeting the Davenport brothers “howdy fellas, Lydia told me you are getting yourself a son-in-law. Luther.” Pete said. “Said, your girl eloped with Luke Duke”, Pete kept talking, not paying attention that Luther practically had steam coming out his ears.” Said she saw Daisy and Bo Duke and Cooter getting in General Lee.” “Said your BL was with them.” Pete said to Clyde. “Lydia needs some things from Ruehbottom’s, I’ll be back in a little while” Pete wandered off to do his shopping. “Looks like I might not be the only one getting myself a Duke son-in-law,” Luther said, opening the hood of Pete’s car, while Clyde was processing it all and that his little girl was with Bo Duke in or near Chickamahoney right this very minute. —--------------------- Charlie had just unlocked the front door of the Boar’s Nest to get set up and open. They were never busy this time of day but if someone happened in Charlie would wait on them while he got ready for the evening crowd. He was surprised to hear the door open when Lulu Hogg came in. Lulu’s arms were full of streamers, balloons, paper decorations of all sorts. She came in and set the stuff down on one of the tables. "There is a box in my car Charlie. Will you get it please." Charlie looked in the box and saw it had Christmas lights and such in it, "What's all this stuff for Ms. Lulu? It's too early for Christmas." "I just think this place needs a bit of cheer and decorations." Lulu said. Charlie wasn't at all sure how Boss Hogg was gonna like this remodel but she was his boss's wife so he'd do as he was asked. —----------------------------- At base camp, Luke and the rest of the crew gave Dixie the grand tour and explained some of the equipment to her. Luke's team members had his pictures printed out and in a folder for him when they came back in, "Duke why are you taking pictures of dollhouses?" Lisa ribbed. He gave her a look and corrected her, "Those are luxury vacation homes." "For Ken and Barbie maybe." Lisa joked. "Speaking of pictures. We should likely get these back." Luke said as he picked up a copy of the new schedule. They said their goodbyes and Dixie was invited back to watch some jumps. —---------------------- In Chickamahoney, Bo parked the General Lee in the center of town, "Anyone know where to start?" Daisy, Cooter and BL looked at each other, then at Bo three sets of shoulders shrugging. “The hotel, if it was somebody other than Dixie and Luke, Dixie ain’t gonna want to stay someplace Luther can find them easy” BL said. Cooter knew his sister and was nodding ‘yes’. Cooter said, "You are ahead of yourself cousin, before a hotel they would need a license." Daisy added, "Then a preacher." Bo looked the town up and down seeing the various signs and such for different types of wedding packages. "They could be or have been to any these places." Bo said. Cooter added, "Wait. No, let's circle town and look for Luke's truck." —---------------------- Back in Hazzard Luther filled Clyde in on the early morning visit from BL and where their wayward daughters had been all night. The search party drove around town at a snail pace, eyes peeled looking for Luke’s pickup but were coming up empty, “no sign of them nowhere” Cooter stated what the others were thinking too. Daisy and BL went to the Courthouse to see if there had been a marriage license issued. “Well that didn’t help much”, BL said once she and Daisy exited the courthouse. Three marriage licenses had been issued that morning but the filing deadline was 24 hours. ”Now what?” Cooter said. Just as they were heading out of town they saw Uncle Jesse coming toward them into town. Bo stopped in the middle of the road as Jesse also stopped alongside him. "What in tarnation is going on? Where is Luke?" “I don’t know where Luke is, Uncle Jesse. We can’t find him or Dixie either” Bo said. "Did Luke or Dixie say anything to any of yall?" Uncle Jesse asked. He was met with four young people looking at each other, then shaking their heads ‘no’. "Then, why are we all out here?" Jesse asked. The others looked to Cooter and said together. "Cooter said..." Cooter cut them off, "We'll Dad told me after he stormed into the garage." “Told you what?” Jesse asked. “They eloped, Uncle Jesse” Cooter answered. “I ain’t your Uncle Jesse” Jesse fussed. —----------------------------- Back at the Boar's Nest the place was decorated to the hilt. It looked like a cross between a high school prom and a bridal shower. At the garage Luther had hurt himself while trying to get work done for the last time, "Clyde I'm calling it a day. Let's go get a beer." Clyde responded, "As long as it is not a repeat of the other night."Luther gave his brother a look. "You got it." —---------------------------- In Chickamahoney, Jesse asked, "But You can't find them or any record they got hitched?" "No." Replied Daisy, just a bit disappointed. "We'll there ain't no sense hanging out here. Let's get back to the Boar's Nest and see if anyone has seen them two." Jesse wisely said. Everyone got turned around and headed for Hazzard. Balladeer: "Now look here. There is Luke and Dixie. Theys a few miles back behind the search party. —---------------------------- Luther and Clyde got out of Clyde’s pickup,heading inside the Boar’s Nest. Luther nearly swallowed his tongue when they walked in and saw a big banner CONGRATULATION’S LUKE AND DIXIE stretched across the room. “Bo will you drop me off at the post office please? I want to get my car, so I can deliver the mail. I’ll follow ya’ll to the Boar’s Nest and then leave there to get the mail and deliver it in a bit,”BL said “Sure darlin” Bo said, pulling around back, sliding out the driver’s window. Then he lifted Sadie, settling her “stay” Bo helped BL out, giving her a peck on the lips. “Load up”, BL told Sadie, opening the car door. Within minutes the General Lee and GTO were pulling into the Boar’s Nest lot. Luke and Dixie were having a very pleasant ride back to Hazzard talking about everything and nothing at all. When Luke turned the curve and the Boar’s Nest came into view they couldn't help but notice the crowd for so early in the afternoon. Luke said, "Something must be up for everyone to be here this early. Even Uncle Jesse's here. We better stop." "Right. I hope everything's alright with BL." Dixie said. "Grab that folder with the pictures in case we need them." Luke said as he was parking the truck. Inside, everyone was taking in all the decorations. “Here they come”, Thelma Claire hollered above the noise. Luke and Dixie walked in, seeing the congratulations sign hanging across the room “Congratulations, for what?”Luke asked. “On your nuptials, of course,” Lulu explained. —------------------------- “Nuptials, Miss Lulu, where