Chapter 1

My name is Jason. Remember me “The Swamp Creature”? Now you remember! The last time you heard from me was when I attended the wedding of Joe King and his wives Peg and Dove O’Shea (read ‘How I Became Part of the O’Shea Family). That’s where I met Carla and Darla, the red-haired twin daughters of Robert O’Shea. It was love at first sight. We were together every day until the wedding then for a couple of days after. When it was time to go home, they wanted to ride with me. Not an easy thing in a monster truck with bucket seats but we managed. I was living in south Florida with my parents, but I was not having fun. At that time of my life ‘fun’ was my main objective. On the way back ‘home’, as I always called the town where I grew up, the twins and I decided that I was leaving south Florida and moving back ‘home’. Joe was going to close his company down and move to his wife’s family farm, so he was going to need some help in doing that. While he was on his honeymoon I drove to mom and dad’s house and packed everything I owned in my truck. I kissed my parents and south Florida goodbye. I was back in 3 days. It seemed like it was forever without the twins.

An old buddy of mine let me crash with him. He had a two-bedroom apartment and one bedroom was mine, if I would pay half the rent. Joe started paying me to answer the phone at the company and watch over everything. When he returned, he was with both his wives and we got busy boxing everything and selling what he did not need. He decided to take his two new trucks to the O’Shea farm. He was going to build a house and a couple of barns so he thought he might need the trucks and some of his tools. He also wanted to take his backhoe and trailer. Since I knew the way to the farm, he entrusted me with the task of hauling the backhoe and trailer there. I told the twins what was happening and they were in the truck with me the day I left with the backhoe in tow.