The Septagon

        Lucky looked straight ahead, he knew that old seven corner house had been close to their position, dared not to call up, Map 1953, or even think about it.  Vogt, looking at the seven corner house overlay,"I remember going on a field trip to one",
"that would'a been the old settlers village in park", lucky shook his head in nervous disappointment "smashed to pieces, the combine rebellion, those bots threw some low punches".
"Are there any examples I could tour". Lucky saw his opening to divert the questioning, "I think you can arrange ta go through one down around Edwards", and tried to change the subject, "you know, those Amish still drive around in horse and buggies".  Vogt seemed to take the bait, "yes, the M-corp file on that population is thin, not something we like to admit, but their refusal or should I say inability to be infected is troubling".  The auger wagon had roared up and was turning around behind the combine, positioning the low side of the wagon towards lucky.  Vogt watching for the right moment to hop out, said one last thing, "I'd like to know who lived here back in fifties, maybe they're still around?"  And he opened the door to a great rush of sound,wind,and dust, leaving Lucky trying to layer the calm.

Santa stirs up trouble with toy deployment.

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 This is the Santa that visited our house in the middle of the night.  

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 A few of the toys he left mounted a coup attempt, that battle was a messy affair.

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One side eventually came out victorious,  but the clean up operation was perhaps the biggest battle of the war.

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The declaration of peace.

House broken pets need new home.

     Patricia Piccinini's family dog had passed on, and they were heart broken.  She had an Idea, not a clear one but a general Idea of what she wanted to do.  The dog went into the deep freeze and Patricia dove deep into the science of  molecular cloning.  After two weeks had went, she realised that molecular cloning was going to take longer to master than she had thought and began looking for a faster way of bringing the family pet back from the dead.  Fortunately she had amassed a sizable horde of science publications, and had been grazing though them waiting for an idea, when she saw an ad for a do it yourself genetic cloning kit.  She immediately sent for it and started the process as soon as it arrived. 

      Everybody was excited to see their new pet develop in the gestation chamber, but something abnormal for a canine gestation period was happening.  At the time which they should've all seen a puppy take shape, the fetus was still in development, the family still meticulously tended the the tank and watched three more month's.  The birth, came when Patricia noticed the gestation tank bumping across the kitchen floor, (they kept the tank in a kitchen closet by the water heater) she then started the process of raising the little imp.       Over the years she has accrued quite a house full of the things as they breed asexually.  Patricia surmised it was her skills at house keeping that had resulted in some of the dogs DNA mixing or rather had been mistakenly spliced with someone from her family. 

     

   

A condo board would fix this in a jiffy.

Apparently the city Nuremburg had briefly employed Albrect Dürer as a municipal ordinance officer, and the lawn and pond at this property was so flagrantly unkempt, he painted them a picture as proof such a heinous  crime could be committed. 

A large pet collection.

Liu Di's Giant pet monkey is still better than a pet snake, a house full of cats, or a bait shop run out of your basement.