"We need a candle to warm the brandy," Carrie said."Right! I have some! Just a minute," Phil said, jumped up and returned in a few seconds with three ...mall candles. Using a cigarette lighter, flames soon danced from the ends of the candles, and each of them warmed the liquor."To Darrin Cannon," Phil announced. "An artist of extraordinary talent! And to Carrie Cannon, a young lady providing the necessary other talents to make her artist client successful!"They sipped brandy. The dark, warm. Ed sat on the ground tailor fashion with Tiger lying next to him. The initial topic of conversation started with questions about Tiger and how the cat had come to travel with him. That led to a discussion of his family life and the fact that he had a husband and two wives. That topic was sufficient to keep people talking for more than an hour. The sun set and the group was lit by the warm light from the fire. As the stars came out, the conversation changed to the nature of the universe.For the. She thinks that if we can pull this off, that she can then have some clout to open agencies all over the state. She certainly has an office in each of the surrounding six counties. Some of them are kinda small, but she has them."Now, here's the program that Texas is using. They get some kind of report of all the military veterans, and then run it against some federal report that shows mean income for those names. Then they try to match the ones in the lowest income brackets, with available. ”“Ok. By the way ... there’s a guy here in Hector who sells peeled balsam fir poles at seven bucks each.”“You have my card number?”“Yes.”“May I impose?”“You want me to call him?”“Please?”“Hold on.” She hollered, “Zak!”A very faint, What?“Come here.”“How many?”“Fifty four ... sixty would be better. Yeah ... make it 60.”A male voice spoke to Katie, “Yes?”“60 poles for a 22.”“I have that many dry.”“I’ll pay it when she picks them up... 420 bucks.”“Karen?”“Yes?”“Done.”“When you said you’d call ....