Bank Heist Part One

 It was a quiet day on the streets of the town.  (Name?  Still working on it.  Serenity- taken.  Whitewash city – taken.  Badgerville?)  Sheriff Gordon West was walking the streets, and all was well.  Miss Steffie was across the street, trying to drum up some business for her ‘baths’ by showing some leg.  The old prospector Julius was cackling out front of the saloon.

Oh, that’s why.  Preacher Blair was up on the balcony of the hotel, practicin’ his Sunday sermon.  Yep, all was right in the world, until Sheriff West turned the corner.

  Standing in front of the bank were 2 banditos, armed for bear!  Sheriff West recognized the surly outlaw with the rifle, it was none other than Juan Herrera.  Side-kick and right-hand man to the notorious villain Jake Rodriguez!  It had to be a bank heist.

Sheriff West didn't have time to waste.  He figured to draw down on Juan, order him to drop the rifle.  But the dice sometimes roll just the right way…  Instead of a warning shot, West drilled Juan right through the middle!  There goes the gangs heavy firepower, groanin and moanin in the street!  (Not the most sporting start.  Sheriff didn't exactly follow the code of the west there.  But it was an amazing shot at long range…)

 Well, now the alarm has been raised.  The rest of the gang starts boiling out of the bank, carrying heavy bags of gold loot.  Young Chad Hansen, left on guard outside with Juan, starts running in the wrong direction.  You idiot!  We stashed the horses on the other edge of town!

Deputy Kurt Fields was hanging out in the Sheriff’s office with his two buddies Lucas Estrada and Jody Hall.  Kurt grabbed his double-barrel shotgun, Lucas his rifle, and Jody checked that both 6-guns were loose in his holsters.  The shot told them something was up.  Popping out of the office, Kurt and Jody headed straight up the street while Lucas decided to flank to the left.  This was a fateful decision for Lucas…

 Sheriff West also realized that moving right down Main street wasn’t the wisest choice.  Knowing his deputy was alerted, he decided to race around back of the hotel and come up behind the bank.  But what’s this?  Preacher Blair has raced into the middle of the street, speechifying at the top of his lungs about the evils of murder.  Right out in the middle like that he’s spoiling everybody’s shots!  Doc McCarthy (out of view) had been playing poker with the deputies and walks out front to see the show.

But what of our other civilians?  The Barkeeper and the Prospector are just watching for now, but Miss Steffie has to get involved.  She rushes up to Lucas as he tries to flank the outlaws.  Using her feminine wiles, and bountiful cleavage, she convinces Lucas that the Sheriff will be fine without him.  Lucas decides it’s time for a bath.

And they head away from the fight.

Bank Heist Part 2

 Meanwhile, back at the bank…  Head outlaw Jake Rodriguez leads the way back to the horses, carrying a heavy bag of gold.  That’s the other new kid, Willie Hubbard, right behind him.  Their brute, Dewey Medina, leaned his rifle around the corner of the bank.  Until he dumped that bag of loot on somebody else, though, he wasn’t going to have a shot.  That dang preacher-man was in the way, too.  Being outlaws, they ignored Juan groaning in the dirt.  Chad finally turns around and runs the right way.

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Deputy Fields and Jody Hall still try to dodge around Preacher Blair.  “Violence solves nothing!” he cries.  Doc McCarthy runs forward to help the downed man.

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Nobody notices Sheriff West.  He grew up in this town, and knows every alley and byway.  He moves rapidly forward…

Surprise! As the gang re-distributes the loot and Dewey guards the back door, Sheriff West rushes them from the side.

Boom!  He just takes a nick out of Willie.

 Blam!  The preacher finally moves out of Dewey’s way and he shoots down Deputy Fields.  Doc McCarthy now switches to the nearest wounded man.

 Hey, Lucas, want to join us?  Oh, never mind, you’re still busy.

 Doc starts patching up Deputy Fields.

It’s a gunfight behind the bank!  Chad wings the Sheriff, just enough to knock him down.  Willie is back up and running for the horses, with everybody following.

But Jody won’t let them get away!  They just shot his friend!  Jody carries two pistols for a reason, and used them both.  One missed Chad, but the other…

Bank Heist Part 3

 …headshots Willie! A gruesome death, there is no hope for him.  That rattles the gang a bit.

 Oh Lucas, remember him?  Hearing the gunfire, he tears away from Miss Steffie and finally moves to the fight.

