Valerie Strate

Valerie walked with her arm around her dancing partner. She felt lighter than air as they headed to the bar. Val and Riddick sat down at a table next to each other, still holding hands under the table. She looked at the rings on her hand and smiled at the folks at her table, "A round on me people!" With that the waiter came with another beer for Riddick and an Appletini for Val. The party was hopping. Val smiled as she noticed Vicki and Jack dancing along with LB and Kristy on the floor. She sipped her appletini and squeezed her partner's hand tight. The night was beautiful and life was good.

Pendragon, Congradulations to you! I'm very very happy for you. It's always great to hear about someone suceeding in life. I know what you've been through with the downs. Heck, I'm sure most writters here do. But to hear about a fellow writer's personal success, and to know that yourself and the 'community' had a part in helping them emotionaly, is truly beautiful. I wish you all the luck in the world, Pendragon. You've been and will be a great friend. Thank you. Marie Val's author.

Hey all, Do you realize that tonight is the 25 anniversary of the Dukes of Hazzard! Wooohooo! *Pops off cork of champagne bottle* Here's to the actors, Gy Waldron, the characters, CBS for even considering it in the first place (even tho' they don't like to even lay claim to the show at times), and for the fans who support it. Here's to the Dukes, the Law that chased'em, and the car that legends were made of, The General Lee…. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW! -Val-

Scoot, I know what it's like to be apart from the folks around here for a while. It stinks. But, I want you to know you'll always be with us in our hearts and minds. Take care Scoot. I'll pray for strength for you. You will be missed. I did enjoy talking to you at times and I pray you can come back someday again. Your characters brought cute childish antics that made people smile from time to time. Take care, Val and her author.

The mascline but mellow voice whispered in her ears like soft velvet against a baby's behind, "May I have this dance" Valerie turned around to see Ridick dressed in white. He looked stunning. Her soft warm gray eyes melted at the sight of the white clad figure before her. She grasped his hand which was offered to her and stood up. The pair walked out on the dance floor. He gracefully held her hand as they aproached the floor and instantly he gave her a twirl. The DJ then played 'Midnight Blue'. The disco lights trunned down low and glittered as the couple danced a slow but sassy dance of twirls, spins, and tight embraces. The lights flickered off of the rhinestones on her shoes and the chain on his hip. For them... everything stood still for a moment. For them at least.... in the 'Midnight Blue'...

Val sat back again at her seat next to Kristy. She had ordered her second Seabreaze. Her legs were crossed as she sat at the bar with her friends. "Ladies, I propose a toast..." The female Game Warden replied in a loud enough voice so all the women around her could hear. She raised her glass and spoke again, "To the women in Hazzard County.... and all the men who can't seem to tame us!" A roar of laughter came from the women as they all toasted to their friendship and this wild night. (cue anyone)

Val shot a look over to Chance, "Damn right, I am!" She then chuckled and continued to dance, "Chance, I don't think the guys at the Nest would know what to do with themsevles if they seen us like this." She continued to hum the Journey tune that was playing then spoke up again, "Hey, anyone know if MA or Daisy is gonna drop by? I would think Daisy wouldn't want to miss a night like this. Plus, I would love to do some Kareeko with MaryAnne." (cue anyone! Strut it Gals! LOL)

Val sat at the table with a grin of satsisfaction on her face. Her friends were having a blast and so was she. In the Strate woman's mind she couldn't be much happier than this. "Ah... Bliss!" Val smiled to herself as she then sipped on her drink. However she wanted to start in an activity that required movement, she debated joining her friends on the dance floor. Until.... she heard the disc jockey put Journey's song 'Any Way You Want It' on over the air waves of the club. "Hhhhhmmmm...." The off duty Game Warden mused to herself. She stood up and tugged on Vicki's arm, "C'mon Vick, let's join the party!" Val was feeling frisky tonight. She had already studied the room and knew that the majority of the guys here were not the normal type she usually ran into. The men here were impecibly dressed, well versed, well groomed, and in a male beauty pagenant against the Duke boys (the hottest men in Hazzard County) the Dukes would be an after thought. Half of her brain was saying, 'hide in the corner or behind the table' the other half was drunken with delight and happiness, 'Party! Wooohoo!'. This mental balance kept her in a steady clubbing balance. The Game Warden realized to herself,"Forget about the guys! This is Girls Night and you're going to PARTY!" She shimmied out to the dance floor near her friends. Her body began to jirate as she moved to the rythm of the beat and began singing, Any way you want it That's the way you need it Any way you want it She loves to laugh She loves to sing She does everything She loves to move She loves to grove She loves the lovin' things..... (cue anyone)

The Game Warden was sipping on a Seabreeze when the doctor asked that question. She sat her drink down and looked up at her with a bit of a smile and replied with a slightly snobbish mock accent in her voice, "Chance, Darling, the club is smiply smashing my dear." She then giggled slightly and took a look over at Vicki. "Have a seat Vick." she motioned to the empty seat next to her.

