Hondo's Cabin - After Chaos

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1850 - Dec 29^th, 2016, 10:04pm

In town, Val goes through several merchants for some basic items. There is no orange juice n the area but she picks up some apple and pear frozen juice concentrates along with some cider. Milk and unsliced cheese was next on her list, which were easy to find. Though not on the list, she picks up some honey and brown (beet) sugar, along with a box of cornflakes that caught her eye. Though they can bake their own breads at camp, she picks up a couple loaves of bread.

A bookstore catches her eye, though not for her her but for Zoey and perhaps Tonya. In the minimum, she hope they can read and if not, she needs to read them. In the bookstore however, Maribelle finds a couple of magazines and secretly snatches them up, paying for them and stuffing them into her coat as quickly as possible. Val puts up a few ink pens, crayons and pad of paper.

Last thing for her to pick up was some butter, meat, potato and fresh corn. If all goes well, she hopes to make a special dinner for Hondo tomorrow. Looking at Maribelle, she looks guilty of doing something but will confront her later on and hopes they are not arrested for shop-lifting on her part.

"You ready to go?" Val asks her.

"Yeah." Maribelle answers.

"Then lets go. Dinner should be ready when we get here." Val says, hoping for the best that Maribelle did not steal anything.

It takes them less then 10 minutes to get back to camp as they pull the wagon behind them.

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1851 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 12:52am

Note: if read before 8:40 CST 12/30 I edited a bit. Probably could use more but out of time. Brain fog last night left some things not how I wanted. Still not completely right but best I can do for an edit. Let me know if any character changes need made.

Zoey: sure, that would be great!

Penny: I'll be right back.

Penny hurries out to get her stuff.

Macey: great! Now you did it!

Zoey: what?

Macey: That was just to save our own butts! I didn't expect to have to learn something!

Zoey: well, it would be helpful to know how to sew.

Macey: yeah, I guess. I've seen it done before by some of the girls at Ma's place.

Zoey: they wouldn't teach you?

Macey; naw. When they weren't entertaining and sober enough to sew it was always" get out of here you little brat", or " you creep me out watching me", or " I sewed a bag for your mother to drown you in after you we're born. Too bad she didn't use it. "

Zoey: that's horrible!

Macey: when they we're drunk it wasn't so bad. Then it was, " I'll teach you how to sew like a pro! ", "I'll teach you how to make them beg,", or "I'll dress you up so pretty and sexy that men and women a like will want to eat you up! " They would even try to get me to watch them work. I did some. At first it was a curiosity, but some of the gross stuff I saw.

Zoey: don't tell me!

Macey: I'm sure you want to hear!

Zoey : Nooo!

Tonya stepped in.

Tonya: what's going on in here?

Zoey: just talking while we wait for penny to get her stuff. We asked her how us how to sew.

Tonya: hmm, I know the basics but I hear she is good. Maybe she can give me some advanced lessons. . . Good idea, zoey!

Zoey: it was Macey's idea.

Macey turned so tonya couldn't see her and gave Zoey the look.

Tonya: good idea , macey.

Macey: oh, I'm just full of them I guess.

Zoey whispered: full of something.

Zoey got the look again.

Tonya: OK. Well, I got to help finish up. You two be nice to penny and behave.

Macey: no problem!

Tonya left and a sigh of relief was heard from both of them.

Macey: for that I'm gonna tell you about the nastiest thing I've seen.

Zoey: oh, no.

Macey: I'll spare you for bow.

Zoey sighed in relief again.

Macey: I'll wait until you mom makes cookies again. You be so sick I'll have to eat you share!

Zoey: YOU!

Zoey jumped at Macey knocking her to the bed where she sat on her knees over her.

Zoey( said with a smile as she tried not to laugh)
: you're cruel!

Macey winked : you'd better believe it!

Zoey just shook her head as she let Macey up.

Zoey: even so, I still love ya.

Macey: you're a little naive but I still love you. . . But not like some of the girls at mas place loved each other.

Zoey: ew! You said you weren't gonna try to gross me out!

Macey: I haven't even started trying yet! But. . . I have a thought.

Zoey: oh?

Macey: I think I know what dad has been saying, somewhat.

Zoey: how so?

Macey: well, you're my friend. I like you, care about you, and dad says that's love. I can love you without. . .

Zoey: yeah, yeah, I get it! So you still question about the only love a man likes, like we talked about earlier?

