Chapter I

 “So what do you think about Hazzard Elly?” Daisy asked her new cousin as the two of them laid on their beds before going to sleep.
 Not too long before --about five or six months ago Bo and Luke had been in California for a big NASCAR race and had gotten in trouble causing Daisy and Uncle Jesse to come and get them out of it. Wasn’t anything with the law for a change, but rather that Bo had been in a rather serious crash and even though it was bad, now he was back to his old self even if his leg still hurt occasionally, it didn’t stop him, but regardless Uncle Jesse had decided that it was in their best interest to take a break and go back next season.
 However, while they were in California Bo and Luke wound up in Beverly Hills where they had been forced to talk to the bank about where
they would be able to go with their future, not because of the crash necessarily, but just what had been put into their life, which unfortunately left them in the hands of a cruel man by the name of Mr. Drysdale, but luckily for them a certain kind little old lady by the name of Daisy May had reason to talk with him the same time as the boys did and from there the boys had been offered a home until Bo could recover.
 The boys were taken in and treated kindly by all the members of this charming family. Daisy May, who the rest of the family called ‘Granny’ and had insisted that the boys did too, which made them comfortable since it would seem odd to them with her having the same name as their cousin, Jed, who was officially the one in charge and took to the boys and was willing to talk to them if needed, Elly May, his daughter who took to the boys and was more than happy to swim in the ‘cement pond’ with them as doing so would help Bo’s leg heal, even Jethro took to them in his own way.
 The boys had called Uncle Jesse, who immediately decided that he and Daisy were coming up there, even if the boys were in perfectly capable hands. So the next thing they knew their Uncle and cousin were up in California and were taken in by the Clampetts also. Jed and Jesse spent hours talking about farming, their kids and everything else, Daisy and Elly quickly became friends as did Jethro and the boys and then one night it happened. Granny and Uncle Jesse had been out front sitting on one of the benches when suddenly Jesse turned to her and asked her to come back to Georgia with him. At first she was confused when he then mentioned his wife and everything with her dying when the young’uns were young and then he mentioned how even if he had only known her for a few months he felt connected to her somehow and sprung the question reaching out to her the ring that he had given his Martha the first time that he had asked her. She had once told Jesse that he should keep it in a special place because even if she ever died then he should be happy, but of course he had never found anyone like his Martha until now. He knew that Daisy needed someone to look up to even if she was able to take care of herself. Jesse knew that Daisy needed it if he was to ever die. So with every honest good intention of his three young’uns in his heart he asked her to marry him, and of course she said yes. (y’all know Granny wanted a man now she‘s got a pure southern one)
 So not long after the wedding the Clampetts packed up their truck once again moved, but this time to their beloved Dixie, and with a new family.
 So now Daisy and Elly were talking in the room that they now shared
 “Never thought thet Granny would go fer livin’ in Georgia, tho as long as it’s in Dixie she don’t mind.”
 “Well I never thought my Uncle Jesse would get married again neither.” Daisy laughed.
 “Well you sure are lucky to have Bo and Luke fer yer cousins tho Jethro is a heap of fun to wrassle with.”
 “Yeah, but Elly I have to admit that I’m slightly jealous of you havin Uncle Jed for your Pa . . . I didn’t have mine for long. I came to live with Uncle Jesse after they were killed runin’ shine. I know I have so much, but it would’ve been nice.”
 “Well Daisy, my Pa always said thet we just have to make the best of what we got. Uncle Jesse seems to be like a Pa to you and now I have an Uncle and you got a new one too.”
 “Yeah, your right Elly.”
 “Maybe Daisy, but I reckon we ought to get to sleep afore Granny catches us awake.”
 Daisy chuckled. She had to admit that even though Uncle Jesse was similar she hadn’t known someone in her life to beat Granny and agreed. So with that she blew out the kerosene lamp that was on the stand between their beds and both of them huddled down into their beds.