T. Reeder - The Free Republic of Texas 2015 AD

With that Jody and Sing stood up and he put out his hand and I took it and said I’ll see you for breakfast tomorrow morning, and please Sing, join us? She got a scared look for a second and Jody laughed and said she hasn’t left the place since we got here, she thinks people will stare because of her markings, looking at her I said without thought, they would look regardless because she’s beautiful… and we both blushed… On that note I made my escape running like a beaten dog and never looked back, if I had I would have seen Jody laughing his butt off and Sing with her mouth open.

Back in my hide out I call home I sat and thought and thought some more, then I decided to think about it all over again, and somewhere along about 3 AM I came to the conclusion that Jody was right, I had let several years pass me by and hid from the world and waited to die, and my wife God rest her would have beaten me with the Ugly stick for it, on that note I went to bed.

Morning came too soon but at 7 am I was at what had become Jody’s table I sat with my back to the door which I almost never did, I sat so I could watch the faces of the crowd, and right on time the door opened with all the usual noise of a cat fight and about 20 pair of eye balls popped out and you could have heard smoke hit the floor If anybody had ever had the guts to even think about smoking In Miss Ellie’s domain, I knew right then that Sing had come along, last night she was lovely, when I stood I found myself falling in love! She had on a wrap around shirt that ties in front, it was the Emerald green as her markings,with her long shiny black hair down to her waist and tight black jeans and cowboy boots she looked like somebody’s idea of a dream come to life!

It was quiet in the Early Bird, so quiet you could almost hear the old clock ticking and it hadn’t worked for 40 years.

Well sir, Miss Sing walked right up to me and raising up on her toes kissed me gently right on the mouth and I died a little, her smile was so white against the copper color of her skin that it lit up the room.

After seating Sing and shaking hands with Jody we both sat down, me? I was just along for the ride and didn’t care where we were going!

The rest of the room all nodded when Jody said good morning but still nobody seemed to be breathing,

Jody stood and held his hand out where as Sing took it and she stood and turned to the room, Jody said,this is my adopted daughter Sing, that’s easier then trying to say her birth name which translates to Sings in the morning, She was born high in the mountains of South East Asia where she and her Brother whom we call Song were orphaned by Communist forces because her village worked with us during and after the war….(My mind screamed AFTER?!!! but I said nothing and I think it slid past the local crowd ) I found them while passing thru the area and brought them out with me, he looked at Sing and smiled, She smiled at the room and then spoke in that upper crust English Accent of hers and said good morning and that she was happy to be here and hoped to make many new friends, then she sat down and here came Miss Ellie with breakfast for 3, mine and Jody’s usual and a smaller serving for Sing who rewarded Miss Ellie with that radiant smile and got one in return!!

We ate in quiet for a while then the conversation picked up again and folks just accepted that this was how it was but the phone lines were going to melt down very soon!

After we finished we walked out together and headed to my place, after putting on a pot of coffee we sat down in the kitchen and Jody and Sing looked around, I was very glad I had cleaned a bit better then my norm!

I asked Jody where he got his information on me and he very openly said he had connections in high places and also that Song whom I hadn’t met was a computer genius compared to none and could hack the White house if needed, I took that as a joke and really believe it was meant to be but Jody nor Sing gave so much as a smile, kinda thing that makes ya go… HUH… So while I digested that Sing jumped up to get coffee and I followed right behind her, she asked where things were and I showed her, after getting our coffee we sat back down and really got to it.

There is something coming at us at high speed Jody opened with, I don’t know what or exactly when but it won’t be more then a year and it will be bad and the loss of life throughout the world will be beyond belief he added.

The plan I have and that is still a work in play is to have an area that can support it’s self, food wise and act as a place to start the long road back to having a country again, he added that he had been working on this idea for most of his time in the Marines, but didn’t have a place in mind.

The Harmond ranch was like a sign from above so to speak, and while he had the basics of a plan and some of the money to implement It he knew he needed more then himself and the kids as he referred to them and so he started the search of the people he thought might be willing to be involved.

When I asked who he had found so far he said Miss Ellie of course, now that surprised the hell out of me! But he then added that Granny Harmond had been related to Miss Ellie who knew his mother from trips to visit when she was a girl, so when he called to introduce himself his mother broke the ice so to speak, then he came out here and had several visits with Ellie telling her the same story he had told me, Miss Ellie had given him my name and told him that I was not only wealthy but honest and a good man to have on your side, which surprised me a bit but then I remembered all the small chit chat I’d had with Ellie over the years, and hadn’t realized how much I had revealed to her, so much for being a fly on the wall!

He settled into his chair more comfortably and said his plan was to build the ranch into more of a place of refuge and a place to grow enough to feed as many as possible, while at the same time working with the folks living both on the ranch and around the country side, to provide plans for further food growing and storage and protection against the low life’s that would come out like roach’s into the light of day.

To educate the children, here now and those to come, to train teachers and mechanics, carpenters, all the trades, so man would not slip back into the caves while losing all that had been built in the past. As he talked I could see clear as a bell what he was talking about, the only place it was dim for me was the why of it, and how it would happen, how he knew so surly it would happen as he said.

I asked that very question and his answer was as straight forward as everything about Joe D. Brown, He said he knew for a fact but could not prove that there were forces within our own government that desired to be Kings and to run the country as a bunch of principalities, That they wanted to be Lords over all they saw within their own boundaries, that alone made me squirm a bit, how could this be? He said that was only a few who were in power, others wanted to have the entire world under their control, One World, One Government, One leader, one Church, “ONE PEOPLE” and all controlled by the central government. No more US of A, no more Germany or France etc. and there were other factions who wanted no government at all, no laws, the strongest will out, the lesser peoples to be serfs, some wanted race wars, religious wars, and in the middle of it all, the little people, the Joe six pack who just wanted a job and a roof over his head and a family.

Could all this really be true I asked and yes was the answer, he said “They” were divided on the how but not the why, except who’s fairytale would be the one?? And this was where the end would come, they would fight among themselves and it would roll over all of us, no country would be spared, none allowed to remain free…except one, this one because somebody, US were going to stop it here in this place by being more ready to fight them then they thought, from this area the people of America as we knew it would go out and stop these wanna be kings and Rulers. Thru it all Jody never raised his voice, his eyes never got wild looking, his ice cold reasoning was clear, somebody was going to destroy our country but we were going to stop them… it might take our lives or our life times and many more but in the end we would be a free land peopled by free men!