A tall dark haired female form came walking up behind the blond haired doctor and the Duke woman. She wore a white leather mini skirt, a blue chenelle sweater, with white leather and rhinestoned high heeled sandles that tied up above her ankles. Her hair was down and in a mane full of curls that framed her oval shaped face. She grinned as she came up behind her friends. "Howdy girlfriends... Like my..." she cleared her throat slightly as she showed her hand which was full of rings, "Bling Blings?" She then giggled, knowing full well she felt like a fish out of water.

Ooooo! I know who it is! *chuckles* Teddy Roosevelt and Bill Gates! Yep, they got Birthdays coming up! Yep... that's who has Brithdays coming up. Thanks MA and Lisa for recongitizing the founder of Windows for his birthday. Of course I think someone else has a birthday around here too. LOL.

Oh, yes... there are lots of Enos moments that leave me in sitches. Yes... I am a person who is easily amused. ROFL. I can remember in Officer Daisy Duke, he fell and Daisy had to go catch the bad guys on her own. He confessed he 'really cared for her' and she gave him a kiss before she left. It about left me in tears. I also loved the time that he was looking at the package of 'Maryjane' in Mason Dixon Girls. And he replies to Boss, "Unless it ain't marijuana Mr. Hogg. It kind of looks like parsey...." Boss stares at him like he's nuts. Then he replies, "Sage? Rosemary... or Thyme?" Or in 'The Big Heist' when the Duke boys tie him up and hang him on the wall. Rosco comes in the booking room and tries to raise him on the CB. Enos is sitting, tied up on a chair that is hanging off of a coat hook on the wall, which is behind a door. Rosco gets frustrated after trying to raise him on the CB and replies, "Enos when I get a hold of you, I'm gonna hang ya on the wall like a side of beef." Then he leaves. A little later in the same ep. Boss comes in looking for him or Rosco and says, "Ya think in a Sheriff's Department you'd find at least one cop hanging around." Probably my all time favorite piece, is seeing Enos with a 'Milk Mustache' in Enos Strate to the Top, where at the end of the ep. he is drinking buttermilk with the Dukes in their kitchen. It shows him with a milk mustache. Now I would love to see someone from the American Dairy Council, put that in a Got Milk ad durring next year when the Duke's Anniversary would be comming up. I loved that scence. But then you'd have to know me to understand why. LOL I could go on with Enos moments. Enos and Sonny always seemed to put a smile on my face with his performances.

I am a dipstick ain't I tho'.... Sorry MA, I just had to. Your post for the Sheriff made me laugh. It was cute.

"Well, Brian... Rosco is up at Tri-County. A fella named..."The Strate sister looked to her brother for a moment for the name. "Cully." Enos answered her. "That's it. Cully took him. Supposedly Cully has a cut arm as well. But he took'em up there. The Duke boys are up at Tri-County as well along with Daisy. The boys were out with the General and got caught up in a twister but it's said both are going to make it. The General's pretty tough, ya know. Daisy was found in here by a gentleman named Nate Iriving. I was stuck in the courthouse basement and he rescued me as well. Min, Jesse Cletus, and that Ian fella are all at Tri-County waiting for everyone to get better. As far as the where abouts of Mr. Hogg, Chance Walker, Daney Duke. Plus, I haven't seen Cooter and Hilery anywhere. I wonder how they are doing, so their where abouts are unknow. No one seems to know where MaryAnne is. We haven't seen her all day. And Mis. Tizdale is out in the square." Valerie explained to Brian when the group all heard a shifting sound. "We best get out of here or we might be going to Tri-County. This house don't seem stable." Enos told Brian and his sister. The three made it out of the house and outside of the Doctor's damaged home. (cue anyone)

The deputy cautiously made his way through the clutter. Enos carefully sifted through items as he shown the flashlight around the house. Suddenly a shifting sound could be heard. The deputy stoped in his tracks and stood so still he could here his own heart beating. Then he heard another stir. Slowly he moved the fashlight in the direction of the sounds. He didn't know if the noisy that he heard was the shift in the house or a sound of motion from some lifeform that was cast aside in the storm. He was praying for the latter of the two, for fear that someone might have been in here and not made it and for his own life. The Strate swallowed hard. He realized his sister didn't call to him so the structer of the house must still be fairly intacted. He then moved the light acrossed the Doctor's antique piano. When his heart struck a chord it's self, a human hand weakly reached out to his ankle and grasped it for life. A moan from below could be heard. "AAAAAAaaaahhhh!" The Hazzard deputy yelled as he felt the hand on his ankle and jumped back in fright. He fumbled with the flash light as he tried to regain composure of himself, "Possum on a gumbush! A talkin' piano!" He shone the light down at the floor infront of the piano and seen the hand grasping around. "Either that's, that cousin 'Thing' thing from that television show or someone's squashed under the piano." He spoke aloud. Then he then got down on the floor and shone the light underneith to see Brian Coltrane squashed by the piano. "Brian! What'd ya doing under that piano!" Enos asked, "And was anyone else in here with you and Daisy? Chance here? Daney around? Mr. Hogg?" (cue Brian)