Judging by the way she picked up the few pointers he provided on the drive over, she was sharp and a quick learner. Beauty and brains! Dave was start...ng to fall big time for Julie. If she enjoys sailing, there was no way he’s going to let her get away!Halie left the protection of the jetty and entered the full weather on the lake. The wind speed gauge was showing a steady fifteen knots out of the southwest. The wind was kicking up waves of about a foot with scattered whitecaps. Dave turned the. "Well" were his second words, "What did all of that cost me?"I tried to maintain composure and delivered my rehearsed story."A friend of mine just got her cosmetology license and offered to do it for free" I said with a smile. "All I need to do is to write up a review." Okay then" he added "That's the kind of friend to have"No mention as to how I looked! I wanted to run from the room screaming, but at that moment, my daughter began crying and I had a excuse to leave the room. As I nursed my. Was the ground thawing at last? Judith was completely agreeable on everything, kidding about everything, laughing at everything, laughing at nothing at all. It was as though she'd suddenly feel a laugh come on and couldn't contain it, like a hiccup, looking sheepish at her newly-found hilarity, as though she were experiencing some new and overwhelming state that pulled her every way there is, so that she was forced to laugh at the idiocy of it all. And so she was.Before she took her bath she. I started to help but was shooed away to deal with all the paperwork the opening had generated. Some time later Sheila brought me a cup of coffee in and we sat talking for a while. She had assumed the role of house mother to the others involved and tried to thank me at every occasion. Neither of us had expected the opening to be as good as it was but we both knew that it was only now that the real test started. Could we generate enough interest to maintain everyone's continued involvement?I.