Sasha Distan

thanks so much Dugh; high praise as always. I'm sure Clem's friends will come around too!Pink on a male horse is fine... just not in the narrow minded world of Nathan Cole.

The local rodeo used what had once been a football stadium. When one of the bigger schools had built a much larger and better equipped pitch closer to the centre of Lockhart, the local league teams had moved house, and the old stadium had been bought over by the only other big horse people in the area apart from the Cole family. The place was constantly teeming with horses, cattle, sheep, and people, and Clem drew up his truck in the red dirt lot filled with dozens of other trucks; all the four

Thank you Cannd, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.I am sorry that the short stories leave you wondering, but I do always like to end with hope. Seth and Jonas will make it, of that you can be assured: they've come too far not to make it work. maybe one day the kid with the purple hair and his redneck will required feeding and maintenance, but not today. Keep coming back sweetie, you're the reason we got here, after all.

hahaha! no, Ashlee is not a woman, that would be really mean, and there ain't nothing missing between his legs. I promise.

if it worked on chapters not stories, Proms would win on many, many weeks...

I feel that we may be a small minority. Well done you though, and do you still love it?

Everyone, and I mean everyone, said that looking for a house would take forever. My sister in law told us to be prepared to look for a year, others said we would see dozens of properties, and good friends of ours said that we were more than likely to need to spent six months firming up our credit rating. This last was especially worrying, especially since we were told that without any loans or regular credit card actions, our credit rating would likely be lower (purely through being non-existent). And despite one very judgmental mortgage adviser, a bank who didn't like us, and so many large numbers I went a bit head-blind on the left side, we have it in the bag. Exactly three weeks after making the decision to buy a house, we have put reservation money down on a semi-detached new build property and spent three hours at the offices looking at options for our new and rather large kitchen. And I'm gonna get exactly what I want. Solicitor phone call happens tomorrow, and the mortgage brokers come for their meeting Tuesday. The house will be completed (it's not fully built yet) at the end of March to the middle of April, so we'll be all moved in by our birthdays. Wish us luck, we'll have chickens roosting by the time we cut hay...

Happy Birthday, little pup. Best wishes and lots of love

Hell, he got matching white overreach bell boots for his horse... I congratulate him on getting a horse into a dress and giving her matching shoes. I wonder if it's a gelding?

Best gift received: Cris got me a half day personalized one on one butchery course, in which I will learn to take a pig apart. I hugged him really really hard under the tree. Best gift given: box of girly goodies I helped make (thank you YouTube) for Cris's mum. It had orange tea, fancy chocolates, I made lip balm, orange exfoliating hand scrub and orange and mango butty butter. She loved it and got all excited and giggly. the only girl in the family deserves to be spoiled, after all, she managed to produce a bunch of geeky boys!

as a follow up to the Christmas season and the thread I start on the giving and all important wrapping of gifts: what was the favourite thing you got this year, and why? what was your favourite thing you gave to someone, and did they love it as much as you hoped? **Note: this thread is NOT designed to be a place to boast about all the cool things you got, it is for giving thanks to the person/people who gave you the love and happiness it represents - even if in all likelihood they will never see it.

Clem has other friends... they were there for him before, so who knows?Trust in Sasha, as Gary and dugh would say.

hehehe, I'm glad you're enjoying the little adventure!

happy new year Gary! Ashlee waltzes to his own tune sure enough. I'm sure the rodeo will be able to handle him.

thanks very much!I understand your concerns about the rodeo, but 'small town' as it might be they are only 1/2 hour outside of Austin, so it's not that much in the middle of nowhere - which isn't to say that there might be problems... but that would be telling. Ain't nobody going to jail today though.

thanks very much! Hope you enjoy the rodeo chapter, and that you survive the wait!

If Clem found the time to wash his truck (again) then he certainly managed to change the sheets!

apologies are for the weak!Clem is nervous about the rodeo too, but I can't blame him - I'd be nervous if my date was Ashlee too!

hahaha! thanks Cole.Absence might make the heart grow fonder and all that, but it makes the jeans uncomfortable...

Madison - and i'm sure she will. At least Clem has someone to talk to about boys now!

“I thought about you all afternoon y’know.” “Glad to hear it,” Ashlee purred, “I didn’t distract you too much did I?” “Sure, I nearly sliced my thumb off on the mower,” Clem joked. Ashlee, of course, panicked, and the big farm hand calmed him down with the phone cradled against his ear. He’d been given the middle of the day to drive to Austin and back to have his lunch date, but to compensate Clem had bolted his dinner and gone back out to the fields for an extra couple of hours. They’d cut t

depends - are you going on the Harley in just your boxers?

thanks very much! Romance and realism aren't so bad to aim for. I think you might be right in your assumption, though I'm not saying anything.

Thank you very much. I am so glad that we have had you along for the ride! I look forward to hearing from you again.

I'll totally swap with you. Forest - check! Snow - check! Wildlife - check!