We also left them a check for twenty thousand dollars, to cover the down payment, tax, title registration and DMV fees. We'd just coughed up right at ... hundred thousand dollars for trucks that, to be perfectly candid, were an extravagant indulgence on our part. I felt good, and I could see Rob did too.Sometimes, when a woman finds herself unhappy, she'll go out and buy herself a new hand bag, a dress, or maybe a pair of shoes. Let a man get unhappy, and he'll go out and buy a big, expensive,. " That, and I was her last resort. There are no such things as boarding kennels for kids."Ralph laughed again. "Well, I'm not going to say anything to her when this is over, except that when this is through, I expect to see her and her kids at the non-landed club events."I snickered at that.Sunday supper was the celebration of the end of the volleyball tournament, with the awards given out ("What a cute skunk!" said Cindy, as she saw her sister's individual trophy for "most honest").At the end. Everyone has been working hard to come up with good ideas. You can't fault these young men and women for trying." Maybe it's just my time to go," Ray said."I don't see things that way," Dr. Lincoln said. "I never got the impression that you did, either. What about all those very-old people you told me about — the denizens of the second-rate nursing homes that you rescued from imminent oblivion? Wasn't it their time to go, when you interfered with fate?" Maybe I'm paying the price for that now,". She filled him in on what was happening in the lives of the people that William had known. It was a pleasant visit.Colt had been standing in the hallway and heading towards the door to answer it when he had observed Lucy jump back as if pushed by someone. He had pulled his gun and nearly fired upon the crow and the figure standing behind it. A hair more pressure on the trigger and there would have been a dead bird. He might have been able to stop in time to prevent killing the young.