TEXAS FALL 2 (In The October Fall World) by Boyd Craven III & Boyd Craven Jr. & LA Bayles

Author:Boyd Craven III & Boyd Craven Jr. & LA Bayles [Craven III, Boyd & Craven Jr., Boyd & Bayles, LA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raventhorne Books
Published: 2023-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Frank & Emory

Rice, Texas

November 7th

Day 11

Frank and the new workers on the ranch were putting up a structure. Despite the talk with Emory the day before, Frank wanted to build a smokehouse on the ranch, and he didn’t care if he didn’t have all the right wood. He had plenty of old wood fencing and fence posts all over the place. He even had some four by fours, sixteen feet long, that he had bought a couple of years back to remake his back deck.

He hadn’t quite gotten on that project when a lot of lumber went scarce, so they had sat behind his house under a tarp. Until now.

“This is going up fast,” Emory commented.

“Don’t take much. Just need enough support to carry the roof and a few hundred pounds of meat at a time.”

“You wanted a bigger one though,” Emory pointed out. “You said at least a sixteen by sixteen.”

“I know,” Frank said, “but I figure we’ll need our own sooner or later. Hey, have you heard from the Garcias lately?”

Emory thought back. “Not since the day I talked to Ethan. We mostly talked about things that had happened to us.”

“Yeah, I figured that had to be one of the topics. How about some of us mosey on down when this is done and have us a discussion with them? I know them hippies were going to be doing raised beds and compost bins for them while they expanded on their in-the-dirt stuff.”

“Yeah, I think those raised beds are more for quick growing salad greens and stuff like that. Something for them to have right outside the back door.”

“Think we should build some here?” Frank asked him.

“It wouldn’t hurt. But you don’t exactly have a ton of seeds to plant stuff.”

“I’m just thinking we should all pool our resources, but have redundancies in place,” Frank mused.

“Yes sir, I agree,” Emory said, then saw one of the volunteers give him a thumbs up.

Emory picked up the big four by four and dropped it in the hole that had been dug and then filled with gravel until it had a base. When they backfilled it, they would have nearly three feet of it in the ground. Doing that, and cutting the four by fours down to twelve feet, they would have a little over eight feet above the ground.

“Ideas for the roofing?” he asked.

“We’re grabbing the tin from that old knocked down shed. Strip the meth house if we need to.”

“Yes sir,” Emory said. “How much are we wanting to get done today?”

“I don’t know,” Frank said, and sighed. “I’m riding out and seeing all this food that’s going to go to waste, and not seeing a way of processing it fast enough.”

“There’s enough food here on this street to last us forever, sir,” Emory told him.

“For us, yes, but what about everyone else in Ellis county?”

Emory had nothing to say about that.

~

Brian was in the shooting stand again, taking his turn. He was mostly watching for trouble, but this morning he’d heard snorting, and his heart had raced.

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