Macey: I'm not sure of a lot of things. It is completely different from what Ma and the girls used to tell me. I need to talk to dad some more. It doesn't change how I feel but. . . I don't know. Love has always been something you do physically, or so Ma said. I didn't have any friends and I didn't really even like Ma. I don't think she liked me either. She just kept me around out of some screwed up sense of duty.

Zoey: it must have been hard for you with no one being nice to you.

Macey: there we're a few girls who we're nice. They usually had TB or some other illness and we're dying. They always we're nice to me and encouraged me to find a better life. But I didn't understand what they meant. I was gonna be one of Ma's girls.

Zoey : why would you to be like them?

Macey: I didn't so much want it. Just didn't think I cod do anything else.

Zoey: why?

Macey shrugged : ma told me I couldn't, I guess. She taught me. Numbers and my sums so I knew how to count money so not to be cheated out of money when i turned trix. She taught me how to read and write so I could get info from things in customers clothes while they we're busy.

Zoey;: like what?

Macey: names usually, some time copy other important looking papers if they had them.

Zoey: you didn't know their names?

Macey: most customers used fake names. Ma used to get a lot of money from some of them once I found out their real names.

Zoey: she black mailed them!?

Macey: not like they we're upstanding citizens anyway.

Zoey: I guess. Did you ever go to school?

Macey: naw. Ma said I wasn't smart enough to make anything of an education so she wasn't gonna " waste money on a whore in training."

Zoey: I'm glad Fernando found you.

Macey: I'm glad he did too and that uncle Hondo found you.

Zoey: you think we will be friends forever?

Macey: depends.

Zoey: on what?

Macey: how you feel after I tell you about the old geezer who died at mas place while one of the girls were . . .

Zoey: Macey!

Macey: no, it's not gross. . .well, maybe it is, but this old guy shit all over when he died, with one of the girls on top of him and. . .

Penny came in at that moment.

Penny: I'm back.

Zoey and Macey both jumped and turned at the same time.

Penny: I heard you say someone died?

Zoey turned to macey with an "uh oh" look.

Macey : an old guy at the, uh home where I lived.

Penny: oh. I thought it was a home for women by what you said earlier.

Zoey closed her eyes and covered them with one hand, envisioning that a train wreck would be better than the wrath to come if they included penny in on what they had been talking about.

Macey: yeah, it was a home for women, more or less, but he was the handy man. Poor old Floyd.

Zoey just shook her head.

Penny: why was the girl on top of him?

Macey: she, uh slipped. Seeing him dead scared her and she slipped and fell on him.

Penny: That's horrible!

Macey mumbled so only Zoey could hear clearly: at least he died happy.

Penny: what?

Macey: I said he he always made people happy, so yeah it was horrible.

Penny: oh.

It looked like Macey was going to speak again so Zoey talked quickly

Zoey: enough about Floyd! You got the stuff to show us how to sew, right?

Penny: right here.

Macey: then teach us the way of the needle and thread, oh wise Penny.

So then penny started in on her lesson.

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« Last Edit: Dec 30^th, 2016, 9:42am by Hondo I. Sackett »

Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1852 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 11:01am

Quote from Hondo I. Sackett on Dec 30^th, 2016, 12:52am:

Zoey: enough about Floyd! You got the stuff to show us how to sew, right?

Penny brought her sewing kit and plush crow. She first introduces Oliver. "This is my stuffed crow, Oliver. I made him." Penny sets Oliver on the floor in front of her.

"I also brought my sewing kit." Penny continues. "I asked about the dragon lady. No one knew anything about a dragon except for Chihiro and she said that he lives in Japan."

"Who did you ask?" Zoey asked.

"I asked my mom, your mom and Chihiro." Penny then changes the subject. "Something strange is going on."

"What's strange?" Zoey asks.

"The crow Spirits. There are more of them. I can hear what they say when they're talking but they're not talking right now."

Quote from Hondo I. Sackett on Dec 30^th, 2016, 12:52am:

Macey: then teach us the way of the needle and thread, oh wise Penny.

Penny does not know if Macey is mocking her or if she's just playing. Only the tone of her voice can tell.

Now that Penny has her sewing kit with her, she can start from the beginning by showing them. She gets to the thimbles. "Even though I have immortality, I use a thimble because pricking my fingers still hurts."

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1853 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 12:13pm

Zoey cringed inward as she knew she'd be questioned later, but the sewing did interest her. Macey was interested too but tried to act tough and not too interested. The crow comment didn't mean much to either Zoey or Macey. They just shrugged at the comment.

Note: Macey wasn't mocking. Just using sarcasm and a tough front as a defence mechanism due to her hard past. Fernando can change it if he feels it should be different. She wouldn't act like that around the adults but that's kids for ya, they act differently depending on the age group they are with.

