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winter. Since then they have been doing the best they could, but were very close to giving up. They say they don’t know if what we are telling them is the truth or not, but they don’t have any other options. We assure them they will be part of a very large family that works to help each other. Jenna and James can’t wait to see what we have done. I am getting a little worried that they will think what we have done is very primitive and criticize our efforts.
    We load the last truck with supplies from the city then head for home. Dayna calls me on the CB, because we are all driving some vehicle, and tells me she has a very strong urge to turn right at the next cross roads. Everyone comes back on the CB that we should turn right at the next crossroads then. We do and within a couple of miles we are pretty sure we have found what we are supposed to. There is a large collection of pre-manufactured homes, on what was once an outdoor showroom for homes. We stop to look at them and Jenna, who is some kind of engineer, says if she had some equipment she could tell if the wood that these homes are made of is safe. I tell her I can do that without any special equipment. We walk into one of the homes and I jump up and down on the floor. I don’t fall through so I assume it is safe to live in.
    James, who is a nuclear physicist or something like that, has been studying everything we go near. He says what we have guessed, but coming from him it means more because he knows what he is talking about. Ever since we found them he has been asking us questions about the homes we found here and about the buildings where we came from. He has also noticed the same thing we did about the cars and trucks. There is almost no rust on any of them, even though they have been out in the weather for almost thirty years. We are going through some of the houses to see if we think we can get them back to our settlement. There are three tractors for eighteen wheel trucks on the lot with the twenty houses here. As far as we can see they are solid enough to move them, we will just have to figure out how to accomplish that.
    We are only about fifteen miles from home, so we make sure we know how to get back and finish our journey. As soon as we are close enough to raise the base stations at home we let them know we are on our way and that we have six trucks full of supplies and seven new family members. The twins must be with Tim because we hear their little voices asking if any of the new family members are their age. Dayna tells them that there are three young people within a year or two of being the same age, so they will have some new playmates. Tina and Tammy are excited about that, especially when they hear that one of the little girls is the same age, and is named Tina also. We spend the rest of the journey telling Tim and the others about our adventures.
    When we pull into the yard the twins, accompanied by Zeus and a couple of his brothers and sisters, are right here to welcome us back. It feels so good to have the girls jump into my arms and tell me how much they missed me. Our new friends are not sure how to take the dogs, but they are so friendly that the children wind up playing with them in no time. As I said, I am afraid that what we have accomplished will seem pretty primitive to James and Jenna. They come walking up kind of sheepishly because of the crowd that is beginning to form around us. I can see they are looking around and talking to each other. I can even see them pointing out different things so I work my way over to them with Robin, Melissa, Tim, Ken, and Billy. I introduce everyone then tell them we will be happy to give them a tour, but we would like to get at least some of the supplies put away.
    As we do with all the supplies we bring back we take them into the large meeting building we have and lay everything out so we can see what kind of treasures we have. By the time the first two trucks are unloaded the rest of our family is