I wondered briefly how it would look after it was rained on. Inside the market I loaded up on storm supplies. Not the real emergency supplies, those w...re in my cabin all the time. As I got into my four-wheel drive truck I saw the sky was getting darker. The weather guy was pretty good this time. It was eight when I got home and the rain was just starting to come down. I parked my truck with the front wheels up on a little rise in front of my cabin. I had built that little rise so rain would run. Am I making myself clear?" he screamed.Miss Richardson was stunned. Holding the receiver in her now-shaking hand she said, "Miss Jennings, Mr. Jackson will take your call. Please do not hang up!" She murmured a small prayer with the last words.Before she had finished speaking, Rick, who had dashed into his office and picked up the phone, was on the line. "Sue, is it really you? Where are you?"The voice at the other end of the line sounded tired and defeated. Speaking as if by rote she said,. .. nevermind. We hadn’t received any reply to the invitation to the Region 3 Finalist Reception yet. You did receive it, right?”“Oh that? I M.T.d it. Figured it for a scam and wasn’t going to go.”“It’s not a scam, I can assure you ... What does ‘M.T.d it’ mean?”“You don’t know M.T. huh? Sam Clemens – you know that was Mark Twain, right? A way-back author, you know? Wrote books? Tom Sawyer? M.T., right? Anyway. He got so much mail that he’d just pile it all on the corner of his desk. When the. It was then I became aware of traffic hazards not encountered when learning to drive around Reading: to wit, Valley folk and Valley sheep!Valley folk are the salt of the earth but they were/are prone to spend a lot of time gossiping when out shopping in the high street. That was the hazard; the talking was usually conducted in the middle of the high street. I had to take much anti-collision avoiding action, the locals unconcerned as traffic swirled around them. Another hazard was when following.