did you hear that?” Dixie asked. “That’s what Lydia Sims said when she came in the beauty parlor this morning. Said she met Bo, Daisy, and Cooter and they were talking about you and Luke eloping” Lulu explained. “We got some pictures printed at base camp, I wanted Dixie to meet my crew. Show them, Dix”Luke said. Dixie lay the folder on the front table. Bo and BL had moved closer to the door before hearing themselves named as part of the reason for all the decorations and fan fair. Daisy and Cooter weren't far behind them. Jesse, as well as Luther and Clyde had also moved a bit closer to hear the missing couple's explanation. Jesse spoke up, "So ya'll didn't run off and get hitched?" Dixie had the good graces to blush crimson which she had not done in years Luke was still a bit shocked as well as a lot confused at how they all had come up with this conclusion. Luke replied, "No. How? No, why? Did ya’ll think that." BL looked at Bo, who looked at Daisy, then they all looked at Cooter who turned to Luther and said,"Dad?" Luther heard the question but for now he wanted to make sure he heard Luke, "Ya'll didn't go to Chickamahoney and get married?" Now things were becoming a bit clearer to Luke as he smiled just a bit, "We went TOWARD Chickamahoney, took the bypass around town and went south to our base camp." Luke thought he was seeing the fire in Luther's eyes lowering a bit but figured for good measure he had better add, "No, we didn't get married." “Beers for everybody, their on Boss” Bo announced to the bar of people, everyone chuckled. Bo, BL, Cooter and Daisy were all glad that Dixie and Luke hadn’t left them out of wedding plans afterall. When everyone was served and occupied with their drinks Luke leaned closer to the group, voice low ”these pictures are what Boss Hogg is upto. I’ll show you when there ain’t so many people around.” —----------------------------- Daisy set Luke and Dixie another beer down beaming, "I just KNEW y'all wouldn’t run off and get married without at least telling some of us." BL added, "Yeah. I thought we were closer than that." Dixie replied, "We are, but I can keep a secret pretty well." Bo and Cooter were having much the same conversation with Luke who replied, "Look, when we do y'all will be the second (after himself) to know, alright." “I hate to run out ya’ll but I was ‘busy’ this morning and didn’t deliver the mail, BL gave Dixie and Luke a look, so I have to now, then still have outgoing mail to Central city by 3” BL said. Dixie asked, "What were you busy doing that was more important than the mail getting out?” “Playing hide and seek”, BL said sarcastically but grinned, so Dixie would know she wasn’t really mad. Bo added, "Do ya’ll have any idea how many places there are to get married in Chickamahoney?" Dixie asked with a slight grin, "Y'all really went over there looking for us?" Cooter answered Bo then Dixie, "A lot and yes!" Daisy added, "Even Uncle Jesse came behind us." Luke looked up at the senior Duke who gave him an assured look that had a 'we will talk about this at home's meaning. “How about we meet at still sight #4, at 4 o’clock after you get back from Central City, BL? Ya’ll can take a look see at these here pictures,” Luke said. “Sounds good, see you then” BL said. “You are coming home” Clyde said, his tone was a question but his look said it was a command, “Be home by 6 o’clock” BL said, then dashed out the door to deliver mail. —----------------------- At 10 minutes after 4 o'clock, BL pulled up behind General Lee, “Sorry I’m a little late, they were doing road construction on county 103” BL said. Bo said, "They are always working on 103." Luke layed out the pictures. "Here's these luxury homes. Look at this one. It's in the ad and compares the size to that truck pictured with it." Dixie said, "They would make really cute playhouses for kids.” “Who'd want to live in a crackerjack box? Be about the same as a car with the doors welded shut, to me” Jesse said. BL looked at the pictures, Dixie was right they would make cute playhouses. Expensive too she bet. Luke said, "So I've been thinking. Maybe we should contact those folks who got Bo's pictures and have them come to court and tell that this isn't what they thought they were paying for. I think some may be happier with Bo’s pictures. “How, there ain’t enough time to write them all and wait for replies back or just hope they show for court. We can’t call them, we ain’t got phone numbers” BL said dejectedly. “We call information with the names and addresses, get the phone numbers from there” Dixie said. “After hearing how these people were scammed, the Judge will drop the charges, I just know he will” Daisy said with all the confidence she could muster into her voice. —----------------------------- After everyone figured what to do with the pictures they took, everyone decided to go back to the Boar’s Nest for a while. Dixie leaned over for only Luke to hear, "Can you believe they done all this for us just because they thought we went to Chickamahoney." Luke smiled and said as a slow dance came on, "Seems ashamed to not enjoy it. Come on." They danced to the song then Dixie headed back to the table as Luke went to the bar to get them a beer. The place was unusually busy for a Monday night. While Luke waited for Charlie or Daisy to get to him he felt a tap on his shoulder. Luther was standing behind him. "Can we walk outside for a minute?" Luke replied, "Sure." Bo looked up in time to see Luther and Luke heading outside, but he wasn't the only one who saw it. Jesse Duke was already heading out behind them. —-------------------------- Luther went around the side of the Boar’s Nest that the kitchen was on, so noone could see or interrupt. Luke followed his guard up but he’d still be respectful as long as Luther stayed civil. “There’s something I been meaning to talk to you about,”Luther said, pausing this wasn’t easy. Luke waited while the senior Davenport figured out what he wanted to say. Clearing his throat, Luther continued “I need you to help out driving the wrecker, at least part time.” Luther held out his hand for a handshake. Luke wasn’t sure he was hearing right. After all the trouble between them, Luther was asking him to drive the wrecker for him again. Giving Luther’s hand a firm shake Luke said “I’d be glad to Luther. One more thing, I had one too many drinks the other night,“ Luther said. Luke nodded, accepting the unspoken apology. Seeing the handshake between the two made Jesse feel better. Luke said, "Luther, I ain't never set out to make trouble for any of our families. I have always liked driving for you and only stopped because you fired me." Luke saw the man start to object and held up his hand in hopes of