Selene
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 43
Thinking about it... ‘was this a mistake?’ A bit more rumination and, ‘You should go look.’
“Daddy?”
“Yes?”
“I bought some more land,” I said.
“And?”
“Wanna go look?”
There was the sound of papers laid on a desk ... suddenly ... like a slap. Then the scrape of a rollerchair with rollers jammed with my long hair. A heavy sigh and footsteps.
“You haven’t seen it? Selene!”
“It was cheap.” Even I could hear the cringe.
“How much?”
“Fifty an acre.”
“In the Arizona desert?”
“Next door.”
“Hornsbys place?”
“Yes.”
“Really? ... how far?”
“East to 973.”
“South?”
“To the first Dirt and Loam...”
“I heard that but...”
“I got it too ... but they have a lease.”
“All three ponds?”
“There are three?”
“Yeah ... let’s go look.” He suggested jeans, hightop leather boots, gloves and a snakebite kit.
We changed.
“Call Bud. Ask if we can borrow the track.”
Bud had purchased a German Leopard from Canada.
Ooo ... I can see that requires some explanation.
Great Britain had a huge testing ground in Saskatchewan ... until the Canadians threw them out. It was a case of go home ... now! When they left ... they left everything ... and a few of the things they left were Leopards ... the tank.
About a hundred of them.
Ooo ... that’s not a few ... that’s a bunch. The Canadians had a big scrap metal sale. De-militarized Sten submachine guns ... thousands of ‘em ... military vehicles ... bunch a Land Rovers and stuff ... the Leopards were in the ‘stuff’.
Rather than emulating the Americans by cutting the barrel off the cannon ... the Canadians kept the turrets. Which was peachy keen by Bud ... he wanted the track part. The Leopards were road worthy ... rubber covered tracks. He took the bus up ... drove the tank home. It had been sitting in his shop ever since.
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