A Christmas Wedding — No Shotguns!

R’s best friend P, wearing a beard of baby bib decorated with cotton balls. Christmas spirit, right?

How much split wood can you fit into the back of a Subaru wagon? One-third of a cord, if you leave the hatch door up.

[This is “Country” number 6!]

After all, we’d come to the mountains of Vermont with “gear” acquired in the (somewhat smaller) hills of New Jersey. And in 1978, in New Jersey, we’d traded our four-door sedan (R’s mother’s idea of what a growing family should…

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Braiding loss, joy, love. Award-winning author of YA adventures like This Ardent Flame; The Long Shadow, more. bethkanell.blogspot.com; member SinC, NBCC.

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BethKanell

Braiding loss, joy, love. Award-winning author of YA adventures like This Ardent Flame; The Long Shadow, more. bethkanell.blogspot.com; member SinC, NBCC.