Lifting the Sky (2009)
“I should’ve suspected something was up when I came down off the hill and found Mam practicing roping. She’d made a steer’s head out of a tin can stuck on a stick and jammed into a hay bale. After supper she whipped up a batch of fresh, hot, melt-in-your mouth peanut butter cookies, handed me two, and packed the rest into a sack. But my head was so full of what Shawn and I had talked about on the hill that somehow none of this set off alarm bells.
So I was caught totally off guard when, firs...t thing the next morning, Mam spouted out, “We’re branding today.”
I clomped my elbows on the table and screwed up my face.
“I didn’t tell you last night,” she said as she spooned out three bowls of oatmeal and put one on the floor. “I knew you wouldn’t sleep if I did.”
“Yuck,” I muttered. In my head I was screeching, No way! I’ve got plans! The beavers have gotten ahead of me—I’ve got dams to undo!MoreLess
So I was caught totally off guard when, firs...t thing the next morning, Mam spouted out, “We’re branding today.”
I clomped my elbows on the table and screwed up my face.
“I didn’t tell you last night,” she said as she spooned out three bowls of oatmeal and put one on the floor. “I knew you wouldn’t sleep if I did.”
“Yuck,” I muttered. In my head I was screeching, No way! I’ve got plans! The beavers have gotten ahead of me—I’ve got dams to undo!MoreLess
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