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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevew" data-source="post: 106479" data-attributes="member: 130">John Ross, Lucas and Colin walk in the barn, dusty, warm out and laughing.  “So is ranching all you thought it’d be?”“I gotta say, it’s a bit more work than ridding horses.”“Sure is,” Lucas says.  “I tell ya having an in house vet is gonna come in handy.  Course in all your practice you never saw 500 patients in one day.”“No and I’ve got a lot of work to do if I’m going to specialize in cattle.  I was looking into Texas A and M.  About a three hour drive.” “We can fly you down there half the time, unless John Ross’s AgustaWestland then probably a third or less.” John Ross says, “We’ll see.  You went to Cornell.  Can’t imagine you need much more.”  “Well it’d be a bovine specialty.” John Ross pats him on the back.  What ever you need.”“So What was this at breakfast this morning about Ellie going to Lake Superior to check on a summer property?”“I’ve got hunting lodge up there in a club and a neighboring property came up for sale.”  “So she’s head all the way up there to check on it.”“She’ll be back for dinner.” “She travels an awful lot.”John Ross laughs.  “That’s my girl.  I’ve got a few houses she’s responsible for.” “A few?”“Like?”“Well Southfork and the place in Northern Michigan.  And a beach house near Galveston. I bought that for your mother years ago.  And an island in the Caribbean Ellie found and talked me into.  And your mother’s house in Switzerland where she raised you.”“That was yours?”“I bought for her.  I’ve never seen it.”“What about that penthouse in New York City I saw you at when you were up like five years ago?”“That’s a company apartment.  There’s a bunch of those all over the country.” “Must be nice.”“I think I’d rather just stay here.  Well and hunting up in Michigan.”  Lucas says, “Yeah you’ll have to come up with us next time.  The whole family goes.”“I can’t see Ellie hunting.”“I said they go up, not that they hunt.” Ellie looks over a rustic lodge in the hard woods of Northern Michigan.  A man says with a heavy accent, “The house you’re looking for?”“My father does like them rustic.”“Very much out of the way.”“Yes.  So to business.  Your people in Dagestan, payments been covered for them.”“By who?”“You don’t really need to know, do you?”“And what are we getting?”“The weapons are all old Soviet crap.  I have a cache near by with some people who’ve up graded them.  They’re part of the deal to train your people.  In and out.”“Alright.”She hands him a paper.  “This piece of land I want access to.”“For what?  Oil industries bottomed out.  Gas price is too low to keep operations up.  Coal is worthless.”“There are other minerals.  I’ll put the money in the account.  You put the land in your name.” “Yes.”“You’ve been in contact with your counterpart in Tatarstan and Tuva?”“Yes I have.  Your country’s sewing the seeds of discontent will bear fruit in the very near future.” “You won’t be alone.  The people inside will instruct you on strategy, both for your assignment and your retirement.  You and your family won’t regret it.” Charlotte and Paul sign some papers with Vicktor.  Charlotte takes them and organizes them.  “That’s that.  Lone Star Investments.  He Ewing’s have spent decades trying to destroy the Wendell’s, framing our father, stealing West Star, now holding Jolie hostage.  They’re escaped prison and gotten away with murder.  Someone has to finally stop them.”Viktor says, “And now they’re bankrupting my country with cheat natural gas for Europe.  No.  They need to know what it feels like to suffer.” “And they will.” The Ewing’s gather in the living room.  John Ross passing out prints, Lucy recounting the fight between JR and Ray where they almost burned down the house.  Lucas sits and plays cards with Jolie by the window.  Steven comes in with Alex and Pamela’s boys laughing about their game of pool.  Karin follows laughing how they all stood around watching Steven clear the table. Pamela is the last to enter the room.  She sits next to Lucy.  Lucy says, “I want you to take my grandmother’s seat at the table tonight.”“What?  Why?”“Jack and Amy are on their way and we’ll have twelve.  I’d rather sit in the middle of one side and you should be there.  It’s what she’d want.  I mean if she new Digger’s granddaughter had married her grandson.”“John Ross and I have separate bedrooms.  Separate lives.”“Yet you still can’t bring yourself to divorce him.” “Don’t play match marker Lucy.”“If I was, I’d set you next to each other not as far apart as possible.” Jack and Amy come in next.  “Well daddy, I hear the cowboys might be fore sale.”“I’m not about to get into owning a pro sports team.”“I bet you would if Ellie brought it up.”“Well your sister’s hard to say no to.  Kinda like facing off with a grizzly.”“Did you just compare me to a bear?” Ellie asks.  “A sable maybe.  Defiantly not a bear.”Jack says, “We’re talking about your bite.”“Oh. I think more a blue ringed octopus.”Lucy speaks up, “Oh, that reminds me.  I have Erick planting lavender out side your window tomorrow, all along there.”Ellie gives her a dirty look. Paul says to Charlotte over a dinner just between the two of them, “I don’t think we can trust Viktor.”“You just run Lone Star day to day. Let me take care of the rest.”“We might share a common enemy but that doesn’t mean he’s on our side.”“Just keep your family away from Texas and we’ll be fine.”“What about Jolie?”“The Ewing’s have her under lock and key.”Out back of Southfork John Ross smokes a cigar.  Karin approaches him in the dark.  “Little lady let you out?”“Don’t start Karin.”“She got you so worked up you taken to smoking to relax.”“Something like that.” “Why don’t you come back to the cottage with me?  I can help you relax.”“Where you been for dinner.”“Lucy thought it best I not attend dinner with the family.  She sends something out to me.”“I suppose she’s right.”“You deserve someone to help you when you’re stressing out . . .  Somethings up.  You got this place locked down tight.  Though I gotta say I’ve liked looking at some of your security.  One of them, I can’t remember his name, helped me with putting a valence back up in the cottage.  Nice how he could stretch up and fix it.”“They don’t belong in your place.”“It’s not gonna hurt anything.  I was just looking.  Maybe a bit of playful touching.”“Karin.”“John Ross.”  In the early morning John Ross meets in his study with Mateo, Juan Carlos and Amy.   Amy assures them the pressure is in the EPA and the methane extraction will go through. Paul sits at his desk in his high rise office with a view of the sun riding over Dallas.  His secretary shows in three agents, “Mr. Wendell, I’m so sorry,” she attempts to explain.The lead agent says, “SEC.  we have some concerns regarding Billcore and some unfinished business with the West Star books.” “I received a full pardon over anything related to West Star.   That’s done and over.”“It maybe, but the European Securities Commission is asking for our cooperation on this mater.” “Ask away.  I wasn’t running West Star at the time.  So honestly there’s nothing there to find.  As for Billcore, everything was legal and proper so your witch hunt may begin but I assure you, you’ll get no where.”“It’s been my experience, where there’s smoke there’s fire.”“Quaint.”Charoltte and Peter get into a private plan.  The plane takes off.  The plan noes dives into the ground and explodes.</blockquote>

Verification: What month follows July?