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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 177534" data-attributes="member: 130">Ellie walks into the kitchen to find Pamela and Anne cooking and Sue Ellen more or less watching.  “What is it about this family and the women cooking.”“We enjoy it,” Anne says.  “Well at least you just sit and watch, Sue Ellen.”“I help here and there.”Pamela says, “Sue Ellen’s been at work all day.”  “At work?”  “The Ewing Foundation.”  “You should join me Ellie.  I mean it would give you something to do.”“I have plenty to do.  Just because I don’t weigh myself down with a job or kids, doesn’t mean I don’t keep busy.  I’ll be in Morocco tomorrow for a birthday of a friend and the in D.C. for another friend’s fundraiser and then in California for another’s way off broadway show opening.  When would I have time for a job?”  “I must say you and John Ross have a lot of friends,” Pamela says on her way out.  “Where are you going now?”“To check on the babies.”“That’s another thing.  With three babies, you’re up to your elbows in diapers.  Can’t you at least employee someone for that job?”  Anne laughs, “Ellie, she loves taking care of her children, and I’m here to help and John Ross, and you’ll find Bobby changing a diaper or two.”The house phone rings. “That’s disgusting.”  The phone stops ringing. “I’ll agree with you there,” Sue Ellen laughs.  A house keeper walks in and whispers to Anne and leaves.  Anne’s face turned worried.  Sue Ellen asks, “What is it?”  “They just let Elena up.”  Sue Ellen stands. “I’ll go and warn Pamela.”  Ellie says.  “I go and greet our guest.”  Outback Elena pulls up in a black Bentley convertible.   Ellie stands laughing.  “You realize how silly you look behind the wheel of that car don’t you?”  “I’m here to see my son.”  “I’ve been told.  You run off and hide in Mexico, abandoning him here and now you just think you can show up and pretend to be momma for a few minutes.”“My lawyers are working on getting me full custody.”“Oh because living with you as opposed to living here would be in the best interests of the child?”  “Mind your own business Ellie.”“This family is my business.”A Southfork truck pulls up behind them.  “Oh I guess the whole family has to show up while I sit with my child.”  “You think anyone here trusts you?”John Ross and Bobby hop out of the truck.  John Ross said, “You said you’d be by today.  I expected you earlier.”  “I was at the office earlier.”  “That’s right I heard you’re working for Trident.”“And I guess you work the ranch now.  Who’d have guessed you’d end up here?”“I just help out Uncle Bobby from time to time.““Ewing’s don’t really work,” Ellie says but no one listens.  Instead Elena and John Ross seem locked in a stand off.  Pamela walks out with a nearly one year old baby boy holding tight to her.  Anne and Sue Ellen stand behind her as if guarding her.  “You can sit out here with him.”  Elena’s face lights up as she walks over and takes her child with everyone looking on.  Harris and Bo eat dinner together out in a light and airy restaurant.  Harris says, “I feel like we should be talking about my horses.”  “You do have an impressive string of horses.”“They’re my mother’s actually.  You should see the ones she took to Virginia with her.”“Would it make you feel more comfortable if I told the waitress I was your vet?”  “Dear god no.  So tell me, how do you like living at Southfork?”“Well I do have a business back in Florida I need to return to.  My partner is doing everything while I hang out here.  Though I must say, there’s a lot of work to keep me busy. And they have a great many associates with animals to look in on.  There’s something you never answered for me.   Why do you work for them.  You’re obviously not found of them.  You don’t need the money.  You don’t seem to have any sentimental feelings about your father’s business.  What’s the allure?”“In the past I’ve associated with some very questionable customers, when I was in the shopping business.  Clients of my father’s.  It’s a rather long list.  Took me a long time to grow a company healthy enough to leave them behind.  And the Ewing’s, they held that over me.  So did the government before that.”“And now?”“Now?  Now I run one of the nation’s largest private businesses.  My name may not be on the door, but people know who they’re dealing with.”“The guy who got away with dealing with criminals.  The son of Senator Brown.  You haven’t told me much about your mother.”  “She makes my father look like a Boy Scout.”“Do tell.”“Oh god not here.”Bo laughs. John Ross strips down to boxers for bed as Pamela exits the bathroom in a silk night gown.  “I still say we’re better off just working out a compromise.  I don’t want Drew living off Southfork anymore than necessary.  That poor kid is going to suffer his whole life because of that woman.  Just give her what she wants and move on.”“I have no intention of any such thing.  I’ll tell you the game plan but I need you to just accept it.”   They slide into bed.“Go ahead.”“Dorian has a fondness for, well a certain place that Judith Brown is aware of.   It’s a place where a man, or woman I suppose, can buy the sort of experience they want.  Sex offenders don’t get courts to grant physical custody in their house.”“Legal custody?”“Elena abandoned her child.  She was found guilty in absence.  Pardon or no pardon she was found guilty.   Visitation is our compromise.”“Supervised.”“Agreed.   Now stop worrying.  Everything is taken care of.”  He kisses her lips softly.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?