finishing his thoughts, "As for today, we went to my base camp and spent most of the day. Yes, it was in the general direction of Chickamahoney, but we was nowhere near there." “I’ve watched how you’ve been with other girls, so I hope you don’t take offense but what are your intentions with my daughter?”,Luther asked. Luke did his best not to take offense, Luther was perfectly justified in asking, Luke’s track record wasn’t the best “I am not going to drop Dixie, like a sack of potatoes, I swear. If we do decide to get married at some point, I promise we ain’t going to elope” Luke said. Even though Luther had been thinking long and hard since spending the night in jail, he wasn't really ready to let everything just go and give his blessings for the Duke to date his daughter. "So why was BL sneaking into my house in the wee hours and telling me that Dixie was at the lake?" Luke was caught slightly off guard, Luther hadn’t let on that he knew anything. Luke thought about the best way to answer the question at hand without incriminating anyone. "I can't answer for BL, but Dixie and I were out by the lake yesterday evening. We were talking, it got late. I broke out my gear and we stayed by the lake until we went to base camp this morning." Luther wasn’t sure he completely bought Luke’s story but it was a reasonable enough reason, he guessed. Jesse was still listening and although Luther was accepting Luke’s story, Jesse was still going to have a talk with Luke at home. Bo was itching to know what was going on with Luke and Luther but he was staying inside, Uncle Jesse could handle any problems he needed to. "So are you intent on marrying my girl?" Luther asked. There it was. On the table for all to see. Well at least for all they knew, Luther and Luke. —----------------------------- Luke rubbed the back of his neck, thinking hard before he answered, "Dixie deserves far better than me. I'm sure we can both agree on that." Luke stood up just a might taller before continuing, "But I have loved her enough since she was 15 to ask for your permission. Now I just need to know her heart and mind." Luther nodded, “that’s all I wanted to know, I just needed to know you weren’t yanking her chain. How about we go back inside, before they all think we’re out here killing each other?” Luther said. Jesse was quick getting out of sight, heading back inside before Luke or Luther saw him,shooing Bo, Dixie, as well as Cooter as he moved. —---------------------- Luke couldn't help still being a bit puzzled at Luther's line of questioning. Inside, Luther went to the bar to get a coffee,Luke went back to the table with the others, “Where’d you get to?” Dixie asked before Luke got set down good. “Luther had some things he wanted to discuss, so we went outside where it was quieter,” Luke said. "Oh, Good. That bad?" Dixie asked. Luke gave her his award winning smile, "It could have been worse." He took a drink of beer and said, "Are you ready to get married any time soon?" Dixie looked at Luke like he had three heads, "What? No! Are you?" Luke took a drink of beer and replied, "Not really." Luke had gotten everybody at the table’s full attention with his question. Bo choked on the drink of beer he just took. BL patted Bo’s back while looking at Luke, Dixie voicing her thoughts, “HAVE you lost your mind?” Cooter looked as stunned as the rest. —------------------- Luke continued to smile, largely at Bo's reaction as he talked to Dixie, "I think our little trip to base camp rattled him. I can't believe that just because we left town in the general direction of Chickamahoney that everyone thought we had eloped. I did sort of have to promise IF we ever decide to get married, that we would not elope." Dixie played along with Luke and said, "Now, there went all my plans." Daisy had been close enough to hear the exchange, "Ya'll better not. I've been planning these guys' weddings almost as long as I have mine!" —---------------------- Around the small bar, there were several girls who really didn't like all that marriage talk around the Duke table since they weren't on the arm of either Duke. Some vowed to double their efforts of getting those Duke boys' attention. Luke pretty much figured Hazzard just needed something to talk about. Dixie too knew how Hazzard was, but by her assessment, Luke and her weren't even seeing each other exclusively. At least wise, they hadn't talked about it, but even way back when neither could tell anyone when they went from friends to dating. Their relationship seemed to have always been complicated. One thing she was sure of, there were several girls in this room who were not at all happy about her current location at Luke's table, by his side with his arm around her. BL could see some of the green eyes of jealousy around the room, they were shooting daggers at her and Dixie, mostly Dixie as she sat there, Luke’s arm around her shoulders. All the ‘kids’ were having a good time and after hearing Luther and Luke’s talk, Jesse was satisfied there would be no trouble so he said his goodbyes to some old buddies then went over to the ‘kids’ table. “I’m going to head home,got chores to do,” Jesse said. Much to Bo’s displeasure, Luke motioned to his half full mug of beer, "We'll finish up here and be behind you." Dixie added, "Yeah, I have uniforms to wash for tomorrow." Luke gave her a look. "We'll, I do." Dixie said and then asked, "Are you ever going to get used to me wearing a uniform?" Luke said as he finished his beer and stood up, "Band uniform, softball uniform, ..." Dixie also stood up and playfully gave him the slightest knee strike to his thigh. "Keep it up. You know those tactics are based on Marine Corp. training, meaning ya'll got a taste of what we were trained in." When he put his arm around Dixie's waist his hand went a bit below her belt. BL grinned watching Dixie's and Luke's antics while she finished her beer, “I ain’t got uniforms to wash but I’m going to cook Daddy his favorite for supper, soften him up so he won’t give me so much grief about being gone all weekend,” BL said, standing up. “Whatcha cookin’ good lookin?.” Bo asked, flashing his lady killer grin. “Chicken ‘n’ dumplings with biscuits and peach cobbler for dessert,” BL said. —-------------------------- As Luke approached his pickup he was reminded that along with the farm's evening chores that he had another task of repacking all his gear before work tomorrow. Dixie climbed in the passenger seat then promptly slid over to the middle of the truck's seat. Luke wasn't planning to eat Bo's dust all the way to the Davenport farm so he pulled out while Bo and BL were saying their goodbyes. "What would you think of me driving for your Dad some when I'm off work?" Luke