(sue) Thomas, I must go, but thank you for your time and starting the TSA list. Many good things have flowed from your efforts!(Mindy) Anne-Mal, did y...u promise Thomas a bale of hay for being here today?(TH) *Grins at Mindy*(*Anne-Mal) With your budget Mom, all I could do is just promise! What are some of your favorite books?(TH) Oh! Now I have to confess, eh? Only one of them is TF-related. ;)"The Egghead Republic" by Arno Schmidt. (and all by him in fact.) If you can find it, get it.Anything. She learned he had taken the rifle during one of his trips back to work and had pawned it for $75. Graydon spent the rest of that day alone, hiking as far up Wolf Creek as the snows would let him go, where he sat on a fallen log, alone in the timber, and wondered to himself how a man could steal from his own family. It took a month and a small miracle, but somehow Dee Johns and Graydon were able to scrape together the money and they redeemed it. Alex Sr. never spoke of it, erupting in anger. As the sun came up, I had to concentrate more on the road and the rapidly growing traffic. It was becoming obvious that we would be almost two hours earlier than we needed to be and I was hungry. I pulled off the road at a small roadside coffee shop. The change in the motion of the car woke Jennifer. She sat up, rubbing her eyes, and looked around.“Where are we?” she asked.“About a half hour out,” I answered, “how about some breakfast?”“I guess,” she said, glancing at the dash clock, “we. They seemed to slow down as they got closer until I looked beside me to see this big 18 wheeler truck pull ap along side me and I looked up at the cab to see the driver winding down the window before sticking his head out to say hi.I said hi back and was about to start walking when he asked if I wanted a lift anywhere and I thought for a moment before saying yes. I asked if he could drop me off at the bus station about 12 miles away.He said that would be no problem and he opened the door and I.