A Home of Our Own Page #4

---

if you can call canvas tarps

a roof and old boards walls.

- [Annie] Bye, bye tumbleweed.

(sawing)

(hammering)

- Turn which way?

- [Kids] This way.

- Okay.

Okay.

- Here it comes.

(squeals, yelping)

- Yay! ! (clapping)

- [Shayne] Mama traded our

tires for some furniture.

Mr. Moon wanted the name

of the guy who bought them.

He said he wanted proof

that he wasn't the only fool in town.

(thud, clattering)

- So what do you know how to do?

- I work.

I've done it all my life.

I work.

I learn fast and I do my share and more.

- Yeah, well, I do need another waitress.

- Then you got one.

- Minimum wage.

Tips are your own and they

ain't much in a town like this.

- I'll manage. I always do.

- I bet you do.

- This here's Norman, my manager.

- You'll be working under me.

- I'll be working for you.

Frances.

- Frances.

- [Shayne] I tried to get any job I could.

I wasn't particular, as

long as I could make money.

I finally got work at a dairy.

I don't know who hated it more,

me or the cows.

(hammering)

(sawing)

- [Mr. Moon] Give me a hand, Lynn.

- [Annie] Hey, hey, Mr. Moon's here.

- [Mr. Moon] Thanks.

- What are you up to, Mr. Moon?

- You see...

I had all these spare window glass.

A man with a greenhouse

keeps plenty on hand.

I used some of your wood.

Glazed windows.

And now I'm ready to put them in.

- I don't have the money to

pay you for this, Mr. Moon.

- Well...

I'm not doing this for

the money, Mrs. Lacey.

I do well enough

with the nursery.

- Well, I want an accounting of your time

and the cost of your materials

so I can give you an I.O.U.

I don't like owing anybody,

but you backed me into a corner.

And I'd appreciate it

a whole hell of a lot

if you let me know next

time you decide to help out.

(fowl clucking)

(fowl clucking)

- [Shayne] Mama had promised

I'd do all Mr. Moon's chores,

so I didn't have much choice.

But running his tractor was fun,

and that's how I learned to drive.

- Hi.

Hello.

- How does that look, Craig?

- Pretty good.

- [Shayne] You want to sleep on the roof?

- [Murray] I want that room.

Mom, can I have my own bathroom?

- [Faye] Can I have a pink princess phone?

- [Murray] Mom, can I

have my own bathroom?

- [Frances] Yes.

- [Shayne] School was coming up

so when the hand-me-downs were out,

the church basement was

our department store.

This wasn't so bad.

It was all we knew.

- Lynn, what do you think?

- It's beautiful.

You should get it.

- [Annie] Mama.

- Oh, no, honey.

- [Lynn] Annie.

- Lacey tribe.

We need galoshes for winter.

You've never seen winter, have you, Annie?

- Nope.

- Help her pick out a pair, Lynn.

Craig.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes