From the journal of Nathan Sanchez, May 7

May 7, 2017

I think the older generation is starting to come around to the need for fresh blood to be brought in for us. We have all been talking about it for days around the ranch and even Consuela is starting to soften her positition. Especially, since her own daughters are not married and if she wants grandchildren, they are going to need a man who is not related to them. And, believe me, even in the times we are in, she wants grandchildren.
The surveillance of the building supply place is almost done. No one has gone in or out since we started watching it, so I think we are going to hit it in the next couple of days. There are still a lot of supplies in the yard and the store is still full. We should be able to get everything we need to build the greenhouse and other supplies to help in the defense of the ranch. Fernando is maping out our plan and is going to go over the plan with the rest of the teams tonight or tomorrow. Then,we'll have to get everything we need to make the hit together and then we hit the place.
Darren and I have been helping out around here while we waiting for the surveillance to be done, making the changes to make us more secure. Diego has a lot of ideas about ways to make the ranch safer. He wants to build a wall and plant some kind of fast growing vine on it to make it look like it has been there since before the pandemic started. We'll have to look at the seeds we have and see if we have anything that will work for him.

Darren also has us all collecting and saving the glass bottles we have around here to make broken glass for the top of ihis wall and for putting in strategic places around the ranch, like between trees and bushes on the outskirts of our protected zones. He says the bigger the pieces the better the chance of going through someones shoes and stop them from walking in any further. He also has us to dig trenches that we can line with the broken glass and then cover over with thin branches and a light coating of dirt, so it still looks like the ground around it, and then when someone steps on it, BOOM! Down they go, hopefully all full of holes and glass.

He has other ideas, too. Some of them are a little out there, but we will probably try almost anything if it sounds like a good idea.
Time to go dig trenches.

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