penig:It’s Sunday at the Land house. Scot has to work. Everyone else is on hand to take shifts
penig:It’s Sunday at the Land house. Scot has to work. Everyone else is on hand to take shifts at toddler-wrangling and get all the work done. Dixie tends her garden and then sits down to rest and study Lifelong Happiness. Long practice enables her to absorb enlightenment even while Beulah insists on talking to her. Perhaps that even contributes to the clarity she obtains.Dixie can’t live like this forever, but she knows she physically can’t handle a nine-to-five job. She might can manage self-employment, some small business that doesn’t have to be open all the time - but she’s not sure family finances will stretch to the business license and a plat on the highway for a produce stand. (Good Old Virginia’s on the City Council now; maybe she can cut a deal on the cost of that license?) It’s not just the economics of living at home bugging her, either. She wants to see Heath, but she knows better.She wants to see Woody.Yes, Woody is the answer here, if he’ll go for it. No sense waiting around for him to work up the nerve. She calls him up, gets him over, proposes as Scot arrives home (with Michelle the cheerleader, who apparently works at the county extension office?). Perhaps this is a little calculated - Woody’s unvoiced diffidence about getting married will not be strong enough to enable him to say no to marrying Dixie in front of Scot!Everyone is thrilled. (Except Michelle, who is in and out of love with Woody constantly) but she’s quickly sent on her way.) Beulah calls Delta and River. Scot volunteers to make dinner, but the fridge is empty, so he runs down to the General Store, where he runs into Mary and gives her the good news, so of course she comes back with him. Homer is still sleeping off his shift of toddler-wrangling, but Dixie, worn out herself from all the physical, mental, and emotional work she’s put in today, slides into bed beside him and passes the word into his sleeping ear, and he smiles and stirs awake. -- source link