Saving Shiloh
“We go back to school on Monday, the TV talking three inches of snow, but by the time the bus lets us off that afternoon, it’s five or six, and still comin’ down.
“We gonna be snowed in!” Dara Lynn crows happily, dropping her coat on the floor.
Becky looks worried, but Dara Lynn grabs her hands and dances her round and round the kitchen, tellin’ her how we might not have to go to school for a whole week. Then Shiloh gets into the act, skidding around the linoleum, his toenails clickin’ and scratchin’.
“Well, I sure wish I’d got extra milk,” says Ma. “I can always make bread, and I’ve got beans and salt pork enough for an army, but there’s not much substitute for milk.”
“We can always put snow on our cereal!” says Dara Lynn, laughing.
Ma decides to get in the spirit of things, too, so she gets out her valentine cookie cutter, and she and the girls make cookies while I carry in wood for the little potbellied stove in the living room. Our house has a furnace, but it don’t work if the elec...tricity goes out, so a couple years back Dad put in the potbellied stove.MoreLess
“We gonna be snowed in!” Dara Lynn crows happily, dropping her coat on the floor.
Becky looks worried, but Dara Lynn grabs her hands and dances her round and round the kitchen, tellin’ her how we might not have to go to school for a whole week. Then Shiloh gets into the act, skidding around the linoleum, his toenails clickin’ and scratchin’.
“Well, I sure wish I’d got extra milk,” says Ma. “I can always make bread, and I’ve got beans and salt pork enough for an army, but there’s not much substitute for milk.”
“We can always put snow on our cereal!” says Dara Lynn, laughing.
Ma decides to get in the spirit of things, too, so she gets out her valentine cookie cutter, and she and the girls make cookies while I carry in wood for the little potbellied stove in the living room. Our house has a furnace, but it don’t work if the elec...tricity goes out, so a couple years back Dad put in the potbellied stove.MoreLess
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