asked. "Wait a minute. I thought he swore you'd never drive for him again, years ago." Dixie stated. Bo brushed BL’s hair back from her face, leaning close to give her a long kiss, “See you tomorrow darlin”,Bo said. “See you tomorrow” BL got in her car, Bo shut the door giving Sadie a little scratch behind the ears, watching BL go out of sight. Bo got in the General and caught up to Luke as he was pulling in to let Dixie out. So Luke should pretty much be right behind him. Luke had noted that both Davenport men were still at the Boars Nest when they left. "Well, here you are." Luke said. Dixie nodded as she sat up, kicked her shoes off and turned around sideways in Luke's seat to face him. "Do you have any idea how much I don't want to go do laundry?" Luke nodded, "Probably as much as I want to go clean the barn." They weren't sure who moved closer first but several minutes later the windows of Luke's truck were steamed up even with the air conditioner running. Luke's hands were wandering. Dixie was gently rubbing Luke's neck, shoulders and chest. Luke knew he needed to get to the farm but moved his kisses to Dixie’s. She responded by doing the same then moved to blow in his ear. Since she was now on Luke's lap she suddenly felt Luke's jeans become much tighter. Luke let out a sound between growl and whimper as he was very torn between what he should do and what he wanted to do, "Dix, go get your laundry done, I'll come back or you come over." Bo got home, going straight for the barn. “Where’s Luke?”Jesse asked. “He was dropping Dixie off, should be right behind me,” Bo replied. —------------------------ Clyde Davenport thought he’d died and gone to heaven, when he opened the back door and was met by the aroma of chicken n dumplings, ”that smells great sweetheart”. BL straightened from checking the biscuits, “supper’ll be ready in about 15 minutes” BL said. Clyde asked casually “how was work today”? “Could have been better”, BL said. “Why’s that?” Clyde fished. “Because Cooter, me,Bo and Daisy spent half a day in Chickamahoney checking at every wedding venue there was, trying to find out if Dixie and Luke Duke had gotten married,” BL said. Clyde had opened the pot of chicken and dumplings, got a spoon and was ready for a taste as his daughter spoke. After nearly choking on the sip of broth he had taken in, he caught his breath, then squeaked out, "Why would any of you think THAT?" BL thought hard to come up with a truthful answer, without telling on herself, that she had stayed the night at hounddog lake with Bo and Dixie had been there with Luke still this morning when Bo took her to the Davenport farm but they were gone when Luther got there. Tire tracks headed toward Chicamahoney. No telling all that now would ruin a peaceful meal. “Cooter said he heard it, couldn’t get them on the CB so we did some tracking”, BL said. “Why didn’t you just call to see if Dixie was at work?” Clyde asked, it sounded like an easy solution to him. “They both had the day off,” BL said. —---------------------- Luke pulled into his usual spot and instead of heading to the barn and chores he headed to the bathroom and the shower, .... a cold one! Jesse saw Luke head to the house and found the shower on when he entered the farmhouse. He poured a cup of coffee and waited.... Almost an hour later Luke came down the hall socks in one hand, boots in the other. Sitting down putting his boots beside the chair, Luke waited for Uncle Jesse to say something, finally Jesse spoke, “When you get done, get yourself a cup of coffee and join me on the porch.” Getting up for more coffee, Jesse then headed out to the porch, —---------------------- Luke knew Jesse wasn't asking him to the porch for a social call. Socks on, boots on, shirt tucked in, cup of coffee in hand, Luke checked his tongue at the door. Luke hopped up on the banister in front of his uncle, "Yes, Sir?” Jesse Duke took a long drink of coffee, took in a deep breath and began, "Luke." He paused. "Now I know you are all grown. I know you, Bo and the Davenport girls were NOT home last night. Times might have changed, but I ain't. Now I know ya'll have run around with a number of girls since you've been 12, but you are living here. I won't have either of you putting those girls reputation into question." Luke tried to speak. Jesse held his hand up, "You'll have your turn. I'm not done. I can't believein’ the whole town thinking ya'll ran off to get married, but no, ya'll just spent the whole night out, then disappeared all day. And let me tell you, IF you two boys ever do decide to get hitched, which those chances rank right up there with hogs producing beef, but as long as I'm on this here Earth, I'd better be there to see it with my own eyes. All this here grey hair I got earned me that right to watch some poor unsuspecting girl take you to be hers and let me tell you, once she does, there ain't no returning you." Luke remained quiet,to make sure that Jesse had finished. Took a long drink of coffee and began, "I'm sorry Uncle Jesse." Luke rubbed the back of his neck and felt about twelve, "You know first and foremost, that you taught us right." He stopped the next thought that he was about to say about being careful. There was that ice water effect going down his back again. He did add, "Uncle Jesse, how are we supposed to find out if what was there before is still here today if everytime we are out together it leads to all sorts of chaos?" “I don’t rightly know, you’ll just know if ya’ll are meant to be together, even in all sorts of chaos those feelings will still be there” Jesse said. "All I know is if we are out of peoples sight someone comes looking for us. We were out by hounddog lake, went for a swim. No one was around so I built a fire. Got out some of my camping stuff to stay awhile, ..... and in pulled Bo and BL. At that point it was pretty late so we stayed." Jesse frowned, "I'll take that as the short version. Now, are ya'll talking about anything serious?" "Jesse, I've been around a lot of women but, .... there's something different about Dixie. I knew that years ago." Luke admitted. —------------------------------------ "Speaking of that, it's not gonna do either one of ya'll, both your jobs, or either of our families any good if ya'll get caught buck naked in the back of the General Lee by the State Police again. Those records are sealed, but there are still a few people around who remember ya'lls past." Jesse said calmly. Luke knew his Uncle was right. "I hear you loud and clear. I know you are right." Jesse asked, "Do I hear a 'but'?" It was times like these that part of Luke wished Jesse didn’t know him so well. "Yeah." Jesse waited. "She's not 15 anymore. She knows what she's doing and