It was 65 degrees in Periwinkle County today. It was sunny. Redbud and dogwood and persimmon trees were showing buds. Young women and old men were wearing shorts.
The Brothers Jim were disconcerted, however, precisely because it was so beautiful. They wanted to be out planting aprisimmons, their new hybrid, but everybody in the county, or so it seemed, borrowed a dog so they could come to Buddy Mutts to eat, so they were stuck inside cooking Lentil Surprise.
The Jims thought they could clear the lunch crowd out fast by playing a DVD of "Glen Beck's Best Thoughts," but it was so short nobody noticed it was on. Instead Ben "Seymour" Bottoms showed up with his penny whistle, and Randall Nathan with his ukelele, and everyone stayed around to sing Irish songs, just in case anyone died before tomorrow.
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