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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1854 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 1:26pm

Quote from Hondo I. Sackett on Dec 30^th, 2016, 12:13pm:

Note: Macey wasn't mocking. Just using sarcasm and a tough front as a defence mechanism due to her hard past. Fernando can change it if he feels it should be different. She wouldn't act like that around the adults but that's kids for ya, they act differently depending on the age group they are with.

Note: I know that has been used in friendly ways; I could not tell either way here.

Penny covers fabric. "When you're learning for the first time, practice on fabric remnants. I forgot." Penny picks up her seam ripper. "You will need a seam ripper to fix mistakes."

With what's what out of the way, Penny gets to the threading with demonstrations. "You want to trim the end of the thread with very sharp scissors." Penny cuts the tip of the thread. "That will give it a clean edge when you thread the needle." Penny thinks about how to do the next part. Doing something is one thing. Explaining it is something else all together. "To teach you, I think it would be best to use the double threaded method." Penny threads the needle. "You need to pull the thread through the eye of the needle to the length that you want. You pull the other part of the thread from the spool until both parts are the same length." Penny cuts the thread at the desired length. "When both parts are the same length, you cut it like I just showed you. Now you tie the two ends together." Penny ties the two ends together. The knot is at one end. The needle is at the other end of the loop she made. "Do you want to give that a try before we get to the stitches?"

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1855 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 2:10pm

Macey shrugged: I guess we can. Zoey, you can go first.

Zoey: ok.

The girls each took turns practicing. Zoey took to it quickly as she had really nimble fingers. It took Macey a couple more tries than Zoey but she got it figured out pretty fast too.

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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out

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Reply #1856 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 4:39pm

Penny gives her students a thimble and a fabric remnant to learn with. "I'll show you the backstitch." Penny holds the fabric with her left hand and maneuvers the threaded needle with her right. From underneath, she pushes the needle through the fabric. With the needle halfway through the fabric, Penny moves her right hand to the topside of the fabric and pulls the needle out until the knot on the end of the thread makes contact with the fabric. "Bring your needle up through the back of the fabric until you feel the knot touching the fabric." Penny knows how to sew; she never learned how to teach. She learns how to teach as she teaches. "For the purpose of this lesson, we'll call this Point A." Though she would not make such a large stitch for practical purposes, she does for the purpose of teaching. "Make a one inch stitch by inserting the needle down into the fabric one inch away from Point A." She moves her hand to the underneath of the fabric and pulls the needle out until the thread stops. "Pull the needle out until you feel a tug on the thread or your stitch looks like this one. We will call that Point B. Insert the needle up into the fabric half way between Point A and Point B. Pull the needle up until you feel a tug on the thread. We will call this Point C." The current points as they are in order: A, C, B. They are in a straight line. "Insert the needle down a half-inch from Point B. This will be Point D. The four points need to be in a straight line. After you pull the thread all the way through, you will see that the second stitch will halfway overlap the second. From underneath the fabric you will push the needle through Point B, pull it all the way up until you feel a tug on the thread. Insert the needle down a half an inch from Point D. Make sure the new point is in the same straight line with the other points. After you pull it through you will see that the three stitches you made are one inch long, the second stitch halfway overlaps the first stitch and the third stitch halfway overlaps the second stitch."

A__B
C__D
B__E

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1857 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 9:00pm

Macey and Zoey watched and eventually tried it themselves. Zoey was thrilled to learn something new. Macey was glad to as well but tried to look disinterested for the most part. Penny didn't seem to pay attention either way as she was more focused on trying to teach.

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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1858 - Dec 30^th, 2016, 9:16pm

Val and Maribelle were delayed as group of sheep herders were taking their flock to market. Val had to do a double take as to seeing what the sheep look like.

"You never seen sheep before?" Maribelle asks.

"I know what sheep look like. I'm wondering how long this is going to take." Val tells her, lying of course as she never seen sheep like this.

"About 5 or 10 minutes.Its not like they are bringing in the whole flock." Maribelle replies.

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #1859 - Dec 31^st, 2016, 11:22am

"Zoey, this must be hard on your mom." Penny says as the girls are sewing.

"What is?" Zoey asks.

"Your mom has help and I'm sure she appreciates that; it still must be difficult to cook for a lot of people in a small kitchen. Now she has to teach women how to cook at the same time dinner has to be on the table.

"In the apartment where Mr. Robinson and I were living we had a bigger kitchen and it was just the two of us."

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