it's driving me nuts." Jesse chuckled a little “sounds like a woman. —--------------------- They looked up to see Bo coming out of the barn, meaning the evening chores were done. Luke shook his head and said to Bo, "I was coming out to help." Bo found that hard to believe, "Just get up extra early in the morning so you can do mine in the morning and we'll call it even." "Deal." Luke said remembering his earlier remark to Dixie about coming over and his exact reason he planned to see her again tonight. Then turned to Jesse, "I'm gonna run out for a bit then." Jesse held up his finger as a reminder of their conversation. Luke replied, already giving Bo his coffee cup and heading off the porch, "I know." Jesse shook his head at his oldest, "I think I'll try my good suit on later." Luke stopped dead and looked at Jesse, who was smiling with a bit of an evil twinkle in his eye, before getting in his pickup. Bo gave Jesse a questioning look,knowing that he had missed something between Luke and Jesse. —------------------------ Clyde decided he was going to have to confront BL about all that Luther had told him that morning, it was obvious she wasn’t going to confess. “Luther told me something interesting this morning”, Clyde said. “Oh?” BL said not paying real close attention. “He told me you came by early this morning” BL looked at Clyde, he had her undivided attention. Clyde continued, “Said you and Dixie had been at hounddog lake all night with Luke and Bo Duke.” “Yeah, we used to all camp out there alot,” BL didn’t like where this talk seemed to be headed. “Me, Luther and Jesse knew where ya’ll were then,” Clyde was making a real effort to stay calm and reasonable. “Care to tell me what ya’ll were doing?” Clyde asked. “Just camping out” BL did not want to get into a discussion of being accused and arrested for mail fraud, nor did she want Clyde to know about her court day, later in the week. “Just camping out, well just camping out with a guy, especially when that guy is a Duke boy could make you talk of the town.” Clyde said. With Clyde’s last statement, BL heard Dixie coming out of her mouth,“talk of the town…why should I care? Might leave others alone. I’m not a kid anymore, you can’t tell me what to do.” “Young lady as long as you live under my roof…” Clyde bellowed but anything else he was going to say was cut off as BL stormed to her room “maybe it’s time I moved, I been trying to decide what to do with Miz Tisdale’s house.” —-------------------- Within 15 minutes BL had packed her bags and Sadie’s food and water dish as well as the large plastic tote,where the dog food was kept, “I’ll come tomorrow for the rest of my clothes. Sadie come” BL said. GTO loaded, BL spun out of the driveway, turning toward town off calico road. Not wanting to broadcast her trouble over the CB, BL picked up the phone at Miz Tisdale’s house…her house, calling Dixie Dixie stopped folding the last of her clothes and answered the phone, "Davenport residence. This is Dixie." She answered, never knowing if the call was business for a wrecker call. “Dix its BL, we need to talk, I’m at Miz Tisdale’s, I mean my new house.” BL didn’t want business overheard by Maybelle Tillingham who was known to eavesdrop on private calls and spread gossip then, Dixie sighed as she saw her plans for the evening going South, "Do you want me to come over? I'm almost done with my laundry." “Yeah, this just hasn’t been my day,” BL said. Dixie replied, "Yeah, it's been like that everywhere today. Should I bring clothes for tomorrow?" She felt like it was going to be a long night and nowhere like the long night she had had the night before. “Sure, there’s plenty of room. Bring snacks too please, icecream if ya’ll got any, ain’t nothing to eat here except Sadie’s food that I brought. We need bowls and spoons if ya’ll got disposable.” BL said, she’d have to go grocery shopping tomorrow. —------------------------- Dixie envisioned instead of her taking a small bag and a hanger that this was going to turn into an epic adventure, "Yeah, ok. It's gonna take a minute." She said as she took her laundry to her room. A uniform on a hanger she left on her door. Set the rest on her bed. Reached in the closet and grabbed a duffle bag. She grabbed her badge and brass for her uniform and put in a change purse into the duffle. Grabbed 2 sets of socks and underwear from her folder basket. A night shirt, her house shoes. Tooth brush, paste, deodorant, body spray, to the bathroom for her shampoo and conditioner. Set her work shoes by the bag, then mentally checked again everything she had and put a couple more things in the bag. Grabbing the bag, hanger, shoes, wallet and keys she headed down stairs and left everything in the living room as she went to the kitchen and got a box from the panty as she thought, 'She said snacks but we haven’t eaten yet.' She found a frozen pizza, foil to heat it on, a 2 liter of soda. She was glad her Dad and Cooter hated washing dishes before she came home. She found paper plates, cups, a roll of paper towels, toilet paper for good measure. Then remembered she also had to take bath towels and washcloths. Coffee, she would need coffee. Back in the pantry she found an old coffee pot for the stove top. Chips and dip. In the back of the fridge was beer that either Cooter or Luther had put in there. Figuring on replacing it, Dixie left them two a piece and promptly put the rest in her box. Another look around the kitchen and she decided after last night she had better leave a note. Gone to BL's I owe ya a beer. Love Dix. —------------------------ With that she was out of the kitchen, opened the front door and set the awkward heavy box on the porch just as she heard Luke's pickup cut up the driveway. She waited until he parked beside her car. Luke saw Dixie standing in the doorway with a large box on the porch. Luke got out of the truck and gave her a questioning look. Dixie flashed an award winning smile, "So you came to rescue me?" Luke was puzzled, but replied, "Always. It's my job." He looked in the box and had to ask, "Dixie, are you running away from or to somewhere or are you moving or what?" "Luke, you can't get rid of me that easy. Something is up with BL. She's at Miz Tisdale’s place which has nothing. I'm gonna go spend the night and leave from there. Here,take this box ..." She put it in his arms, "Hold on." She set her bag and shoes on the box. "I'll just grab my uniform, wallet and keys. As Luke managed barely to get to Dixie’s car, he said, "I've seen platoons of Marines go out for a week with less." Dixie was packing the items in the car, "Sorry." Dixie was almost done, when she remembered the ice cream “shoot, be back in a sec” Dixie told Luke, going back