 Doc has patched up Deputy Fields, and moves towards wounded Juan.  The preacher tries to stop the Deputy.  “You tell ‘em I’m coming, Preacher!” roared Deputy Fields.  “And Hell’s comin’ with me!”  (The deputy isn’t named Kurt just by chance…)

 Sheriff West is back on his feet and it’s a 4-way gun battle as Outlaw Jake tries to sneak away.  (Hey, he is a bad guy)

 And it’s another triple-kill.  Sorry, Dewey.

You know, maybe they don’t need me in the fight anyhow…

Jody guns down Jake!  The leader is killed!  Time for a morale check.

Against the odds, Dewey passes all 3 morale checks.  Then he gets a triple-activation to boot.  Grabbing one of the blood-soaked bags of gold, he makes a break for it.  But just a few steps later the Sheriff shoots him in the leg.

Final tally?  2 wounded & captured outlaws, 3 dead-right-there.  All loot recovered.  A smashing success for Sheriff West and his boys.  All but one, that is.

Yep.  Still talking about that bath…

This is a test

Never mind.  Test failed.

more frustrating in cab screenshots

If anybody actually still reads this, let me know.  I'll stop posting drek and actually post content.

Capitols

This one is for you Barb.

How my wife teaches geography to our son:

"What's the capitol of Massachusetts?"
"I don't know, Mom"
"What's the worst baseball team in the world?"
"Oh! Boston!"

Budweiser Super Bowl XLVIII Commercial -- "Puppy Love"

New Long Rifle game

Miles and I got in one more game today.  Someday I will turn this into the official game blog...

working hard to make it home...

Just another random picture

Just a quick shot to post in another forum, too lazy to post on the other site. 

A couple of short video shots for your pleasure

Okay, both of these are going to post funny because the f*ing phone shows you one view while recording in another.  And you can't get a free video converter that doesn't try to install 16 kinds of crap malware.

So anyway, until I learn to only hold my phone sideways no matter what the video screen says, here is a couple cute shots of Helen:

First up, this is Halloween BEFORE trick-or-treating.  This is how wound up she was before even starting:

And then a couple days later, after the sugar rush had worn off.  I'm working in the garage, she asks to "ride her bike".  Now mind you, I took her training wheels off 1 month ago, at her insistence.  She fell off 10 times and then didn't touch the bike since.  This is what happened when she picked the bike up on her own 1 month later:

Happy Halloween

Helen as R2D2 and Miles as Cad Bane from Star Wars the Clone Wars Cartoon.    Happy Halloween.

2013 School Pictures

                                                               The Kindergartener

                                                                    Miles the 5th Grader

Honestly,  I don't know where the time goes, it seems like yesterday I was posting Helen's first baby pictures.
I have some great looking kids. 

Johnny Appleseed Returns

This was Helen's project during Primary centers on Friday September 20, 2013.  I think she sports it very well.  Long live Johnny Appleseed.   

Cuteness Overload!

Warning!  The following contents have been proven to produce a cuteness overload, at least in proud Daddies!

Helen was sent home with her first pile of crap delighful homework from kindergarten today.  Let's see what she produced:

This was a picture of the family.  That's Dad on the left, then Helen, then Miles, then Mommy on the right.  Apparently Mommy is pregnant!  When asked if it was the dog on her lap, she said, "No, he was outside peeing when the picture was taken..."

Next up was spell the state where you live.  Helen must have listened to former Governor Schwartzenneger for pronunciation:

How about this for an assignment?

Heck, I couldn't keep up with that!

Here is the result:  I see a tree, a yellow sun, so the pink dinosaur on the left must be my daughter?

My daughter is a pink dinosaur...

USS Midway June 26,2013 San Diego CA

Hopefully this link works and everyone can see these photos. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200856518634224.1073741826.1202015986&type=1&l=bf91980a72

We had a great time in San Diego with my folks.  Miles had fun climbing aboard a real jet.

Poopy Pooch

Poopy Pooch

My baby is growing up

While we were camping this past weekend over Memorial Day, Helen the barely 5 year old decided she wasn't going to be out done by her big brother(who lost a baby tooth early Sunday morning), and lost her first baby tooth a couple of hours after Miles lost his tooth.  She's getting too big too fast.  Luckily, the tooth fairy was prepared and left each of them one dollar for their teeth.   I don't think the tooth fairy has ever had to visit while camping.    She was very excited, and couldn't believe the tooth fairy was going to come and visit her in our trailer where we were camped.  The next morning when she found the dollar, she was even more excited.  As Miles is almost finished losing his baby teeth, it is going to be fun watching Helen as she loses hers. 

Helen's 5th Birthday

                                                    

   Helen and her preschool friend Gavin Martin celebrating Helen's 5th birthday at Chuck E Cheese.  A good time was had by all, more pictures to follow later.