inside she decided to get a few more things. Heading to the bathroom for towels and washcloths, she snagged the blanket off the couch. Luke asked, "Ice cream?" Dixie shrugged, "It makes everything better, besides BL asked for it." Luke put up his hand to stop further explanation of something apparently only a woman would understand. —--------------------- Waiting for Dixie, BL unloaded her car. “Well Sadie looks like it’s just us BL said to the dog at her heels. ”Think BL will mind if I show up too? I’d kind of like to know what’s up, her not coming here or the farm ain’t right” Luke said, this just wasn’t like BL if she needed space from Clyde. “No I don’t think she’ll mind, we better get going though or the icecream will melt,” Dixie said. Dixie got in her car backing out before the ice cream started to melt, Luke got in his pickup, not exactly how he had planned his time with Dixie but at least there was no danger in Luther seeing something to get him riled. Luke followed Dixie around Town Square and to BL's. Once there, he said, "Get your uniform and ice cream and warn BL I'm here. I'll get the rest." Dixie gave him a smile with puppy dog eyes, sort of like she had at the age of five, "Thanks Luke." Dixie opened the door and called, "OK, BL. We and half the house are here." “Who’s we?” BL asked coming down the stairs from putting the few things she’d brought in a bedroom upstairs. —---------------------------- "Luke came with me to carry in everything you asked for or I needed." Dixie replied as Luke stepped onto the front porch with his arms full. “He just happened to come to see you and got drafted?” BL asked, continuing. “More like ya’ll had plans and I threw a wrench in them,” BL grinned. Luke came in with the box and asked “where should I put this? Hey BL”. “Hey Luke, just sit it on the table’s fine. You can put your bag in one of the bedrooms Dixie, except the first door on the left. Nothing in that one, it was Miz Tisdale’s and she took the furniture because it was a wedding present from her mama,”BL said. Dixie took her bag from Luke before he took the box to the kitchen. She sat the bag on the stairs with her purse and keys. Then seeing an empty nail where a picture had hung she hung her uniform there to go help Luke unpack the box of food and such. In the kitchen she put the ice cream in the freezer and saw Luke had started setting stuff out of the box. BL if you want to call Bo, I'll put the pizza in the oven. It should be done by the time he gets here.”Dixie said. —-------------------------------- Across the small yard, Miss Tiztale's former neighbor Mrs. Cravitz had gone from the front door then from window to window since BL had pulled in, then when Dixie and Luke pulled in, she had nearly broken her neck trying to see who all had entered her elderly neighbors home. Mrs. Cravitz had gotten used to Ms. Tizdale's motorbike leaving early and coming in after the Post Office closed, she fed her cat and nothing else hardly happened over there unless there caelld to her husband, "I'm telling you, there is something going on over there that shouldn't be." He kept reading the paper. Soon the loud power engine of General Lee, easily pulling up in front of the little house had again gotten Mrs. Cravitz undivided attention. Seeing Bo Duke's car and the young blonde Duke taking the porch steps two by two, she decided it was her civic duty to call the Sheriff. He was always going on about those no account Duke boys and all. —------------------------------ For all she knew they may be stealing her neighbor blind. She put the call through to the Sheriff's department. Rosco answered on the second ring “Sheriff’s office, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane speaking”. “Sheriff this is Gloria Cravitz, I just saw those Duke boys go into Miz Tisdale’s house, those Davenport girls is there too. I think they’re going to steal that poor old lady blind.” “Thank you for the information Mrs. Cravitz, I’ll check it out.” Rosco hung up the phone and went out to his patrol car, within a few minutes he pulled up at the little house,siren wailing, “wonder what Rosco wants now” BL said,peeking out the glass in the front door. “Alright you Duke boys and Davenport girls come out ith your hands up” Rosco shouted into his megaphone. —----------------------------i Luke set his beer down. Turned the oven off and said, "Go on out and stall him." Luke picked up the receiver, "Get me the Duke Farm." "Sure thang, Luke." the Hazzard operator Maybelle Tillingham said. "Duke Farm, this is Jesse." Luke heard his Uncle say. "Uncle Jesse, call Miz Tisdale and have her call the Sheriff's department in about ten minutes. We're all at her house Rosco is out front summoning us out front with hands up. Dixie and I both work in the morning. We'd prefer not to be late. I got to go before he gets excited." Luke hung the phone up. Rosco was already yelling, "Luke Duke come on out here! Don't make me come up and get you." Across the yard Mrs. Cravitz was glued to the window watching the blue lights flashing. BL was losing her patience, it had been one of those days if one more thing went wrong she was going to scream, “Rosco! What in the world is wrong with you?” BL said. “Mrs Cravitz called and said you all were here and she thought ya’ll was going to rob the place,” Rosco said. “That’s ridiculous, we’re giving BL a house warming party, she said Miz Tisdale signed some papers giving her rights to be here” Dixie said. “I wanna see proof,”Rosco said. Everyone looked at BL, she thought about the signed agreement with Miss Tizdale, "It's at Daddy's." Rosco said, "Well all of you just git in my car, where is that Luke Duke?" Luke picked that exact time to step out of the house onto the porch and said,"Rosco, you are making a big mistake here. BL has the house, we are her guests." "Guests? Tiddly tuddly! Guests, my Aunt Fannie!" Roscoe stated, just come on down and get in this here patrol car. Feeling secure in the fact that he had already talked to Jesse and knowing BL had the right to be there, Luke did as he was told. The girls and Bo looked at each other, after Luke got into the patrol car, “What just happened?” Bo asked. Both girls shrugged their shoulders “c’mon Dix let’s go get that agreement”, BL got in her car. Rosco almost went into a fit and started waving his pearl handled pistol around, "OH NO you two don't. Ya’ll ain't going nowhere. I'm taking ya'll all four of you in. Shame shame shame trying to loot poor Ole Miz Tisdale." —----------------------------- Luke had just reached the patrol car, Bo had been about half way there when they turned to see why Rosco was pitching a fit. Luke motioned for them all to just get in the car. "Dixie, if ya'll want to be on time for work tomorrow, let's just get this over with." All four knew getting away from Rosco could have easily been done, but Luke knew as soon Miz Tisdale called they would be let go. Trusting that Luke knew what he was doing, the others followed him to the patrol car. Bo being, Bo asked, "Care to tell us how this is supposed to work?” Rosco replied, simple. He pointed to Dixie, you up front, you three in the back. The foursome got in their assigned spots, Rosco getting behind the steering wheel. Mrs. Cravitz had stayed glued to the window watching it all, “Abner he’s taking them to jail, I knew they were upto something.” Just as Rosco was moving his four prisoners into the downstairs part of the jail, the phone started to ring. "Ya’ll just freeze, freeze it right there." He turned to answer the phone. Luke couldn’t hide the slightest grin on his face as Rosco answered the phone. “Sheriff’s office…”Rosco said but he didn’t get a chance to say more. —----------------------- “Sheriff, I signed an agreement with BL stating that my house was hers, now that she runs the post office. Puts her closer to town, so she can meet the mail truck at 8 every morning. So what’s this I hear, about you harassing her, Luther Davenport’s girl and them nice Duke boys?” Miz Tisdale fussed. “Mrs Cravitz said they was upto no good” Rosco said. “Well they ain’t, so leave‘em be,you here?” Miz Tisdale scolded. “Yes ma'am,” Rosco said, hanging up, then to the group he said “that was Miz Tisdale, she said the house is yours BL. Ya’ll are free to go.” "Come on ya'll." Luke said. Everyone started up the stairs as Bo said, "Bet that just ruined your night didn't it Rosco?" Luke swore, "For THE love of God Bo!" "What?" Bo replied as Rosco said, "Ruin my night, huh? We'll just see whose night gets ruined!" He took that as a personal challenge. Outside, Luke said as they crossed the square, "You just had to run your mouth didn't you?" Bo said again, "What? What did I do?" Luke shot him a look as he put his arm around Dixie, "Sorry, none of this is what I had planned." "Just exactly what did you have planned?" Dixie stepped in front of Luke and looked up at him with a wicked grin. Luke didn’t say anything, he just returned Dixie’s wicked grin. The foursome walked back to the little house, where they heard Sadie whining inside, she wasn’t used to BL just disappearing, leaving her behind. “Poor thing, probably wondered where I went”, BL said. —---------------------------- “Why don’t we take her for a stroll? It's a nice evening for one,” Bo said. “How about it Sadie, want to go for a walk?” Bo said, patting Sadie’s head, his answer was Sadie bringing him her leash. “I think that’s a yes,”BL said. Bo clipped the leash to Sadie’s collar, taking BL’s hand, heading out. “Pizza should be cooked,by the time ya’ll get back” Dixie said, giving Luke a slight grin, they were getting some alone time after all. Bo and BL set off down the sidewalk with Sadie. "How about grabbing us a beer while I do a little remodeling for BL?" Luke asked. Dixie had no idea what sort of remodeling Luke had in mind, but went to get them both a beer. The evening hadn't gone as planned but had some potential. When she returned she found Luke with a blanket at the double window in the living room that had far too sheer of a curtain on it for his taste since the neighbor on that side had just gotten them arrested. "Good idea." Dixie said as the phone rang. She simply answered, "Hello?" Followed by. "Yes Sir, he's here just let him get off the chair. Luke,it's Uncle Jesse for you." "It's Luke, .... I was hanging something up for BL, .... Yes, thanks, I'm not sure what Miz Tisdale said but Rosco let us go before he even got to lock the cell door..... Yes Sir, we will." Dixie asked, "Hanging something for BL hmmm?" "I was." Luke confirmed as he pulled Dixie to him on the couch." —------------------ Bo put his arm around BL’s shoulders as they walked along the sidewalk, Sadie, nose to the concrete following something’s trail. “How come you all the sudden, moved into your own place?” Bo asked. “I’ll tell you when we get back to the house,” BL said. Their beers forgotten, Dixie and Luke were very busy with a heavy petting session. Across the yard, Gloria said, "Somethings wrong over there. Them kids are back there, then two of them left with a dog. Now, I can't see anything through the living room window." She had gone to every window on that side of the house and confirmed, "Nope, nothing." Her husband laughed to himself, "Good." —---------------------- Bo and BL took their time walking down the sidewalk, then cutting across, up by some of the businesses in the square, it was too dark already for window shopping in the closed stores darkened windows, so they crossed the street to the church then back to BL’s. “We better make our presence known before entering the livingroom,looks like,” BL said, seeing the blanket over the livingroom window. “Yeah”, Bo said. Bo made sure when he hit the wooden porch that his boots were heard. Across the yard, he and BL saw what Luke had suspected as the living room curtain moved. Dixie sat up quickly to fix her bra and shirt. She just remembered she was supposed to turn the oven back on, "Crap, I forgot to turn the oven back on." She jumped up quickly and hurried to the kitchen. After turning the oven back on she took the time to redo her ponytail. Luke had stood up to do some adjusting and shirt tucking of his own. He took his beer and sat back on the couch. He was grateful for his cousin's loud boots. “Pizza ready yet? I’m starving,“ Bo said. “Not yet”, Luke said. Dixie came back to the livingroom, sitting on the couch by Luke. BL sat down by Bo on the loveseat, “I guess ya’ll would like to know what’s up with my sudden move” BL said, three heads nodded ‘yes’. —--------------------------- BL told them about the talk with Clyde, “next thing I heard Dixie coming out of my mouth when he said…well bellowed is more like it…and I quote ‘Young lady as long as you live under my roof…’ and that’s when I told him I’d been wondering, what to do with this place, I packed some stuff and left,” BL said. Luke nearly choked on his beer at BL saying she heard Dixie come out of her mouth. "Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Dixie asked. “It means cousin dear, at times you are ‘mouth of the south’,” BL said. Bo and Luke grinned widely. “I’m moving in for a few days atleast, then we’ll see,” BL said. All three nodded their understanding as they sipped their beers and waited on the pizza. —------------------------ When the pizza was done, Dixie cut it into four pieces and put it on paper plates. BL grabbed four beers and the group opted to eat in the living room. "Abner, Abner! Those boys are still over there with those girls and they are drinking BEER!" Gloria stressed the last word. Abner wondered out loud, "I wonder if they have an extra case or three?" When the pizza and beer was gone, Luke looked at the clock, "Bo we need to get out of here in a bit." "Why?" Bo asked. Luke began counting, "One - Mrs. Cravitz has already called Rosco. Two - We have to work tomorrow. Three - We know Mrs. Cravitz is watching our every move, ....." Bo broke in, "So what?" Luke gave him a look, " Four - If we stay much longer it won't be 'decent'. Five - None of us need to be the topic of the town gossip for the next month." —-------------------------- Gloria had gone about her routine, ignoring the young folks at least that’s what she wanted her husband to think. “We better get going Bo it’s nearly 10 o’clock”, Luke said. “Alright, I’m coming” Bo said, pulling BL up with him, putting his arms around her, holding her close. —----------------------------- “I’ll come by the post office tomorrow with a list of people Boss sold ‘luxury homes’ to,”Bo said. The girls walked the guys out, saying goodnight with long deep kisses, that left the guys needing a cold shower. “Abner, it's 10 o’clock and those boys are just leaving,” Mrs. Cravitz reported. “Gloria come away from that window!” Abner demanded, he’d had enough of Gloria’s spying. There was no way General Lee could be pulled out from anywhere quietly, but Bo did try. Luke ran dual glasspacks on his truck and it wasn't the quietest one in town as he backed out of the driveway and turned toward home. Once the guys were gone Dixie called it, "Dibs on a bath while you take Sadie out. I got farther to drive in the morning." BL chuckled “ok, I’ll clean up from where we ate too, won’t take me long”. Dixie got a towel and washcloth from the box of stuff she’d brought along with her nightshirt and headed to the bathroom. BL went to the kitchen, cleanup was a breeze it was just throwing away some trash. That done she opened the back door onto the back porch, “c’mon Sadie let’s go out”. Sadie bounded out the door to explore the fenced backyard, BL sat down on the porch edge thinking about her upcoming court hearing and wondered if any of the people Boss Hogg scammed, would show up to testify for her innocence. She also thought about whether or not she should move here permanently. —------------------------ Bo pulled General Lee into his usual place but unlike usual, Luke came around him to park closer to the house. Jesse looked at the clock and smiled. The boys were actually home early. He put down his Bible and picked up his coffee cup for a refill. He wanted to know more about Luke's call to him earlier about Miz Tisdale's place. Just as Jesse opened his door he heard the shower kick on and the refrigerator open. In the kitchen he found Bo about to make a sandwich. Jesse looked toward the bathroom door questioningly. Bo shrugged his shoulders. Jesse sat down at the table while Bo ate, “how did you four kids get on Rosco’s radar to get yourselves arrested?” Jesse asked. Bo finished chewing and swallowing ”beats me Uncle Jesse, Rosco said he got a call saying we were there to rob Miz Tisdale”. “Who in tarnation would do that?” Jesse fussed. “Mrs, Cravitz,” Bo said, answering Jesse’s question. “Miz Tisdale, sure, set him straight, didn’t even get us in a cell, he let us go soon as he got off the phone.” "Well that's good." Jesse said as he heard the shower cut off. He took a sip of coffee and waited. Bo rinsed his plate and glass out. "Night Uncle Jesse." "Good night Bo." Jesse said. —--------------------------- Luke came out of the bathroom carrying his boots and shirt. Dressed only in his jeans. "Hold it a minute Luke." Jesse said. Luke came into the kitchen, "Yes Sir?" Jesse asked, "Mrs. Cravitz?? What did ya'll do to her?" Luke replied, "Nothing. We showed up. I carried Dixie’s things in. Bo got there. We had a pizza in the oven. Rosco showed up to arrest us like we didn't belong. BL had an agreement with Miz Tisdale." "Were ya'll being loud with the cars?" Jesse asked. Luke replied. "Not intentionally but none of them are quiet." Jesse decided to push his nephew's buttons just a might. Jesse asked with a twinkle in his eye, "How many showers do you need a day?" Luke started to be annoyed but saw Jesse's expression and replied, "You wanted me home early. We left about 10 all nice and proper." "Good, keep it that way, but Luke, there are other options." “Other options?” Luke asked not quite following his Uncle. Jesse said straight faced, "If you married her, you wouldn't need those cold showers." Jesse grinned widely and stood up to head back to his room. Luke looked like he’d been slapped with a wet dish rag as he watched Jesse go back to his room and shut the door. —------------------------- In town at Miz Tisdale’s, BL was just coming out of the bathroom ready for bed in her nightgown, wet hair still wrapped in a towel. “Night Dix”, BL said on her way past the room Dixie had claimed earlier. "Night, BL. I'll try not to wake you and Sadie when I get up in the morning." Dixie said. She was in bed but not really sleepy.“Don’t worry about it, Sadie usually wants to go out about 6,” BL said, thinking she might do a little grocery shopping before meeting the mail truck at the post office at 8AM, Rheubottom’s opens at 7AM. "So, if I should get off on time, where do you think you'll be when I get back in the county?" BL pushed away from the bedroom doorway, going to the bedroom next to it to get her hairbrush. Coming back to sit on the end of the bed,removing the towel from her head, “The Boar’s Nest or the garage with the others I guess, like pretty much everyday after work. Why?...” Dixie replied, "OK. No reason really. Just wondering if I should pack this up in the morning or take a change of clothes with me to work. You know how the guys love it when I show up in work clothes and I really don't think Rosco likes it any more than he does knowing Luke’s pickup can legally run red lights." Dixie giggled at the thought of Luke driving the sheriff nuts once forest fire season arrived.BL giggled a little too, guessing what Dixie was thinking. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hot air * * I'm sure I don't have to remind you guys where I got this....??? ( let me know if I do! )

Well I find this post kinda sad seeing me posting about my Rosco being eleven months old back then. Where did the time go? He was my ornery pup who turned into my loyal and loving dogs. Sadly I had to put him down this past Tuesday at eleven years old. He would have been twelve in January. Oh how I miss him and his silly antics. He will be forever missed and forever loved.